After success with using grocery store chocolate chip cookies as a mix-in for Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream, I decided I could do something similar with a container of grocery story sugar cookies left over from the same party. This time I thought Mexican Hot Chocolate would be a good base for the…
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream
A guest had brought over some grocery store chocolate chip cookies when we had a party. The cookies weren’t great to eat on their own, so pretty much the whole container was left. I can’t bear to throw food away, so I thought they might work as an ice cream mix-in. I decided to try…
Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Banana Bread
There are a ton of banana bread recipes out there, but I’m not big on banana flavored things. So it took quite a bit of tinkering for me to hit on a banana bread guessipe that I actually crave and make regularly. The combo of white and brown sugar gives it extra depth of flavor,…
Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream
My husband came home with a package of peanut butter cups and said, “I thought maybe you could use these for something… like ice cream.” Subtle 😉 But I couldn’t deny peanut butter cups make a great ice cream mix-in. I could have just chopped them up and folded them into a vanilla ice cream…
Roasted Pistachio Ice Cream
I recently had a fantastic pistachio ice cream at a local Middle Eastern restaurant. Since then I found myself constantly thinking about pistachio ice cream, so I decided I better figure out how to make some. I searched around for some recipes to use as a starting point, but found that they all call for…
Orange Blueberry Cake
My friends gave me a ton of oranges from their tree. When we couldn’t bear the thought of eating another orange, I had a thought – if lemon cake is good, why not orange cake? I also had some blueberries from the local community garden. My first Orange Blueberry Cake was entirely consumed in one…
Girl Scout Cookies n Cream Ice Cream
It’s Girl Scout Cookie season! I went to a party and ended up coming home with boxes of Do-Si-Dos, Thin Mints, and Trefoils. Having already consumed many cookies, I decided to use some of the cookies to make Girl Scout Cookie ice cream. Cookies n Cream is my favorite childhood ice cream, so what could…
Chewy Fudge Brownies
Cookbook Club – Texture Over Taste February’s cookbook was Texture Over Taste by Joshua Weissman. Weissman divided the recipes into 6 texture chapters – Crunchy, Chewy, Aerated, Creamy, Fluid, and Fatty. To explore all the textures we experienced, go to my Cookbook Club site. For now – my dish! When it comes to brownies, some…
Key Lime Cake
I had a big container of sour cream, I had key limes, and I had a dinner party I needed to bring a dessert to. It was an intimate dinner party for 4, so I thought there would be leftovers of this Key Lime Cake, but I ended up having to make another one the…
Cream Soda
Despite Cream Soda not being the most popular of soda flavors, my boyfriend and I love it. We have been on a quest for several years to find the best Cream Soda, buying it anytime we find a brand we haven’t tried yet. Then it occurred to us to try making it ourselves. Not to…
Aztec Chocolate
Cookbook Club – Tasting History After many months of missing Cookbook Club because well, life happens and schedules get busy, I was ecstatic to make it to the October event! We used Max Miller’s Tasting History, which he started as a YouTube channel – sharing historical recipes from around the world so successfully that he…
Passion Fruit Ice Cream
I’m thrilled it’s passion fruit season again, and thanks to this year’s heavy rains the vines in the neighborhood are heavy with fruit! So of course I had to tinker with an ice cream flavored with one of my favorite fruits. Many of the passion fruit ice creams I’ve tasted hardly had any passion fruit…