What feels like a million years ago I made these mini cupcakes for Natalie’s birthday. They were basically her birthday present last year in mini cupcake form. Except without the cookie dough component. Dammit. I realized too late that I probably should’ve filled some of the cupcakes with cookie dough, and I hope she’ll forgive [...]

I had this brief moment of panic yesterday when I realized I hadn’t made anything special for Halloween. I considered ditching my friend’s party last night, sending the husband out by himself to deliver the message that I needed to stay home to make homemade versions of candy bars, like Twix or Whatchamacallits, so I [...]

In addition to lying in bed at night dreaming up ice cream flavors, I’ve now been contemplating cake pops as well, how frickin adorable they are, how the woman who popularized them is so ingenious. I’ve never considered myself a “crafty” person in the kitchen, although I did make some penis-shaped cookies for a bris once [...]

In the midst of making this cake, I realized that I’d never made a layer cake from scratch before. How embarrassing! And it was so impressive looking and fun to frost that I started thinking I have got to do this more often. Why on earth not? It wasn’t until I actually cut into the [...]

And it was at this moment that I started snickering and called the husband into the kitchen to ask him what these looked like, and he took a cupcake and put it under his butt and made a farting noise and presented it to me and we both started cracking up and I named these [...]

I never knew it was weird to spread butter on frosted strawberry Pop-Tarts. I don’t know how we got on the subject, we must’ve been talking about what we ate for breakfast as kids, but the husband was like what? You put butter on Pop-Tarts? He seemed shocked and disgusted, and I was suddenly self-conscious. Wasn’t that normal? [...]

These cupcakes absolutely require an exclamation mark because they make me so happy and excited!!! They are a long-standing tradition. When I was growing up, my mom would make them every single year for St. Patrick’s Day (and still does). I thought they were the coolest things because they were green inside, of course (and not [...]

So I realize that “muffin cakes” seems kind of redundant…either that or oxymoronic, but what I’m trying to get across here is that these were supposed to be cupcakes but were really more like muffins. A muffin-cupcake hybrid, if you will. Denser and cakier than cupcakes, and maybe less sweet? (Ummmm, I was pretty drunk [...]

The only things better than warm, buttery frosted maple scones fresh from the oven for dessert are warm, buttery frosted maple scones fresh from the oven for breakfast. I know this because (are you ready for this?) I made these babies for dessert last night and again for breakfast this morning. But before you call [...]