What to do with all that leftover pie crust dough

So it was Pi day recently. March 14th, to be precise. To celebrate, I made pi. Or pie, rather. Pies, actually, two of them. And you’d think that this post would be about said pies, but no. It’s about what I did with the leftover dough from making said pies. Growing up, I ate these [...]

Waffles are the Breakfast of the Gods

I heart waffles. I can never make *just* waffles either. I always gotta be dumping stuff in them. Waffles are probably best made from scratch, but more likely then not I’ll make mine with Bisquick. I have waffley needs that must be met in a very immediate fashion, and Bisquick is often the easiest solution. [...]

Chocolate Pecan Pie, Courtesy of Emeril

Chocolate pecan pie is the glorious merging of ingredients into a delicious fatty amalgamation of awesome. Regular pecan pie is already an incredible thing, but chocolate just makes it even better. I don’t have a favorite chocolate pecan pie recipe (yet, at least…) so when I decided to make one recently, I just pulled the [...]

Celebrate The Holidays With Flaccid Peppermint Oreo Mint Bark!

So mint bark is awesome. It’s easy to make plus significantly cheaper then buying it at some fancy chocolate shop. And, if you have slow friends, you can convince them that you chopped down a mint tree, harvesting it’s delicious bark just so they could have an extra special gift. On a related note, it [...]

Super Easy Chocolate Pumpkin Cookies That Vaguely Resemble Brownies

So in the grand scheme of Putting Things Off Until After The Last Minute, I will write about pumpkin cookies now that Thanksgiving is officially over. Oops! But never fear, pumpkin items are meant to, nay demand to be enjoyed year-round, as often as possible. My initial intent was to make some pumpkin spice cookies [...]

I can crush through marzipan (and mandalhoernchen!) like nobody’s business!

Marzipan is truly the Crushed Nut Confection Of The Gods. Not those namby-pamby American marzipan candies that are all sugary and look like fruit, either. I’m talking seriously awesome European marzipan. Yes, maybe that makes me a marzipan elitist, but I don’t care. Sometimes it’s necessary to be an elitist when certain things are significantly [...]

Boston Cream Pie, aka Pudding Saves The Day!

Boston cream pie is so freaking good. You New Englanders have no idea how good you have it, with your pie trees and all. Living in Colorado, we are not so fortunate as to have access to pie trees (too dry out here or something). So when I want a Boston cream pie, I’ve gotta [...]

Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Eggrolls, Delicious Even When Half Raw

So those eggrolls I made recently? Lots of wrappers left after the filling was all used up. Your average pack of eggroll wrappers can make far more eggrolls then my scrawny arms are capable of rolling in an evening. Conveniently, they store quite well in the freezer, ready to be taken out when the next [...]

Guest Post: Good Old-Fashioned Chocolate Chip Cookies

(Here’s another post by Julie, yay!) It must be done. These chocolate chip cookies are just too good to keep a secret any longer. These cookies have been passed down the generations from Drew’s and my grandmother. They’re made with sugar, brown sugar, Crisco, eggs, flour, vanilla, salt, baking soda, oatmeal, chocolate chips, and optional [...]

Hooray For Chocolate Cookies!

This last week has been exceedingly busy, meaning I haven’t had time to sit down and write a proper post. Alas, only time for improper posts. In any case, here are some cookies to tide you over in the meantime: Chocolate cake mix cookies, with chocolate chips and pecans added in for good measure. The [...]

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