Tomorrow we’re celebrating another colleague’s birthday at work, and he’s not much into sweets. Since it’s a Friday, I’d toyed with the idea of just bringing in a bottle of gin, or perhaps a nice liqueur, but what’s a birthday without treats? Instead of going crazy with cake, I opted for some simple crowd-pleasing cookies,…
Category: Desserts
Cinnamon-Nutmeg Coffee Cake
I have mixed feelings about Daylight Savings Time. On one hand, I really love the long summer nights – there’s something so freeing about having 3 or 4 hours of daylight after work. On the other hand, twice a year I am left feeling like a zombie for a couple weeks while my sleep schedule…
Double Fudge Brownie Bites
Last night was the absolute perfect time to create an ultra chocolatey dessert – my work colleague requested “something chocolate” for her birthday treat, meanwhile, the Vikings were absolutely decimated by their biggest rival, the Green Bay Packers, so I was in a mood to eat my feelings. A few years back there was a…
Double Birthday pt 2 | Ice Cream Birthday Cake
If you’re looking for a cake that’s truly opposite to my mum’s 100% from scratch traditional birthday cake, my brother’s ice cream birthday cake might be just the ticket. As I mentioned before, my brother and mum share the same birthday, and I always make an effort to celebrate them as two distinct occasions, even…
Double Birthday pt 1 | One-Bowl Chocolate Cake with Almond Buttercream
The end of September marks a very busy time in my kitchen – not only is it my mum’s birthday, but she shares the very same day with my brother! When we were kids, most of the time my brother’s birthday overshadowed my mum’s. If he wasn’t having a party with his friends, he at…
Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
It was one of those nights again – we had a relatively light dinner, and were all cuddled up on the couch watching Downton when the sweets craving hit us. Of course there wasn’t any junk in the house, and while fruit is my usual go-to sugar source, we both agreed we needed something a…
Ginger Pear Blueberry Crisp
Remember that fridge and freezer cleanout I was talking about? Turns out there were even more mediocre pears left (I guess that’s the downside of Costco, when it’s bad, it’s really bad) so I was thinking I’d try to repeat the success of that lower sugar pear crisp, but then I found a pint of…
100 Calorie Vegan Whole-Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies for Two
As much as I bake, I really don’t get to eat as many sweets as one might think – I make small batches, and look for occasions to bake for others whenever possible. Usually this means I don’t have any baked goods in the house when my husband or I want them most, and honestly,…
Chocolate Cherry Fudge Cookies
Last night we were cleaning out our refrigerator in preparation for veering off of our regular meal plan for the long holiday weekend, when I came across a handful of organic cherries. They were still perfectly good, but didn’t look quite as plump as they once did, so I figured they’d be a good candidate…
Kirkland Old Fashioned Chocolate Chip Cookies
Do you guys love Costco as much as I do? I was already on board when I learned about their employment practices, and then when they announced their sustainability practices I was 100% sold. Lately though, as they expand their vegan, organic, and fair trade selection, our love affair has gotten way more serious. My…
Pear Crisp
Last weekend we stocked up on pears for something a little different to spice up our lunches and late night snacks. Sadly, they looked much better than they tasted. Not wanting to let them go to waste, I whipped up a nice lower-sugar fresh pear crisp. Dessert in our house is a complicated topic –…
Zucchini Bread
Well, it’s that time of the year again – we’re most of the way through summer and it’s zucchini mania. I honestly have a refrigerator full of the stuff. I hadn’t even realized there were so many out in my garden until our neighbor pointed out a particularly huge one that she said was perhaps…
Vegan Wedding Cupcakes
This is a historic weekend for Minneapolis – Thursday, August 1st was the first day same sex marriage was legal in our state (and in commemoration, starting at midnight, our Mayor performed 46 wedding ceremonies in 6 hours!) It’s amazing to me that just two years ago, we were fighting tooth and nail to be…
Fudge Brownies with Cookie Dough Frosting
Yesterday we had a double birthday celebration at my office, and my coworker was bringing in bacon chocolate rice krispie bars, so I knew I had a lot to compete with. Initially my plan was to go with a classic chocolate cake, which led to fudge brownies, which led to fudge brownie cupcakes, and if…
Peanut Butter Cup Bars
I live in a very closely knit community, and in the summertime, that translates to neighborhood potlucks at least once a month. People still talk about the hamburger cupcakes I brought to my first potluck in 2008, so last night I spent about an hour going back and forth about what to bring this time…