Category: Desserts
Recipes for cookies, cakes, brownies, fudge and other treats that are easy to make yet still impressive
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Jack Skellington-Inspired Hot Cocoa Bombs
If you want to dress up as Jack, Sally, or even Zero from The Nightmare Before Christmas this Halloween, there’s no shortage of off-the-rack costumes you can buy from, well, just about anywhere (from Amazon to Hot Topic to Walmart). But if you’re really looking to go all out this year—or simply host an epic…
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Cake Mix Brownies with a Cheesecake Swirl
I’m a sucker for a good cake mix hack, be it adding instant pudding mix to make a cake moister, turning it into an extra-pillowy banana bread or making over-the-top monster cookies. So, when I saw Tasty’s cake mix brownie recipe, I had to try it out. With a slight adaptation (ahem, cheesecake) and minor…
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Frosting
When the world feels uncertain, we seek comfort in everything: cozy blankets, heart-to-heart conversations, even snacks. And when you really want to just eat your feelings, there’s no better treat than this chocolate chip cookie dough frosting. It’s based on Baked By Melissa’s recipe, found in Cakes by Melissa (aka my go-to for every birthday…
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Pastelitos, aka the Best Super Bowl Dessert for Buccaneers Fans
Certain foods are synonymous with Tampa Bay: Cubanos, Bloomin’ Onions (Tampa is the birthplace of Outback, after all), grouper sandwiches, strawberry shortcake straight from Plant City. They’re must-haves when you’re in the Bay, but there’s one treat that doesn’t get nearly enough attention, and it really, truly should. I’m talking about pastelitos de guayaba y…
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How to Make Baby Yoda-inspired Cupcakes
Wait, so you’re not hosting a watch party for one and making all kinds of Grogu-inspired treats every Friday, when a new episode of The Mandalorian hits Disney+? Huh. Strange. Well, these Baby Yoda cupcakes may just convince you to start. They’re ridiculously cute—and also ridiculously easy to make (like maybe even easier than the…
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How to Make Candice Kumai’s ‘Selena and Chef’ Recipes
Just when it seemed like we’d all binged every show created on the planet during quarantine (doesn’t Tiger King seem like a lifetime ago?), HBOMax debuted the gem that is Selena and Chef. The series, filmed during isolation, features singer/actress Selena Gomez learning to cook via video chat with a different chef each week. Only…
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How to Make Winnie The Pooh-Inspired Cupcakes
During the first few weeks of quarantine, I got really into decorating pop culture-inspired cupcakes. To the point that some of my friends probably contemplated staging an intervention, but it was my small attempt at bringing a little joy to people’s feeds—while also entertaining myself in my downtime. That’s why you’re suddenly seeing so many…
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These Sesame Street-Inspired Cupcakes Are the Perfect Afternoon Project
Keeping little kids entertained can be an exercise in endurance. Your mind’s constantly spinning, trying to come up with ways to entertain that aren’t screentime, screentime, screentime (or involve endless cleanup). These Sesame Street-inspired cupcakes are a perfect afternoon activity—or birthday surprise—to keep the kids busy. Plus, they’ll eat up some of the mess, so…
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Mini Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Loaves
It all started, as so many of my over-the-top recipes over the years have, with a ridiculous bout of wordplay: SpongeBread SquarePan. I had started a pop culture cupcake-decorating party for one amid all of this social distancing, taking requests from Instagram followers to create cupcakes that looked like the characters from shows we were…
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Spiced Rum Chocolate Chip Cookies
It all started when I ran out of vanilla extract. I’ve always been a firm believer that good-quality vanilla’s the secret to a killer chocolate chip cookie. (Well, that and plenty of brown sugar to get that caramel-y flavor.) When I ran out late Friday night, I wasn’t in the mood to load up the…
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Chewy Chocolate Toffee Cookies
These chewy, chocolate toffee cookies use Heath bar bits to give the fudgy treats a little crunch. You can’t mess up this recipe.
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Birthday Cake Monster Cookies
This whole experiment started because I bought one too many cake mixes. I know, I know — who does that, and when is it ever a problem?! The thing is, since it’s just Nate and me at home, there isn’t much of a need for an entire vanilla cake. Plus, I’m less of a cake…
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