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…
Category: Desserts
Recipes for cookies, cakes, brownies, fudge and other treats that are easy to make yet still impressive
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…
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…
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.…
I have a tendency to bake through whatever’s on my mind (grief, nostalgia, sheer ridiculousness), so as I started researching everything that’s on the ballot in this presidential election, my…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…