sweet inspiration & fun baking ideas

Chip Chip Hooray! Chocolate Chip Confetti Cookies! Get in my mouth. Right now. It’s cookie time! Okay, anytime is cookie time in my book. How about you? I made these [...] Sunday, May 19, 2013

Rainbow Bright Cupcakes March is here and this weekend I thought I would work on something cute and sweet for St. Patrick’s Day. Shamrocks, leprechauns, pots of gold, [...] Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Awards Night Statue Cookies Happy Saturday and day before the Oscars. Whose gonna be watching Sunday night? I wanted to re-share these fun sugar cookie statues I made a few years [...] Saturday, February 23, 2013

Play Food I made some tiny sugar cookie sugar cookies for you. Tee-niny! Yes, I love little and I kinda like to play with my food… But I’m sure you know [...] Monday, January 28, 2013

Peppermint Candy Sugar Cookies Happy National Cookie Day! I thought I’d remind just you in case you needed an excuse to enjoy a cookie today. These bite-size sugar cookies are [...] Tuesday, December 4, 2012

My Kind of Stuffing I feel like I should be baking Thanksgivingy, cinnamony, pumpkiny treats right now. But today just called for some serious chocolate chip cookies. And [...] Monday, November 19, 2012

Homemade Oreos I made some cookies yesterday from one of the cookbooks I’ve been wanting to dig into. Home. Made. Oreos. And all Halloween like with orange creme [...] Monday, September 17, 2012

A Kitchen Assistent I’ve been playing with something new in the kitchen. Have you seen one of these before? It’s unique looking don’t you think. And big. [...] Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Beary cute macarons I finally decided to try to make macarons again. I made these last weekend as a possibility for Jenny’s virtual baby shower and halfway through I [...] Monday, August 27, 2012

Jacques Torres’ Chocolatey Chocolate Chip Cookies These have been on my To-Bake List for a while now. Ever since my mom emailed me the link to this recipe and video from an episode of The Chew. They are [...] Monday, August 13, 2012

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. Is there anything better? Well, actual chocolate chip cookies would rank right up there I suppose. But really, how many [...] Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Cookie Molds I ordered some cookie molds a while back. Like two years back I think. And this weekend I finally used them. I didn’t use them to imprint the [...] Monday, January 30, 2012

Heathy Cookies Want some heathy cookies? Nope, that’s not a typo. Healthy would be nice, but …… These are all Heath. I bought this bag of milk chocolaty [...] Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Chocolate Candy Cookies I made some peanut butter cookies the other day and topped them off with Hershey’s Kisses. Yum and yummer! You know the kind I’m talking [...] Monday, December 12, 2011

Gingerbread Heads The season of giving will be upon us in just a few short days. I love December. People start baking and sharing sweets with friends and family … even [...] Monday, November 28, 2011

Comfort in Cookies I love having cookies around. Whether I need a little pick me up or just a quick sugar fix. Having cookies handy is comforting. And knowing I can have [...] Monday, November 7, 2011

Chewy Chocolate Meringues I want to show you this new book from Williams-Sonoma. It’s filled with delicious photographs and tons of recipes including … Pretzels. Pop [...] Monday, September 26, 2011

Homemade Graham Crackers I ventured into crackers this weekend. Golden brown graham crackers. Small ones of course. These are only about 2 inches square. Combine flour, dark [...] Monday, September 5, 2011

Triple Chip Cookies I was in the mood for some cookies this weekend. Feel good cookies. Comfort cookies. Something simple and delicious and quick to fix. I used three kinds [...] Sunday, August 21, 2011

Super Bowl Sweets The Super Bowl will be on in a few hours so I thought I would go ahead and share some sweet treats worth cheering for. That is if you are a Pittsburgh [...] Sunday, February 6, 2011