It’s hard to know what you need in your pantry and what you don’t. Below is a list of 12 essential baker’s pantry ingredients and a list of bonus items if you have extra space. Click HERE for a free printable checklist of the baker’s essential pantry ingredients. A Baker’s Must Have Pantry Items: All-Purpose Flour–Like the name suggests, this … Read More
Peanut Butter Whiskey Truffles
Peanut butter whiskey truffles are creamy, chocolatey ganache truffles spiked with a healthy dose of peanut butter whiskey! Peanut butter and chocolate. Two of my favorite things combined together to make one decadent truffle. If you’ve never tried peanut butter whiskey, you should give it a go. It has all the fire of whiskey with a gentle sweetness and peanut … Read More
How To Read A Recipe
Understanding how to read a recipe correctly is the first step in becoming the kind of baker you’ve always wanted to be. Or at least the kind of baker whose cookies don’t taste or look like a pile of hot garbage. I don’t know about the rest of you, but the women in my family love to share recipes with … Read More
Why use white food coloring?
I used to work as a cookie decorator for one of those bakeries that makes cookie bouquets. I picked up a lot of decorating tricks there and one of my favorites is adding white food coloring to your frosting base. It didn’t make sense to me at first. Especially when we were using royal icing which was pretty white to … Read More
Cookie Dough Pretzel Bites
Cookie dough pretzel bites are spoonfuls of edible chocolate chip cookie dough smashed between salty pretzels and dipped in creamy dark chocolate. Basically the perfect desert. My grandmother always said it was important to mix your salty with your sweet. Seemed like strange nutritional advice, but in regards to dessert-Grandma knows what she’s talking about! These cookie dough pretzel bites … Read More
Edible Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Soft edible chocolate chip cookie dough that’s made without eggs so it’s safe to eat straight out of the bowl. Raise your hand if your favorite part about making cookies is eating snitches of the dough? Yeah, me too. Back in the day, a friend of mine and I would team make a batch of cookie dough during a commercial … Read More
Soft Sour Cream Sugar Cookie Bars
Soft sour cream sugar cookie bars are all the flavor of Lofthouse style sugar cookies without all the hassle of chilling, rolling, and cutting. Pretty much everybody loves sugar cookies. What’s not to love? Soft fluffy cookies slathered with a dollop of creamy buttercream. The only problem? They take FOREVER to make. With the chilling and the rolling and the … Read More
5 Ingredient Red Velvet Cookies
These 5 ingredient red velvet cookies take less than a half hour to go from the bowl straight to your mouth! No mixer required! Ever since my friend introduced me to the wonderful world of cake mix cookies aka “cakies” I have been hooked. She used to make them for us back in college (maybe even high school? I’ve been … Read More
Tropical Overnight Oats with Coconut Milk and Chia
Tropical overnight oats are the perfect quick easy and healthy breakfast for those of us on the go! Whelp, it’s still very wintery here in the Midwest. And I still wish I was maybe somewhere warmer with a beach. So we’re going to channel tropical flavors again today to take our minds off the cold and snow. Plus, if you’re … Read More
Cinnamon Raisin Bread
Cinnamon raisin bread is studded with plump raisins and swirls of cinnamon and sugar. It’s perfect slathered with salted butter for a quick breakfast! What I love about cinnamon raisin bread is that it’s all the flavor of cinnamon rolls with less hassle. Plus, homemade bread is more fun to make, tastes better, and healthier for you than store bought … Read More