Homemade Kahlua and Vanilla Sugar
A white Russian is one of my favorite non-whiskey cocktails, and for good reason: they’re delicious. However, I make mine with homemade Kahlua made with vanilla sugar, which sounds bougie for an ingredient within an ingredient. I swear it’s actually an important pantry staple once you make it for the first time and begin incorporating […]
Read More
Homemade Ice Cream (Strawberry Mint Basil)
Welcome back to my blog! I’m super stoked for today’s recipe, HOMEMADE ICE CREAM! In the video above, I demonstrate how to make one of my favorite recipes for ice cream, strawberry mint basil. It’s delicious. But in the recipe below, I describe the “theory” of making ice cream, complete with flavoring the base, churned […]
Read MoreTraditional Cheesecake with Ginger Snap Crust
Welcome back to my kitchen! I have lots of extra time to produce content around my sudden joblessness, so I thought I should make a grand celebration of my return to content creation with my recipe for cheesecake. Also, if you like the content that I produce and want to help me pay my bills […]
Read More
Pumpkin Bread with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
What do we want more than anything else during the fall? Pumpkin-flavored everything, of course! With that in mind, I developed a new recipe for my pumpkin bread, and topped it off with a complementary maple cream cheese frosting. But before we dive into our recipes, there is one other thing we should all want […]
Read More
Pumpkin Pie with Homemade Crust
The holidays are coming, the holidays are coming! Including my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving! I’m starting to publish recipes for some of my best holiday dishes, beginning with today’s post for my gluten-free pumpkin pie. This recipe makes two pies, because a week’s worth of leftovers would be nothing without a week’s worth of pie to […]
Read MoreBest Ginger Snaps Ever
Sorry this post took forever! As soon as I announced into the universe that I’d have my ginger snap post up in time for Christmas, the universe responded back with plots to thwart my every effort in attaining that goal. But I did manage to get it posted before the end of the year, so […]
Read More
Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
So I’ve posted my chocolate chip cookie recipe before. But that was also before I started baking as a cottage food vendor at the local markets, and before I started baking by weight. I decided rather than update my previous post again, I’d draft a whole new post from scratch, just like when I bake […]
Read More
Thanksgiving 2017 Masterpost
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! That’s right, Thanksgiving! Okay, so I’m probably one of the few people who actually enjoys preparing the Thanksgiving meal. I think it’s the best week ever when I can kick everyone out of the kitchen and just be in my element. It’s almost therapeutic. Over the years, […]
Read More
Vegan Chocolate Cake, Gluten-free as Always
Yes! I finally found the time to update the blog! Today we’re getting into my vegan chocolate cake recipe, which is a dark chocolate cake with tofu and olive oil. If you’re a soy-free vegan, substitute 2 eggs’ worth of your favorite egg substitute for the tofu. Now before something comes up that requires my […]
Read More