So I’ve been dying to try an olive oil cake for some time now. The concept of olive oil being a main ingredient for a cake just baffled me and I was curious to see if it would taste like dipping angel food cake into a dish of olive oil and calling it a day….
Irish Soda bread
Well it’s that time of year again ST PATRICK’S DAY!! Here in the northeast (mainly New York and Boston) St Patrick’s Day is sacred. There are so many Irish folk around these parts that you can’t go a few blocks without seeing an Irish pub or in Boston’s case any Celtics anything. But I’m not…
Raspberry Filled Cupcakes
When my friend SKC asked me to make cupcakes for Valentine’s Day I was intrigued (ok not her real name, but it’s what she goes by on her site so that’s what I’ll call her here). When she asked me to make cupcakes with a blood red filling I was all like yasssssss. And when…
White Chocolate Lavender Cookies
Happy “almost” Valentine’s Day! This year I made a reservation at a french restaurant for our Valentine’s Day dinner and I’m SO looking forward to it. Tai and I rarely go out to eat dinner, mainly because I’m cooking for the blog and because it’s so darn expensive to go out in NYC. But…
Double Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies
It’s that time of year again, Valentine’s Day! Can’t believe it’s my second Valentine’s Day with Tai, which also means we’ve almost been living together for a year. Ok that sounds all cutesy, but this time last year the struggle was real. We had decided that we wanted to move in together because we…
Marmalade Cake
I’d recently began looking through an old cookbook that I found when I was cleaning out my grandmother’s house. It is the Antrim Bicentennial Cookbook made by Antrim community members in 1977 to commemorate our town. It has been really interesting to see these family recipes, many of them from people I know. My…
Grapefruit Bars
Winter isn’t known for it’s variety or abundance of fresh fruit, but it does have an amazing crop of citrus. I’ve been eating a lot of grapefruit recently and decided to come up with a twist on a lemon bar to create Grapefruit Bars. It looks and tastes similar, but is overall sweeter without sacrificing…
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
This is my first holiday season as a food blogger and I am BEYOND excited because I love all things Christmas and holidays. I also love the season because I like to give back. Each year I participate in Operation Santa which is a charity where kids in need write letters to Santa and holiday helpers…
Nutella Stuffed Meringues
I’ll admit that I struggled with this recipe for a long time. I had never made a meringue before and soon learned how tricky they are to make. After 4 really horrible batches of cookies, I finally found a formula and some good tips for making Nutella Stuffed Meringues. First tip, make sure…
Snickerdoodles
I have fond memories of my Mom making snickerdoodles during the holiday season when I was a little kid. We would always leave out cookies for Santa and these were a great alternative to sugar cookies (as kids we would take hours to decorate just a few cookies). Santa (aka my dad) would eat all…