What if a marble pound cake and a marble rye got married? Deep thoughts, guys. Last week, I was emailing with my friend Meredith about home decorating. She has such a great sense of style, and I...don't. I have a very specific creative skill set, and that is food. Outside of the kitchen, I'm at ...
Chocolate Cherry Goat Cheese Truffles (Gluten-Free)
Let's hear it for Galentine's Day! ? ? ? When I was in high school, every year around Valentine's Day there was a carnation sale for local charities. The flowers were $1 each, and you bought them in advance and "sent" them to other students--your boyfriend or girlfriend, your ...
Healthy Chocolate Orange Ricotta Mousse
Gluten-free chocolate orange ricotta mousse with less than 300 calories. Pull up a spoon! When I was in graduate school getting my MFA, one of my professors recommended that I read The Woman Who Cut of Her Leg at the Maidstone Club by Julia Slavin. In particular, she wanted me to read the short ...
Butterscotch Blondies with Chardonnay
These are bombshell blondies. I bake a lot for other people: my toddler, my friends, my family, my coworkers. But every once in a while, I take a "treat yo self" moment to make something just for me. Ever since I developed the recipe for my cookbook, these blondies have been a ...
Cornbread Coffee Cake
Are there two more beautiful words together than coffee and cake? I honestly can't think of any. I'm pretty much always in the mood for one or the other, or both. Let's talk specifically about this coffee cake, which is a mashup of two of my favorite things. First up, cornbread. When I ...
Chocolate Espresso Pecan Toffee
Somebody needs to come over and save me from this candy. It's dangerous. Like, deep, dark, and ever so slightly bitter dangerous. We're sort of obsessed with Ben & Jerry's Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch ice cream over here. Only, really what I'm obsessed with is digging out all the insanely ...
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Brownie Pie
The expression "easy as pie" has always struck me as somewhat peculiar. I've never found pie all that simple. When I was writing The Boozy Baker, the pies and tarts chapter was by far the most difficult. First there was the matter of the crust: rolling it out, transferring it to the baking dish in ...
Healthy Cranberry Orange Kefir Cake
I tried kefir once, 10 years ago, when another waitress at the wine bar I worked at brought some in and offered me a sip. I hated it, and for the next decade I never gave it a second thought. But tastes evolve, or maybe she just had a really gross kind? Because two weeks ago, standing in the ...
Crispy Chocolate Bark with Pumpkin Seeds and Cranberries
Last year was Owen's first time trick-or-treating. It took him all of about three seconds to realize that EVERYONE WAS GIVING AWAY CANDY and he was off and running down the block, his general shyness and fear of strangers forgotten. It really was a joy to experience the holiday again though his ...
Extra Thick Sweet Potato Hot Chocolate (Paleo, Vegan & Gluten-Free)
I like my hot chocolate thick as cream, so it coats the back of my throat, and it's debatable whether I should use a spoon to eat it. There's just one problem: I don't actually want to drink a mug of heavy cream. So how do you make hot chocolate that is ultra-decadent without being ultra-caloric ...
