This moist, tender ricotta cake is loaded with dark chocolate chunks and topped with pistachio-oatmeal-brown sugar crumbles. It's perfect for breakfast, brunch, or dessert! I know I just posted s'mores bars on Monday, and now I'm back with another dessert--also with chocolate, no less. It's a ...
Homemade Dried Citrus Wheels
When I was growing up, I had a friend who's house smelled amazing. It was like cinnamon and apples, but also sort of smoky and woodsy. Looking back, I'm pretty sure it was a Glade Plugin or something, but at the time I thought her mom was a homemaking genius. I am not a homemaking ...
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 ...
Orange and Brown Butter Sugar Cookies
For a long time, I thought sugar cookies were sort of pointless. Where were the chocolate chunks? The toasted pecans? The sprinkles? I'd even take some dried fruit, if all else failed. But a plain sugar cookie with nothing in it? That just seemed...boring. But sometimes the simplest ...
Vegan Carrot Orange Sherbet
Let's get something out of the way right off the bat here. I called it "sherbert" for years. Did you? No shame. Evidently, it's one of the most common mispronunciations out there. While we're at it, let's clear up the difference between sorbet and sherbet, too. Sorbet is fruit and sugar. Sherbet ...