After two years of research and 6 rounds of tweaking, I’ve finally perfected my chocolate chip cookie recipe. (That statement should have a million exclamation points after it.) When I first began my “Quest for the Best: Chocolate Chip Cookie” project, my plan was to find the best chocolate chip cookie recipe online. As the experiment progressed, I realized I should probably take all of the knowledge I was gaining to create my own frankenstein recipe. But to be honest, I figured I would find a recipe that was perfect and it wouldn’t be necessary. Well, I should have known myself better. As I continued to try more recipes, my expectations for the perfect chocolate chip cookie grew and grew until I knew I had no option but to create it myself. [Read more…]
Browned Butter Nutella Slice and Bake Cookies
If we go way back in my origin story, we could probably say this blog happened because of Christmas cookies. That’s where my love of baking came from, which led to my love of cooking, and then cookbooks, and then food blogs, and now here we are. While I don’t know if my mom would call herself a “baker,” she always made sure we had plenty of homemade cookies for Christmas. My brothers and I would always help with the cut-out sugar cookies, fighting over who got to use the Santa cookie cutter, while my mom yelled at us for eating too much dough and Jesse and I debated the perfect sprinkle-to-cookie ratio. [Read more…]
Vanilla Bean Waffles
Move over, pancakes – you’ve been replaced. Waffles have stolen the place in my heart that used to be heavily occupied by pancakes. (Sorry, Dad! I’ll still make you some.) [Read more…]