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Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies
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Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies

Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies are the perfect way to brighten up your day with their sunny flavor and fragrant aroma. And the best part? Making these melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies is as easy as “one, two, three!” Read on and I’ll show you how shortbread cookies follow a classic baking ratio. Just add a smidge of…

Tequila Gimlet

Tequila Gimlet

The Tequila Gimlet is made with tequila, fresh lime juice, and agave in a cocktail ratio that is classic for the sour family of cocktails. It’s a balanced sipper that’s perfect alongside chips and guacamole or your favorite spicy meal. Read on to learn all about why this tequila recipe is a gimlet and not…

Lemon Bars with Graham Cracker Crust
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Lemon Bars with Graham Cracker Crust

Elevate your Lemon Bars with Graham Cracker Crust instead of the traditional shortbread. Just mix graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and butter to make a bottom crust, top the graham cracker cookie crust with lemon curd, and bake until firm. Read on for all the detailed tips and tricks for making the lemon curd and the…

Aperol Soda

Aperol Soda

The Aperol Soda is a simple highball cocktail made with Aperol and soda water. It’s essentially an Aperol spritz without prosecco and the perfect low-calorie thirst-quencher for hot, hot days. Read more to learn all about Aperol and other Aperol cocktails, tips and tricks for making an Aperol and soda, and some suggestions for how…

Blue Mojito

Blue Mojito

The Blue Mojito is a stunning twist on a classic cocktail. Like its namesake, the blue mojito is crafted with a blend of rum, lime juice, sugar syrup, and mint topped with bubbly water. But this blue curaçao cocktail has a color that will make you dream of crystal-clear waters and sandy beaches. So read…

Indoor S’mores: Five Minutes, Five Ways

Indoor S’mores: Five Minutes, Five Ways

Introducing Indoor S’mores, the classic combination of toasted marshmallows, melted chocolate, and graham crackers that you can enjoy in under 5 minutes in the cozy confines of your own home. Whether you microwave s’mores, use your kitchen blow torch for a single serving dessert, or just bake chocolate and marshmallow cookie bars, these ideas for…

Blueberry Chocolate Chip Muffins
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Blueberry Chocolate Chip Muffins

These Blueberry Chocolate Chip Muffins unite two of your favorite muffins in a combination that’s a surprise for your taste buds. Moist and fluffy, with bursts of tangy blueberries and pockets of rich chocolate in every bite, these muffins whip up in under 30 minutes. Blueberry chocolate chip muffins are perfect for breakfast, brunch, or…

Classic Cocktails and Bartending Basics
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Classic Cocktails and Bartending Basics

Are you looking to learn to make classic cocktails and frustrated by promises of Top 10 Cocktails that fail to deliver? Tired of mixologists who boast about easy to make cocktail recipes and in the next breath use obscure ingredients you don’t have at home? Read on for a simple schematic that shows cocktail families…

Baking Ratios: From Cakes to Cookies
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Baking Ratios: From Cakes to Cookies

Once you’ve mastered the basics of baking, you’re probably looking to try new things in new ways. Learning a few baking ratios is all you need to free yourself from recipes and bake like a pro. There’s no magic here. Using these baking ratios to create your own cakes and cookies is about knowing what…

52 Weeks of Cocktails Challenge: 2024
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52 Weeks of Cocktails Challenge: 2024

The 52 weeks of cocktails challenge continues for its third year! This cocktail challenge was suggested as I wrapped up the 2021 reddit 52 weeks of baking challenge with my chocolate peppermint spritz cookies. I dabbled in cocktails in 2021. However, it wasn’t until I started making cocktails at home every week that I Iearned…

Mini Blueberry Pies

Mini Blueberry Pies

Mini Blueberry Pies make the perfect bite-sized dessert for your next dinner party or holiday get-together. If you use store-bought mini pie crusts, the blueberry pie filling is super quick and easy. Or you could be someone who wants to be adventurous and make your own mini pie crust shells for these blueberry mini pies,…

Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies

These Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies are a smaller version of my favorite soft and chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe. They’re made with brown butter and mostly dark brown sugar to give you a rich, butterscotch cookie flavor. Mini desserts like mini blueberry pies, mini banana bread muffins, and these mini chocolate chip cookies are the…

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Recipe Index

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Blackberry Vodka Sour

Blackberry Vodka Sour

This Blackberry Vodka Sour uses blackberry simple syrup in a classic vodka sour formula for a well-balanced cocktail with bright flavors of lemon and blackberry. But why stop there? Add an egg white, and you’ve got smooth mouthfeel that makes sipping this blackberry sour even easier. Read on to learn all about the formula in…

15 Types of Breads for Sandwiches
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15 Types of Breads for Sandwiches

When you’re a sandwich lover, you know that different types of breads for sandwiches make the whole experience. Pastrami goes on on rye bread. Italian meatballs go on a sub roll. But regardless of whether your sandwich calls for a classic white bread, a hearty whole wheat, a pita pocket, or something more adventurous, making…

1-2-3-4 Heart-Shaped Cake with Rose Buttercream

1-2-3-4 Heart-Shaped Cake with Rose Buttercream

This 1-2-3-4 Heart Shaped Cake with Rose Buttercream is a single layer, classic butter cake baked in a heart-shaped pan and frosted with an easy, rose-flavored American buttercream. Love is complicated enough. Cake doesn’t have to be. So read on to learn all about this 1-2-3-4 cake, other baking ratios, and the detailed tips and…

Shortbread Linzer Cookies with Raspberry Filling

Shortbread Linzer Cookies with Raspberry Filling

These Shortbread Linzer Cookies are a version of a classic Linzer cookie. They’re made with a raspberry filling sandwiched between two tender almond shortbread cookies and dusted with confectioners’ sugar. They remind me so much of the raspberry-filled cookies my grandmother used to bring down on the train from New York City when I was…

Ube Crinkle Cookies

Ube Crinkle Cookies

Ube Crinkle Cookies are the ultimate purple delight, combining the nutty, vanilla essence of ube with the irresistible chewiness of a crinkle cookie. If you’re a fan of the original chocolate crinkles and looking for a twist, these purple crinkles will surely satisfy your cookie cravings! Not only that, but this ube crinkle recipe is…

Gin Espresso Martini

Gin Espresso Martini

The Gin Espresso Martini swaps out the vodka and combines gin, espresso, and coffee liqueur for an espresso martini variation. If you love coffee and cocktails and you love an espresso martini, then an espresso gin martini is a cocktail to try. So read on for all the info and detailed tips and tricks about…