Hey friend, how is the weather where you are right now? Here in California, it’s just starting to cool down, and you know what that means. It’s hot chocolate weather! (AKA the best weather.) If it’s hot chocolate weather where you are today, you should absolutely treat yourself to a cup of something warm and sugary. And if it’s warm and sugary you want, you can’t go wrong with a cup of creamy, marvelous White Hot Chocolate....

Have you ever made vodka sauce at home? If not, friend, say hello to your new favorite quick and easy pasta sauce. Pasta tossed with a quick vodka sauce is perfect for busy weeknights when you need something that feels a little (a lot) indulgent but don’t want to spend a ton of time in the kitchen. 15-minute Pasta Sauce With a Special Ingredient From start to finish, this sauce takes about 15 minutes....

Did you eat American goulash growing up? I didn’t, but I got completely obsessed with it a while back when I was working on my Hungarian goulash recipe. This American version has total grown-up Hamburger Helper vibes and feels like such a nostalgic treat every time you make it. It’s simple to throw together, and even though it requires a slightly longer cooking time than most of my favorite weeknight meals, most of the cooking time is hands-off so it’s still a great candidate for busy nights when you need something easy and filling for dinner....

Hey you, yes you. How has your week been going? It’s Thursday, so that means you’ve probably been working hard and getting things done all week. Been responsible and reasonable and totally respectable. And isn’t it all kind of awful? Is it starting to get to you, like an itch under your skin? Friend, I have just the antidote for that sort of mundane: Chocolate Cookie Dough Cupcakes. Tell me those words don’t send a tiny shiver of delight down your spine....

Hey, friends. I had some regular recipe posts scheduled to go up this week, but with everything that’s going on, I wanted to publish something a little more immediately useful today. So I compiled a (long) list of my favorite make-ahead freezer meals with recipe notes to make those meals the best that they can be. Recipes you can freeze are handy because they allow you to cook with fresh ingredients once and store/eat them for months....

It’s Monday! How was your weekend? Did you watch the Golden Globes last night? Did any of your favorites win? I’m an awards show junkie, so I made naan pizza for the occasion (OMG, so good, recipe coming soon) and happily settled in for three hours of beautiful people giving each other awards. I was super excited to see my fav, Olivia Colman get recognized, and oh man, those Viola Davis and Meryl Streep speeches were so great....

As we head into warmer weather, I’m more than ready to dust off all my favorite cold and frosty drink recipes. Hot chocolate can take a little break. It’s time for iced mochas, iced white chocolate mochas, and all the iced chai lattes we can drink. Today let’s make another icy coffee house favorite, an iced caramel latte. I posted my favorite (hot) caramel latte to the site last year, and this iced version is just as good....

I have another microwave vegetable recipe for you today, and honestly, this one’s kind of a game-changer: Microwave Corn on the Cob. This is the BEST way to cook corn on the cob, because it is SO quick, SO easy, and mess-free. The Easiest Way to Make Corn on the Cob Cooking corn in the microwave means no need to shuck the corn or peel off those annoying little stringy bits....

Hey, friends. As regular readers of the site might remember, I did a reader survey back in December and asked if there were any particular topics you’d like to see covered on Baking Mischief. Most popular request number one was for posts on meal planning (so I wrote How to Meal Plan and How to Meal Plan Using Google Calendar). And most popular request number two was for a post on where I buy my small-batch baking tools....

This month on the blog, we are making super simple dinners that are healthy, easy, and quick. Last week we made Teriyaki Chicken with Homemade Teriyaki sauce, a dinner that comes together in all of 15 minutes. Today I’m sharing a recipe that takes a few minutes longer, but is just as simple, Basil Chicken Pasta. Do you have days where you just do. not. want. to. cook. anything? I have those days all the time, and rather than dig out a take out menu, this is the dish I turn to....

Happy April Fools’ Day! Have you been fooled yet? Or have you been the fooler? I’m not usually much of a prankster on April 1st, but since I have Baking Mischief now, I thought I should do something. I had this whole silly post planned where I was going to write a straight-faced recipe for making toast, but THEN I thought instead of playing a joke on you, lovely readers, what if we all played a terrible, horrible, amazing, delicious joke on our bodies instead and ingested something terriblicious....

It’s been a while since I posted a small-batch frosting post, but I have a shiny new one for you this week, Small-batch Strawberry Frosting. If you like strawberries and you like good things, you’ll love this frosting, because it is sweet, strawberry perfection. It’s dreamy on pretty much anything but especially on Vanilla Cupcakes, Small-batch Sugar Cookies, and Small-batch Brownies. Best of all, this is a completely from-scratch strawberry buttercream frosting that doesn’t use strawberry extract or freeze-dried strawberries, just five ingredients: strawberries, sugar, butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla....

So, you probably haven’t heard, but there’s a new Star Wars movie coming out this month. I know, crazy. You’d think we’d have seen at least a little advertising. She says, trying to keep a straight face. Are you excited? I’m excited. I went through a massive Star Wars phase growing up. My first crush was Han Solo, I had a Star Wars-themed tenth-birthday party. I thought the third movie was the most romantic thing ever....

Hey, I have a quick and easy dessert/snack for you today: Brown Sugar Kettle Corn. If you have a cozy movie night planned (tell me what you’re watching in the comments!) OR you need a little sugar boost this afternoon that you can snack on while you work, this is the sweet, salty, slightly caramelly treat you’ve been looking for. I shared my white sugar Kettle Corn Recipe with you last year, and I LOVE that recipe, but Brown Sugar Kettle Corn is like its slightly more mature sibling....

Two weeks ago, I shared the best, most crispy and amazing Homemade Carnitas Recipe along with Carnitas Tacos, made three different ways. And I hope you’re not all carnitas’d out because I have one more carnitas recipe for you today: Carnitas Enchiladas. During my carnitas recipe testing extravaganza, because of the truly astounding amount of carnitas I had around the house for a solid two months, I made these enchiladas SO often, and never ever got tired of them....

The holidays are finally here, and that means it’s time to make some festive coffee drinks. My go-to holiday treat-yourself coffee is always a peppermint white chocolate mocha or regular peppermint mocha. Two years ago I posted the recipe for the homemade white chocolate version, so this year you’re getting a classic peppermint mocha. Like my regular homemade mocha, this is a really quick, simple, and easy recipe to make at home....

A couple of months ago, I shared my favorite Steak Fajitas with you, and as much as I love (LOVE) that recipe, it requires a pretty long marinating time, so it’s not exactly something you can whip up after work on a busy weeknight without planning ahead. Today’s recipe, on the other hand, is perfect for no-plan weeknights. This is a fajita recipe that you can throw together in about half an hour, no marinating, no planning ahead....

A couple months ago I shared my favorite freezer burritos with you, and today I have a spinoff version of that recipe, shredded beef burritos. These burritos still use the same cilantro rice and slightly spicy bean base but are stuffed with tangy homemade barbacoa shredded beef that is so good. This recipe makes 8 burritos so it’ll feed a family or freeze the burritos and have a whole bunch of lunches and dinners ready to go....

We are officially into fall now, and I’ve already shared a bunch of pumpkin recipes on the site this year, Pumpkin Donuts, Small-batch Pumpkin Cupcakes, and a Mini Pumpkin Cake, but I haven’t yet shared any pumpkin recipes with one of my favorite flavor combos, pumpkin and chocolate! So today, I’m fixing that. Let’s all bake some Small-batch Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies! Biting into one of these cookies is like biting into the perfect chocolate chip cookie all dressed up for fall....

Saturday Morning Snapshot Took a break from photographing today’s recipe to eat today’s recipe… State of the Blog We finished up May Nerd Month week two! This week was Bryan Fuller week, which meant I got to spend all week talking about shows I love, posting Fullerverse-themed recipes and sifting through Tumblr for juuuuust the right GIFs of cannibal puns. It was great. Seriously though, I have like 10 more of those GIFs....