Three weeks into Nerd Month (read more about Nerd Month here) and we’ve done recipes for (among others) a darkly beautiful murder drama, hardcore AI sci-fi, and multiple tales of epic mythological battles. Today we’re changing gears and going with a comedy, Happy Endings! Did you watch Happy Endings while it was on? I was such a massive fan of this show. It was the best of the Friends-style comedies that everyone was making a few years ago and so packed full of jokes that you could watch each episode twenty times and still find new things to laugh at....

Whipping cream is one of my favorite ingredients to cook with. It’s delicious, versatile, and makes everything taste better. But it’s also not something everyone keeps in their fridge, and a little goes a long way in recipes (and calorie-wise), so I always hesitate to create recipes for the site that use it. I don’t want to make you buy an ingredient you’ll use for one meal and then have the rest of it go bad in your fridge....

Hey all. It’s been a little while since my last nerdy recipe, but they’re back in a big way this week (and in the very near future, stay tuned!!) for one of my most anticipated pop-culture events of the year, Captain America: Civil War! Are you excited for Captain America!? We’re exactly one week out, and by we, I mean absolutely everyone, because there’s no way Captain AMERICA would be opening around the rest of the world today before AMERICA gets it, right!...

This might sound a little odd coming from a grown-up human being, but I LOVE Dr. Seuss. In college, I worked for three years doing one-on-one therapy with autistic children, which meant I spent many hours reading and reading children’s books with my clients. Dr. Seuss’ books were the only ones I never ever tired of. I still have half of them memorized and some nights when I can’t sleep, I see how far into The Lorax I can recite before I drift off....

Happy Friday, loves. How was your week? Have any fun weekend plans? I’m taking a quick trip down to LA this weekend to see a play, so I’m suuuper ready for this work week to be over. Can you believe it’s almost Valentine’s Day? Are you celebrating this year? Well, whether you plan on observing the day or not, I have a little Valentine’s Day gift for all the peanut butter lovers out there, Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies for Two!...

I have another small-batch frosting recipe to share with you today, Small-batch Cream Cheese Frosting. This frosting is smooth, tangy, and intensely cream cheesy, which I think is an absolute must for cream cheese frosting. I hate it when I bite into something with a “cream cheese frosting” and the cream cheese is barely a whisper of a flavor. This cream cheese frosting, you take a bite and you know immediately what you’re eating....

Hey, we are in the last days of August! Thursday brings September, and September means fall, right!? Cool crisp mornings and chilly evening strolls are just around the corner. If I lie hard enough to myself, maybe it will become true… Anyway, this long, hot August, the recipe theme on the blog was slow cooker recipes so that our ovens might stay off and our kitchens might stay slightly cooler....

Another month down, another monthly theme on the blog in our rear-view mirror. After last month’s theme of Slow Cooker Recipes, for September, we tackled super simple recipes, things you can throw together in a pinch for a quick and easy dinner. I shared three of my favorites this month: And for this month’s round up I asked some food blogger friends for some of their favorite quick and easy dinner recipes (along with some older Baking Mischief classics)....

It’s the last post of 2016! On Monday, I posted the Top 10 Most Popular Baking Mischief Recipes of 2016. Today, I’m rounding up my favorites. A lot of my favorites were already featured in Monday’s round up, but these are the posts I loved the most that didn’t crack the top 10 list. My Favorite Posts of 2016 That’s a wrap for 2016. Happy New Year, and I’ll see you all in 2017!...

What’s your go-to holiday pie? First in my heart is usually Dutch apple, but pumpkin pie is a very, very close second. Yet despite its high marks in my personal pie rankings, I didn’t have a tried and true favorite pumpkin pie recipe in my arsenal. So this year, I set out to change that. I have tested and tasted so many pumpkin pies over the last couple of months, and can now officially share with you, my favorite pumpkin pie....

Last year around this time, I shared these Small-batch Pumpkin Shortbread Bars, and I love that recipe, but I’ve been dreaming about an apple version ever since. So today, that’s what I’m sharing: Small-batch Apple Pie Bars! These bars turned out to be everything I wanted and more. On the bottom layer, you have a buttery beautiful shortbread layer. Over that is a slightly gooey center of diced apple, cinnamon, sugar, and a little lemon juice to brighten everything up....

Looking for more small-batch muffins? You might also like my One Banana, One Bowl Small-batch Banana Muffins, Pumpkin Streusel Muffins, and Small-batch Cinnamon Apple Crumb Muffins. Since I started Baking Mischief, I get lots of recipe requests from friends and family, but loudest and most consistent among them has been from my youngest sister, for me to make chocolate chocolate chip muffins. And I’ve ignored her requests because chocolate muffins usually aren’t my jam and because withholding things they want from younger siblings totally is (guys, I am the greatest big sister ever), but all good things must come to an end (and make even better things), so this week, I finally tackled chocolate chocolate chip muffins, small-batch style....

Cream cheese whipped cream is one of my favorite dessert toppings. Plain whipped cream is delicious, but adding a little cream cheese to the mix gives the light and fluffy topping a tang that just can’t be beat. It can really catipult desserts with a simpler sweetness to something amazing I used a variation of this recipe in my Captain America Cheesecake Parfaits. This version is a little lighter, perfect for serving over already sweet desserts or, as we will see next week, over breakfast....

Hey, friends, today we’re going to chat about the whys and hows of making a homemade buttermilk substitute. But if you’re in the middle of a recipe and just need that info quick, here you go: Buttermilk Substitute Ratio Add the following amount of lemon juice (fresh or bottled) or white vinegar to your measuring cup and fill the cup the rest of the way with milk, stir, and continue baking....

Saturday Morning Snapshot It was a lazy morning for everyone here at casa mia… State of the Blog Am I crazy, or did this week go by insanely fast? It seems like I just hit publish on last week’s Weekend Post… This was a fun week on the blog. I got to share a recipe that was one of my most made meals in college, some cornbread made exactly how I like it, and a cupcake recipe I love to look at, but would never, ever eat (if you haven’t, read that post to find out why)....

Have some ripe bananas on your counter and not quite sure what to do with them? My friend, I have so many ideas for you. Below you’ll find some fabulous banana recipes to use up those bananas, both from Baking Mischief and around the internet divided by exactly how many bananas you’ll need to make them. But before we get to the recipes… What can I do with lots of ripe bananas?...

So, it’s the last week of August, fall is right around the corner, and it’s just about cool enough to start using the oven again. Let’s all celebrate by roasting a chicken. I mean, can you think of a better way to welcome September than with a perfectly golden, crispy skinned, super moist and beautiful piece of poultry? Of course not. September 1st through about mid-March, this is one of my favorite easy dinners, and unlike that Tomato Soup I shared way too late last season, I’m getting this recipe to you early so you can enjoy it all through cozy sweater weather and into the spring....

We’re well into September, which means it’s time for a new recipe theme for the month! Last month’s theme was Slow Cooker recipes since it was way too hot in August to be running an oven. This month since it’s (nearly) fall, school has started, and the days are getting shorter, I thought I’d go with a theme we could all use right about now, dead simple recipes. I have a few of those on the site already, like my Quick Rosemary Pork Chops or the World’s Easiest Chicken Taco Soup, but we can always use a few more....

Hey, friend. As you might know, I have a ton of coffee recipes on the site, and I’ve gotten a bunch of questions about turning some of them into iced versions of themselves. Doing that is a tiny bit more complicated than just pouring them over ice, so I went through my coffee archives and created iced versions of the most-requested drinks, because summer is coming fast, and cold coffee makes it just a little more bearable....

Happy Wednesday! I’ve been convalescing from the cold I picked up weeks ago, so we haven’t chatted since last Monday. How was your Halloween? How was your weekend? Did you enjoy your extra hour of sleep this Sunday? (My answers to those questions are: great, fabulous, and YES!) Now that October is in the rear-view mirror, we start saying goodbye to pumpkin and pumpkin spice everything ( 🙁 ) and looking forward to Thanksgiving (yay!...