I’ve shared a bunch of easy coffee recipes on the site in the past, my Iced White Chocolate Mocha, Chai Tea Latte, Pumpkin Spice Latte, and Caramel Macchiato, but this homemade mocha might be the easiest of them all. It’s sweet, chocolatey, and takes hardly more time to make than adding cream and sugar to your morning coffee so it can be the thrown-together treat that gets you through a crazy busy morning or something to sip slowly on a lazy Sunday morning....

Have you ever made frozen hot chocolate? If you haven’t, we should fix that today. It’s everything you love about a creamy glass of hot chocolate, but iced so you can still enjoy (frozen) hot chocolate even when it’s 100 degrees outside. Best of all, frozen hot chocolate is super simple to throw together at home since it’s literally just hot chocolate ingredients blended with ice. (You could also technically call it frozen chocolate milk since chocolate milk is just cold hot chocolate, but that name’s not nearly as catchy....

During the fall baking season, apple pie spice is a wonderfully convenient spice blend to keep on hand. Instead of digging a bunch of rarely-used spices out of the back of your spice drawer each time you want to make an apple dessert, you can reach for a single jar of premade apple pie spice. But in my experience, unlike pumpkin pie spice, apple spice isn’t something a ton of people keep stocked in their kitchen....

Italian roasted potatoes are a simple side dish that everyone should have in their recipe arsenal. They fill out a plate beautifully, and you can toss them together and have them in the oven in about 10 minutes. They’re the very definition of a low-effort, high-reward recipe, and when they come out of the oven golden and beautiful, good luck not stealing all the crispiest bits off the tray before they ever make it to the table…...

I call these cookies my instant-gratification chocolate chip cookies because they go from cookie desire to cookie reality in 20 minutes. The Best Small-batch Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe This recipe is designed to make the best chocolate chip cookies possible FAST. It uses melted butter so there is zero waiting time for butter to come to room temperature AND you don’t have to chill the dough. These photos have been updated....

Hey, friends. Today is a very exciting day around here. Because today is the day I’m posting the first Baking Mischief pumpkin recipe of the summer fall!! I know, I know, it’s a little early for pumpkin. Originally, I had an apple recipe scheduled for you today, but that recipe is a little tricky, so I wanted to test it one more time before sharing. So today, you’re getting pumpkin, and you’re going to like it....

Monday’s come around again. How was your weekend? Mine was lovely. As I mentioned in my Homemade Kettle Corn post last week, it’s fair time around here, so I got in a little fair visit and went to the movies to see Magnificent Seven. Not a bad weekend at all. 😉 We are nearly through the month of September, which means here on the blog, our month of Simple September Dinners is drawing to a close....

I have a ton of hot chocolate recipes on the site, classic hot chocolate, rich and thick hot chocolate, white hot chocolate, but this is the hot chocolate I’ve been making the most this year. Salted caramel and chocolate are just such a perfect pair, and when you mix them together in the form of a piping hot cup of salted caramel hot cocoa, it’s irresistibly good. Ingredients Cocoa powder, sugar, and water: The hot chocolate base is a homemade syrup of cocoa powder, a little sugar, and water....

Hey, friends, I have another small-batch frosting recipe for you today. I started sharing these frosting recipes alongside my small-batch cupcakes back in August because I wanted you guys to be able to mix and match small-batch cupcakes and frostings to make whatever kinds of cupcake creations you were craving. And today, we have Small-batch Cookie Dough Frosting! I used this a couple months ago on these Chocolate Cookie Dough Cupcakes, but today I’m sharing just the frosting as a stand-alone recipe....

I’ve mentioned on the blog before that we weren’t huge bakers in my house growing up, BUT, my mom did have a few really good go-to recipes in her arsenal that she brought out for special occasions. One of those recipes was (and still is) her carrot cake. If she gets asked to bring a dessert to a potluck, I guarantee you, that’s what she’s going to bring. And when she does, at least five people will tell her it’s the best carrot cake they’ve ever eaten....

Today’s recipe is one I’ve gotten a TON of requests for: waffles!! The Best Waffle Recipe (Fight Me) If you’re a crispy waffle fan, these are the best waffles in existence. They come out beautifully golden with a crispy, crunchy exterior and light and fluffy insides every time. They are substantial and sturdy enough to pile whatever you want on top. Soak them in syrup, strawberry sauce and whipped cream, scoops of ice cream and hot fudge sauce....

It’s week three of Barbecue Month here on Baking Mischief. After Strawberry Limeades to get us started and a side dish of Loaded Baked Potato Salad With Yogurt, we have reached the main course! Obviously, it had to be steak. What says summer barbecue like a perfectly grilled steak? Nothing. Nothing at all. If I could eat any steak from anywhere in the world, prepared any way I wanted, I would choose today’s recipe nine times out of ten (the tenth time I would eat a steak that cost as much as my car just for giggles)....

Today I’m sharing one of my favorite Japanese dishes lightened up a little for January, Baked Chicken Katsu (or Torikatsu)! Folks, you are in for a treat. I LOVE this recipe. Traditional Chicken Katsu is chicken cutlets coated in panko and then shallow or deep fried in oil. It’s amazing, it’s delicious, but it’s also kind of a pain to make. My Baked Chicken Katsu is chicken cutlets, coated in panko and then baked....

Friend, this is some really good, really easy tomato soup. It’s sharp and tangy with just enough cream to take the edge off and add a really satisfying richness. It tastes like something whipped up in a charming bistro kitchen, but is so, so easy to make in yours. You just need one can of tomatoes (crushed, cubed or whole all work fine), a few pantry staples, an immersion or countertop blender, and you’re 25-ish minutes away from some marvelous soup....

Need a super speedy and simple side tonight? Make a homemade batch of mashed potatoes in the microwave! Microwave mashed potatoes are everything you love about classic homemade mashed potatoes. They’re buttery, rich, and completely satisfying. They just happen to be made in your microwave. 😉 Equipment & Ingredient Notes A large microwave-safe bowl: Make sure you use a bowl that is large enough that the potatoes/water only fill about ½ to ⅔ of the bowl....

Let’s set the scene here: you, a lazy weekend morning, there’s coffee brewing on the counter and half a carton of heavy cream in the refrigerator from last night’s dinner that you need to use up. What are your going to do? You’re going to make cream scones. You’re going to take five minutes to throw together 5 ingredients and that leftover cream to make some dough, 14 minutes to have a kitchen dance party while it bakes, and then you’re going to spend the most charming morning sitting at the counter in your sun-drenched kitchen spreading butter and jam over freshly baked, warm-out-of-the-oven scones while you sip coffee and finish organizing your Pinterest boards....

Are you ready for the Sherlock winter special? We all have the shows we love, possibly beyond reason. Sherlock is one of mine. The problem with loving this show is that it airs a three-episode season and then goes away for YEARS. The delight of loving it is that every time it comes back, it feels like an event. We aren’t even getting three episodes this time around, just a single 90-minute episode, but it’s Sherlock, so it’s cause for celebration....

After I posted my Chicken Francaise recipe, I got a little addicted to the buttery, lemony chicken pasta, but I wanted a quicker, easier version for weeknights. So this Chicken in White Wine Lemon Butter Sauce was born. This recipe takes next to zero prep time, cooks from start to finish in just 20 minutes, and is a perfect midweek meal when you’re craving some comfort food but don’t feel like putting a ton of effort into cooking....

Say hello to your new favorite small-batch pancake recipe, friend. These pancakes are perfectly fluffy, incredibly good, and designed to serve two. Like my buttermilk pancakes for two, this banana pancake recipe will make exactly four good-sized pancakes, so you can enjoy them with someone else or make them solo and freeze the extra two for next weekend (always an excellent option). Ingredients of Note One overripe banana: This recipe is perfect for using up that single sad banana sitting on your counter, but if you’re craving banana pancakes and don’t have any brown bananas, check out my post on how to quickly ripen bananas....

On the hunt for a new quick and easy chicken recipe to add to your weekly dinner rotation? I’m so glad you dropped by, because this honey ginger chicken is exactly what you’re looking for. It’s a total crowd-pleaser of a dish, with a sweet and tangy sauce and tender chunks of chicken thighs that are perfect for serving over a big bowl of rice. Best of all, it’s super easy to make....