I’ve shared a few of my favorite date-night or special-occasion meals on the site already. These are dishes taste great, look a little fancier than your average dinner, but are secretly incredibly easy so you don’t have to stress about them. Those dishes include my Bacon and Feta Stuffed Chicken, Chicken Parmesan, and Broiled Steak in Mustard Sauce. I have another one for you today, Chicken in Cream Sauce for Two....

Have a craving for hot chocolate but don’t have any hot cocoa mix in your cupboard? No worries, I’ve got you covered. If you have milk in your fridge and cocoa powder and sugar in your baking cupboard, you can make and be sipping a creamy, fabulous cup of hot cocoa in about 5 minutes. Ingredient Notes Milk: Any milk can be used here (plant-based works just fine). The higher fat the milk, the richer your hot chocolate will be....

So, something to know about me is that I love life hacks. I’m a sucker for an article about the perfect way to untangle ear buds, how to use a Raspberry Pi to operate everything in your house, how to never lose a sock again in the dryer (remember when I learned how to shred chicken in a stand mixer?). But I’m fully aware that mileage will vary, and most life hacks don’t actually end up being all that life changing....

A good streusel recipe immediately improves anything you sprinkle it over. It adds texture, crunch, and a buttery sweetness that can take a boring old muffin or loaf of quick bread and make it feel like a total treat. Today I’m sharing my favorite streusel recipe with you. I’ve used it on a few recipes here in the past, on pumpkin bread, donuts, and muffins, but it’s so good I figured it was time to give it a stand-alone recipe....

Looking for some more breakfast favorites? Try these Classic Crêpes for Two and Mini Strawberry Breakfast Cake or just scroll through the Breakfast Category! Hey, you know what the best breakfasts in the entire world are? Pancakes and Waffles. You know the best way to eat them? Absolutely smothered in Strawberry Sauce. And lucky for all of us, strawberry sauce for pancakes and waffles (and anything else you want to pour it over) is one of the easiest things you can make at home....

If you’re sitting around in your pajamas today craving a salted caramel mocha and really don’t want to get dressed and leave the house to buy one, no worries. Stay in your pajamas, head to the kitchen, and make your mocha at home this morning. It’s super simple, quick, and easy. It’s such a good combo, and when you make it at home you can add as much caramel as you like so you get a drink that is the perfect balance of flavors for you....

You all know that I’m a big fan of prepping ingredients in advance to save time and effort later. And one of the absolute best things you can make ahead of time is shredded chicken. Having cooked shredded chicken in your fridge or freezer will shave 20 to 30 minutes of cooking time off a huge number of chicken dishes so you can have dinner on the table in around 20 minutes....

I have another small-batch frosting recipe for you today, and this one is one of my favorites. This Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting is SO creamy and SO spectacularly good, good luck not just sitting there and eating it with a spoon (that’s what I like to do 😉). And the best part is that it’s just as easy to make as a classic American chocolate buttercream but with the added smoothness and tang of cream cheese....

Hey, folks. Happy Monday, and if you are in the US, Happy Labor Day. I hope you’re enjoying your three-day weekend. As promised, I have another small-batch frosting for you today. This time, Small-batch Chocolate Frosting. Or as some might say (me, I say it), the best frosting. This chocolate frosting is an American buttercream, which means it’s one of the easiest frostings you can possibly make, and you almost certainly have the ingredients to make it any time the urge strikes because you just need butter, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla, and a little milk or cream....

Looking for more Small-batch Cupcakes? Try these Small-batch Vanilla Cupcakes, Small-batch Hostess Cupcakes, and Small-batch Pumpkin Cupcakes! Hey, friends. How was your week? Did you ever recover from having Monday off? Like I said in Wednesday’s post (Cinnamon Sugar Baked Pumpkin Donuts go make them now!!), I worked through the long weekend trying to get ahead on the blog. I shot an entire month’s worth of recipes last week and then burned out hard by the middle of this one....

Would you look at that? Baking Mischief is officially two months old! How time flies. Last month we did a January salad series, and that worked out so well I figure we will keep up the themed months, at least until it stops being fun. Coming into cold and chilly February, I thought, what better than a month of soups? So every week until March we’ll have a new soup or stew or chowder, starting with, drum roll please… the World’s Easiest Chicken Taco Soup....

We will get back to our regularly scheduled recipes on Friday, but today I have something I want to share with you: Guys, I wrote a book!! I know. I can’t quite believe it either. Baking for Two features more than 80 small-batch baking recipes perfect for small households, including: Death by Chocolate Sheet Cake Bacon Scones with Maple Glaze Caprese Tarts White Chocolate Mocha Cheesecake Chocolate Red Wine Cake...

Remember that Carne Asada recipe (that really, REALLY good carne asada recipe) I posted last week? In that post, I mentioned that while carne asada is pretty perfect all on its own, it’s also killer when used in other recipes. Today I have just such a recipe for you: Carne Asada Burrito Bowls. Carne asada makes an excellent burrito bowl filling, because it’s packed full of flavor that’s going to stand up well to all the other ingredients....

My ham and potato soup is one of Baking Mischief’s OG reader favorite recipes. You all are constantly sending me nice messages about that recipe, and it’s been pinned more than 180k times on Pinterest. So today, in the hopes of giving you another soup you might love, I present, cheesy sausage potato soup. This is a spinoff version of that original fav made with smoked sausage and cheese, so it’s extra rich and creamy and stick-to-your-bones filling....

Hey, did you know that (under very specific circumstances) chocolate milk can be considered a “health food”? A couple summers ago, I was putting on some serious running mileage and struggling with crashing after my long runs. I did a little research and discovered that the most easily accessible recommended recovery drink for distance runners is actually chocolate milk! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?! <–That was my reaction. I added 8 to 12 ounces of chocolate milk to the end of anything over 12 miles and I never crashed again....

In 2015, I shared these Pumpkin Donuts With Maple Glaze. They were one of my favorite recipes I posted that season, and I loved them so much that I wanted to revisit that pumpkin donut recipe and try something a little different. So this time around, the donut base is still the same fabulous moist and soft pumpkiny dream of a baked donut, but instead of topping them with maple frosting, they get coated in crunchy cinnamon sugar And friend, they’re real good....

Looking for more summer favorites? Try my Tri-tip in the Oven, S’mores Cupcakes, and Slowcooker BBQ Tri-tip Sandwiches. Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you had a productive and fruitful week and have some awesome and/or awesomely relaxing weekend plans! Wednesday, for Nerd Month (more on Nerd Month here), we paid homage to a scene from Happy Endings, one of my favorite television comedies, by making Strawberry Mimosas so that we might all speak better Italian....

Saturday Morning Snapshot Brunch with my BFF so I made cookies… State of the Blog As promised, there were more cupcakes on the blog this week, also broccoli. I can think of worse ways to celebrate the end of Baking Mischief’s third month. We’re in March now, so that means it’s time for a new monthly series! Tune in Monday for that. Wednesday we have a copycat restaurant recipe that I’ve lightened up a bit, and Friday, we will have Girl Scout cupcake #2 (it’s a good one)....

Hey, friends, popping in today with a super quick and simple vegetable side dish for you. Asparagus in the oven AKA roasted asparagus. This is one of my favorite easy, no-fuss side dishes, AND it’s the first vegetable I ever learned to cook as a kid. Now that it’s asparagus season here in California, it seemed like the perfect time to post this recipe. Ingredients Olive oil: Good quality olive oil will help enhance the flavor of the asparagus and keep it from sticking to the roasting pan as it cooks....

A few weeks ago, I shared my favorite barbacoa recipe with you, and today, I’m sharing one of my favorite ways to eat barbacoa, in tacos! Barbacoa tacos are the perfect way to use barbacoa beef because they really let all the fabulous flavor of the meat shine through. You don’t need to add tons of sour cream or cheese or salsa (though you can if you want to). These tacos are really about a few simple ingredients whose flavor and texture complement the incredibly good barbacoa and let it be the star of the show....