Friends, I’m really excited about sharing this one with you today. You all are always asking me for easy chicken recipes, and balsamic chicken might just be my new ideal easy chicken dinner. What’s Great About This Recipe Almost no cutting required. You’ll need to slice an onion and maybe a couple of chicken breasts. That’s it. You can prep the ingredients in about 5 to 10 minutes. Even though this dish is big on flavor, there aren’t a ton of ingredients, so the recipe comes together FAST....

I’ve been a little fajita obsessed lately and have added a bunch of fajita recipes to the site over the last few months, including Steak Fajitas, Easy Chicken Fajitas, and Chicken Fajita Sandwiches. And today I have one more fajita recipe for you: Fajita Vegetables. Making a batch of fajita veggies has become one of my favorite ways to use up leftover onion and bell pepper halves, and they’re so handy to have in the fridge to toss into a salad or burrito or liven up a plate of scrambled eggs....

Hey, friend, here today because you’re craving a milkshake and don’t have a blender (or don’t want to have to wash a blender)? You’re in the right place. No Blender, No Problem It’s actually really easy to make a great milkshake without a blender. You’ll just need ice cream, milk, a mason jar, and a microwave. See Also: How to Make a Milkshake And real talk, a milkshake made by hand will never be as thick and frosty as one made with a high-powered blender, but this is still going to be a fabulous shake that will absolutely satisfy all those milkshake cravings....

Looking for more fall treats? You might like these Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Donuts, Pumpkin Donuts With Cream Cheese Glaze, Mini Pumpkin Pie, and Small-batch Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies. If you follow me on Instagram, you might have, via the stories feature, seen me testing these doughnuts a few weeks ago in August. It felt almost sacrilegious cracking open a can of pumpkin puree before September, but it was so worth it so that I could have this recipe ready for you today, because, guys....

Another Wednesday, another small-batch frosting recipe. I love sharing these small-batch frosting recipes with you because having an archive of different frosting flavors means that you can mix and match them with my small-batch cupcakes or cookies and make the small-batch dessert of your dreams. Here on the blog so far, I’ve shared Small-batch Chocolate Frosting, Small-batch Oreo Frosting, and Small-batch Cream Cheese Frosting. This time, it’s classic, perfect Small-batch Vanilla American Buttercream Frosting....

Saturday Morning Snapshot Photographed a ridiculously fun recipe today. Can’t wait to share it with you in a couple of weeks… State of the Blog Some Baking Mischief recipes were included in a few roundups around the web this week: 26 Hearty & Delicious Soups to Keep You Satisfied Through the Rest of Winter and The Great Cupcake Bake Sale: 31 Flavors To Choose From for Parade’s Community Table and 9 Seasonal Vegetables to Eat in March for Mode....

Can you believe it? Baking Mischief is officially one year old today! Last year on December 1st, I posted my first recipe, Butterscotch Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies, and before I knew it, an entire year flew by. Thank you for all your support in Baking Mischief’s first year. Thanks for your comments, your emails, your clicks, and your time. You’ve made this year an absolute blast! Just for fun, here are a few Baking Mischief stats from its first year:...

Hey! It’s May! And if you’ve been following along with Baking Mischief for a while, you’ll know that May means it’s Nerd Month here on the blog!!! Nerd Month = my favorite month because it’s a month-long excuse for me to create recipes based on my favorite nerdy things and try to convince you to read/watch/listen along with me (you can see all of last year’s nerdy recipes here). It won’t be ALL nerdy recipes this month, but a big chunk of the posts will be, and I’m so excited to share them with you because spoiler, this year’s recipes (and the things they are based on) are GREAT!...

Happy Monday, all! We are on week number two of March Meatless Monday Meals and today’s recipe is one that brings back so many busy-college-student memories. Remember last week in my Slow Cooker Baked Potatoes with Broccoli and Cheese Sauce post when I mentioned I was vegan for a while in college and survived on vegan hot dogs and oreos? That’s not 100 percent true. I also had this Mexican Vegan Vegetable Stew....

A couple months ago, I shared my go-to vodka sauce on the blog. One of my favorite things about that sauce other than it being ridiculously good and absurdly quick and easy is that it’s the perfect base recipe. You can take that vodka sauce and use it in a million delicious ways. And today we’re going to use it to make penne alla vodka with chicken. This is a super quick, super easy dinner that packs a ton of flavor and totally satisfies....

This will be the last Baking Mischief post before Thanksgiving, so to all my American brothers and sisters, happy Thanksgiving. I wish you safe, speedy travel, perfectly cooked turkeys, and patience and empathy to deal with the trying conversations I’m sure are going to come up over dinner. We’ll get through this. If you’ve been following along with the blog for a little while, you’ll know that my first cookbook, Baking for Two is out this month....

Whipped cream is one of those things you don’t really need a recipe for. You get some cream, add some sugar, and agitate the mixture until it resembles something that usually comes out of a spray can. But it’s nice to have a starting point, especially if you’re like me and can never remember the ideal ratios, so let’s have a little chat about homemade whipped cream. Ingredient Notes Heavy cream/heavy whipping cream: You can use heavy cream (30–36% milk fat) and heavy (whipping) cream (36%+ milk fat) interchangeably when making whipped cream....

Every year Google compiles a list of their most popular searches in different categories, including recipes. Do you know what the most searched for recipe was in the United States for 2017? My very favorite food in all the world, beef stroganoff. And I had a ridiculous reaction when I heard that: How does everyone know what stroganoff is? I haven’t shared it with them yet. That’s right, my first reaction upon hearing that millions of people had searched for stroganoff recipes in 2017 was disbelief because I hadn’t personally introduced each and every one of them to the recipe first....

Kettle corn is usually considered a fair-time or amusement park treat (who doesn’t love wandering around eating handfuls of the stuff out of a giant $9 bag??), but it’s actually incredibly easy to make at home and just as delicious. What is Kettle Corn? How is it Different from Popcorn? The only difference between popcorn and kettle corn is a little bit of sugar. Unlike popcorn, kettle corn is cooked with sugar, which when heated melts and coats the popping kernels making them both sweet and salty....

I’ve written quite a few posts on what to do with that brown banana that’s been sitting on your counter all week, but today we’re going to chat about the opposite situtation, what to do when you really need an overripe banana for baking and all you have is a bunch of perfectly unblemished yellow bananas. The Fastest Way to Ripen Bananas (For Baking) The quickest way to ripen bananas for baking is to just bake them....

A couple months ago, I posted a dirty chai latte recipe that’s been a reader favorite. Since we’re heading into warmer weather, it felt like a good time to show you how to transform that warming winter drink into something icy, refreshing, and perfect for spring and summer. Time to make an iced dirty chai latte. An iced dirty chai is simply a chai latte with a shot of espresso served over ice....

Happy 2017! How was your New Years Eve? Did you watch the Sherlock season 4 premiere yesterday? Oh man. Rough. (And you know I love this show–I made Sherlock cookies last year!) We’re back for another year of recipes, and as is tradition, recipes on the blog this month will be on the lighter side. You might remember last January’s salad series where I posted some of my favorite healthy salads like my BLT Salad and Asian Chicken Salad (if you haven’t tried those salads, you totally should–they are THE BEST)....

Hey, you know what’s great? Fettuccine Alfredo. You know what’s not great? Fettuccine Alfredo leftovers. Don’t get me wrong. I’ll eat them (oh I’ll eat them), but the sauce always gets a little funny looking on day two, and the noodles end up too hot or too cold or too soft after microwaving. So given the choice, I’d rather not make more than can be eaten immediately. That’s where today’s recipe, Fettuccine Alfredo for one comes in handy....

Today’s recipe is this sweet little batch of cut-out sugar cookies. It’s the perfect recipe if you love decorating cookies at Christmas but don’t have a lot of people around to feed them to. You still get to decorate some cookies (maybe with some spiked hot chocolate and a fire going in the background to keep you cozy while you work), but you don’t have to find homes for (or accidentally eat) a mountain of cookies when you’re done....

Hey, friends, I have something a little different for you today, a reader-submitted recipe. This recipe for a Small Red Velvet Cake was ever-so-kindly sent to me by ‘Becca Ashley, and I’m so excited for you guys to try it because this is a superb little cake. A Six-inch Red Velvet Cake This recipe makes a six-inch, two-layer red velvet cake, which can be cut into four to six cute little slices....