Is it really the holiday season if you don’t have at least one cup of peppermint hot chocolate? I think not. This is one of my favorite drinks as soon as the weather begins to turn cold, and while it’s perfectly lovely to order one while I’m out and about, I love that it’s almost as easy and just as delicious to throw one together for myself at home....
Happy Halloween Eve Day, my friends (that’s a thing, right?). As we sit here on the evening of our most chocolate-filled holiday, I hope all of your Halloween plans are falling into alignment. I hope your costume is just the right level of creepy/cute/ironic, your bags of candy are yet unplundered, and your enthusiasm for the night not dimmed by poor weather or obligatory party appearances (<–my worst nightmare). But before we all candy ourselves out tomorrow night, you should take a minute of me-time today and make yourself a cup of this Chai White Hot Chocolate (or pin this recipe and come back to it in a week when the candy coma has worn off....
Happy Wednesday! How’s your week going so far? Did the Monday holiday (for US readers) throw you off? I’m a huge creature of habit so disruptions to my schedule always leave me feeling adrift. Like, what is time even!? 😉 Oh well. That means we’re just that much closer to the weekend. And hey, speaking of time, how it flies! Baking Mischief is six months old today! Not to get sappy or anything, but I want to thank everyone who has followed along, commented, emailed, pinned, tried recipes, EVERYTHING....
(November 2016 Update: I updated the old iPhone photos in this post, but if you scroll all the way to the bottom, there’s still one old photo to remember Baking Mischief’s pre-DSLR days by. 😉 We’re so close to Christmas that I can practically taste it! There are two big things I love about this time of year. One we’re going to talk about in a minute, but the other is Christmas movies!...
We’ve reached the penultimate recipe for Nerd Month (more on Nerd Month here) and we’re doing one for Bob’s Burgers! Bob’s Burgers is a bit of an odd duck. I resisted the show for the longest time because animated comedies (with the exception of Archer) have historically not been my thing. But I kept hearing good things, so I finally watched the show when it came to Netflix and found that all the critical praise was completely valid....
Hey, friends. Yesterday, I published a complete guide to Roasted Chicken (if you haven’t read it yet, go check it out!), and today, I have a follow-up recipe for you. This recipe is for the day after (or the day after the day after) you’ve roasted a chicken. When the carcass is picked bare and your beautiful golden bird is mostly just a pile of bones. Time to make some chicken carcass soup....
Hey, are you a crepe person? I really wasn’t until I started making them myself (full disclosure, that was about a month ago) and now I’m like all crepes all the time. It’s been fun trying different sweet ways of eating them–until recently, I had only eaten crepes in savory dishes, but my favorite is still the way I made them the very first time I cooked them myself, stuffed with strawberries, blueberries, and cream cheese whipped cream....
I’ve shared a few of my Mom’s recipes here over the years. Her easy carrot cake is a reader favorite as is her stroganoff recipe. And since the holidays are coming up, it feels like a good time to share one of her special occasion recipes, her famous red wine pot roast. This is the roast my family makes on Christmas almost every year. It’s always a total show-stopper, and it’s my favorite pot roast recipe in the entire world because it is ridiculously good and ridiculously easy to make....
I have something a little different for you today, a good old-fashioned Southern dessert, banana pudding! This is the absolute best banana pudding I’ve ever eaten, and I think you’re going to LOVE it. Incredibly Good Banana Pudding This method of making banana pudding is a Southern classic, but I first stumbled upon it Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Table cookbook. When I saw that this was a pudding that involved both cream cheese and sweetened condensed milk, I HAD to try it, and after one bite, I knew I had to share it with you....
You might remember that a few weeks ago I made these super cute Jigglypuff Pink Cream Puffs and had way too much fun making pâte à choux. Pâte à choux is the base for a ton of French pastries, so while I was testing the cream puff recipe, I couldn’t help but fantasize over all the other delicious things I could do with this dough. And thus, today’s recipe was born, Mini Pumpkin Eclairs....
Hey, friends, how is your summer treating you? And just as importantly, how is summer treating your four-legged best friend(s)? Are you guys melting in the heat? Ella and I are. The only thing keeping us from fully turning into puddles is air-conditioning and oodles and oodles of frozen treats (Pudding Pops and Wine Popsicles for me, Watermelon and Yogurt Frozen Dog Treats for Ella). Those watermelon treats have actually been super popular on Pinterest this summer, and because of this, I’ve received multiple requests for more pupsicle recipes....
These fries make an irresistible appetizer for company or a decadent (and delicious) dinner for a night in. With all that gooey cheese, gorgeous carne asada, and mountain of toppings, it’s the sort of dish that has major WOW factor when you put it on the table. What are carne asada fries? Carne asada fries are a Mexican-American dish that originated in the taco shops of San Diego in the ’90s....
You’ll be so glad to have this little recipe in your back pocket because it’s so useful and versatile. Need a quick lunch? Steam some broccoli in the microwave and top with cheese sauce. Nachos for dinner? Cheese sauce. Baked potato feeling a little sad? CHEESE SAUCE IT. If you have a couple of minutes and some cheddar cheese, you could probably make this sauce right this second. Ingredients Butter: The base of this cheese sauce is a roux made with butter and flour....
I’ve shared a ton of Starbucks-inspired recipes on the site over the years like an Easy Homemade Mocha, my mom’s favorite Caramel Macchiato, a Pumpkin Spice Latte made two ways. And I love them all because I love coffee, but today I’m finally sharing my personal Starbucks order of choice: a White Chocolate Mocha. And if you’re here, I’m guessing you love these as much as I do. So next time you’re craving a sweet coffee treat in the morning but can’t bring yourself to put on pants and leave the house to get it, come back here for this recipe and make your White Chocolate Mocha at home....
In my reader survey from a couple of weeks ago, I asked if there were any specific posts you’d like to see on the blog, and to my delight, one of the most popular requests was for a post on meal planning. Guys, this makes me so happy because I LOVE meal planning. I do it religiously, and if you know me in real life, you’ll know that it’s something I try to convince everyone to do for themselves because it will absolutely change your life for the better....
Looking for more Single-Serving Recipes? Scroll through the Recipes for One archive or check out my Quick Macaroni and Cheese for One, Chicken Noodle Soup for One, and Fettuccine Alfredo for One! How was your holiday weekend? Did you take a vacation? Eat lots of good food? Spend time with family? Mine was fantastic. I celebrated my birthday, saw Finding Dory (like the grown up that I am), and did the whole family BBQ thing....
How do you feel about back-of-the-box recipes? You know, the recipes that come printed on food packaging. Do you ever make any of them? We were devoted users of the Nestlé back-of-the-bag chocolate chip cookie recipe in my house growing up, and as you might remember, my Sharp Cheddar and Broccoli Chowder was adapted from the recipe on a butter box pulled out of my recycling bin. So I’m all for trying these recipes because sometimes they turn out to be great....
These pancakes are everything good about fall: a brisk October morning, a worn-in slouchy sweater, a grande Pumpkin Spice Latte, all served up in a beautiful heaping stack of carbs. They’re completely delicious, perfectly fluffy, and really, really simple to make. If you have a can of pumpkin puree in your pantry, you probably have the ingredients make some pumpkin pancakes right now. Pumpkin Pancake Ingredients Buttermilk or buttermilk substitute: This recipe calls for buttermilk, which makes the pancakes soft and moist and just a little tangy....
I love a good milkshake, and a couple years ago I started uploading a bunch of milkshake recipes to the site (How to Make a Milkshake, The Best Vanilla Milkshake, Banana Milkshake, Oreo Milkshake, etc.). Since then, I have gotten a TON of requests for a milkshake without ice cream, and today that day has finally come. Let’s make a banana milkshake without ice cream. A No-Ice Cream Milkshake I’ll be totally honest, I was a little iffy about doing a no-ice cream shake....
So, yesterday I posted a recipe for the best homemade carnitas (have you checked it out yet?) and I have to admit, I am so glad to have finally finished that post because I have spent the last two months up to my eyeballs in carnitas doing recipe testing. As much as I love carnitas, there’s only so much super rich, delicious, crispy pork a girl can eat. My freezer is currently packed with it, and what I didn’t eat, I’ve been making into all sorts of delicious things these last two months....
