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True story: I didn’t learn how to make a proper classic grilled cheese sandwich until I was in my late teens. You need white bread and sliced american cheese to make perfect diner-style grilled cheeses and I was raised in a whole wheat and block cheddar household. The day I finally got my hands on some individually wrapped, processed as heck cheese slices and melted them over the whitest of white bread, stands out as the first great grilled cheese milestone in my life....

Saturday Morning Snapshot Photographed an “Avengers”-themed recipe this morning and then feasted like a Norse god… State of the Blog Around the internets, you can find Baking Mischief recipes in a few round ups this week. Cathy from Our Mini Family included my Salted Pretzel and Nutella Chip Cookies in her list of “10 Decadent Recipes to Help You Celebrate National Pretzel Day” and Renee of Renee Nicole’s Kitchen included my Quick Panko and Parmesan Broccoli in this fantastic roundup of “13 Flavor Filled Side Dishes”....

Weather check in time. How’s the weather in your part of the world? Here in sunny SoCal, it’s starting to get HOT. It’s hot and it’s the worst. We haven’t had our first 100° day yet, but I’m pretty sure it’s coming this weekend. I know a lot of people love warm weather, but I am not one of them, and in my book there is only one good thing about summer: summer means ice cream weather....

A few weeks ago, I asked my newsletter readers what fall recipes they’d like to see this year. The number one request was for pumpkin bread (an excellent choice), so I’m here today with the recipe for my very favorite pumpkin bread. This is a classic recipe. It’s the one I grew up with, and over the years, I’ve found that when people tell me they have an old family recipe for pumpkin bread, written in their grandmother’s handwriting on a well-used recipe card, it’s usually this one....

Hey, it’s strawberry season! My very favorite fruit season (except for maybe sweet cherry season), and the time when strawberries are so good and SO cheap (at least here in California) that I always end up buying way too many. Then I just have a pounds and pounds of strawberries sitting in my fridge or on my counter smelling amazing while I try to eat my way through them before they rot....

Hey, folks! Happy Thursday! As long-time Baking Mischief readers might know, I’m part of an awesome group of nerdy bloggers called Fandom Foodies. Every month one of us picks a favorite show/movie/book/game and we invite fellow fans from all over the Internet to come and create recipes inspired by our pick. It’s a super fun way to meet like-minded people, geek out a little, and eat good food! And guess whose turn it is to host this month!...

How is everyone doing after the holidays? Feeling a little heavier, a little slower? Did you have to loosen your belt buckle a notch or two? No? Just me. Okay. That’s fine. December was a glorious, sweet-filled extravaganza, but we’re in January now. It’s time for salads. Luckily, I have some great ones for you. Monday, I shared how to cook perfect chicken breasts for salads and sandwiches for just this purpose and for the rest of the month of January, we’ll have a new salad recipe every week, each one healthier and more delicious than the last....

Last month, I bought a bottle of Kahlua for a recipe and as I was “taste testing” it, I was overcome with the sudden urge to add some Kahlua deliciousness to everything (like maybe some Mini Kahlua Cheesecakes…). So fair warning, there are a few Kahlua recipes coming up in the next couple months. Might want to stock up now. To start, allow me to introduce Kahlua Tres Leches Cupcakes....

I firmly believe that there is a hot chocolate for every occasion (yes, even sweltering summer days can be hot chocolate days!). Some days call for a quick and easy cup of classic hot chocolate. And some days you need something so rich and decadent you’ll probably want to take a little nap afterwards. Today I’ve gone back into the Baking Mischief archives and pulled together all of my hot chocolate recipes so no matter what sort of hot chocolate day it is for you, you can find just the recipe you’re looking for....

Last week, in my Easy Peanut Butter Sauce post, I promised I’d be sharing some more single-serving dessert sauces this summer, and here we are for round two, Nutella Sauce for ice cream, pancakes, and waffles! This is another dead-easy, totally delicious sauce you can make in your microwave in about 30 seconds. Who’s excited? The sauce is gooey, fudgy, total chocolate and hazelnut goodness that takes a boring scoop of vanilla ice cream and turns it into a dreamy Nutella Sundae....

Today’s recipe is another super easy and fast dinner for weeknights, beef teriyaki. This beef teriyaki is one of my current favorite weeknight meals. Depending on how ambitious you’re feeling, it can be a two-ingredient dinner (use store-bought teriyaki sauce) or follow my recipe to make your own and feel super smug about the amazing homemade teriyaki sauce you just made from scratch (seriously, this sauce is the best). Whether you use store-bought or homemade sauce, this teriyaki beef comes out tender and tangy with lightly charred edges and is just perfect over a big bowl of rice....

Since I wrote my How to Make a Milkshake post a couple of years ago, I’ve added a bunch of milkshake recipes to the site, the best vanilla milkshake, my favorite chocolate milkshake, a fabulous strawberry milkshake, and thick banana milkshake. And today we’re covering one of my favorite fruity combos, a strawberry banana milkshake. This shake is rich and creamy, with a perfect balance of banana and strawberry and ideal for cooling you down on a warm day....

I have a ton of hot chocolate recipes on the site, but today I’m sharing my family’s absolute favorite hot chocolate recipe with you. A friend shared this recipe with me when I was in college, and I’ve made it for my family on Christmas Eve every single year since. We call it our Polar Express Hot Chocolate because it’s so extremely rich and creamy that it tastes just like the sort of thing you’d drink on a magical train on your way to Santa’s workshop....

This is my current go-to recipe for nights I don’t want to cook and I’m two seconds away from takeout or popcorn for dinner. It’s a super-simple one-pan dish, with almost no measuring involved, and the only thing you’re going to have to cut is a lemon. Batch-cooked or Meal Prep Chicken Thighs Heat oil in a large oven-safe skillet over medium-high heat and add the chicken, skin-side down. The chicken will pop and sizzle as it cooks....

Hey, friends. I have another rib recipe for you today, AMAZING, easy braised short ribs. After my Oven-baked Beef Ribs and Country-style Pork Ribs, these are the ribs I get asked about making most often, and honestly, that makes me so happy, because these ribs are kind of the best things ever. Properly cooked short ribs are fall-off-the-bone tender, decadently rich, and such a show stopper. They’ll make your house smell amazing while they cook, and if you need a meal to impress, braised short ribs are perfect for guests because they’re actually pretty difficult to screw up and are even better when made 24 hours in advance....

Hello and welcome to the only recipe on the site that is not taste tested and approved by yours truly. We are on our penultimate recipe of my Girl Scout Cookie Cupcake series and have reached the dreaded Samoa Cupcakes week. Guys, I have a confession: I don’t like shredded coconut. I don’t like shredded coconut on things, so really I don’t like Samoa cookies. But you know what I LOVE?...

Happy Tuesday, everyone! How were your Thanksgivings and Black Fridays? Was your turkey excellent? Did you buy anything fun? I spent Thanksgiving with the people in this world I’m most thankful for and skipped shopping on Friday to go see Moana with the family, so mine were both A++. And now that Thanksgiving is over, that means we are squarely in Christmas territory! I already started posting Christmas recipes last week with my Small-batch Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Buttercream, but this week we are really kicking things off with some small-batch Christmas cookies!...

We’ve hit week two of Nerd Month and I am having SO much fun. I hope you are too! When I told my RL people that I was doing an entire month on the blog dedicated to recipes inspired by my favorite pieces of pop culture, they were a little worried. To quote my sister (in her most concerned voice), “Someone’s going to edit those posts for you, right?” As though I would be too overcome with fangirling to be understood and intelligibly transcribe recipes....

How do you make dreamy, billowy whipped cream even better? Add a little spice. Whipping cinnamon into your cream creates a sweet and spicy topping that does absolutely wonderful things for whatever you’re serving it over. Pair it with a slice of pumpkin pie for an extra boost of cinnamon flavor or serve alongside a piece of chocolate cake and see how well chocolate and cinnamon go together. Ingredient Notes Heavy cream/heavy whipping cream: Have leftover heavy cream after making this?...

The photos in this post have been updated. Don’t worry. You’re in the right place. 😉 Have you seen that Campbell’s soup commercial with the sick guy lying on his couch trying to get his partner to make him soup? He tells her that his mom always used to make some for him when he wasn’t feeling well, and for a moment, it looks like she’s going to do it, but instead she just throws a phone at him, tells him to call him mom, and leaves him to wallow....