Before we start today, have you signed up for my new Weekly Newsletter? I just sent out my first one last week, to rave reviews (thanks, Mom 😉 ). You get a round up of the week’s posts, an exclusive preview of posts to come, and I share some of my favorite recipes and articles from around the web. Plus, when you sign up, you receive a free mini e-cookbook, A Week of Easy Recipes for Two....
I’ve had a few emails lately asking for more quick and simple dinner recipes, so today I bring you my current favorite easy, speedy weeknight dinner: creamy sausage pasta. Friend, you’re going to love this pasta so much. The sauce is bright and creamy and so, so good served over a big bowl of pasta. Best of all, it’s practically zero effort to make. Ingredients Your favorite pasta: I like rigatoni here, but use whatever you’ve got....
Craving something sweet and peanut buttery but don’t have any flour in your cupboard? You should make a little batch of monster cookie bars… Monster cookie bar recipes usually make an entire sheet pan of bars, but this small-batch recipe bakes in a loaf pan and makes just 6 to 8 cookie bars, which is probably good right now, because they are ridiculously addicting, and however many you make is probably how many you will eat....
Welcome to the last cupcake in my Girl Scout Cupcake Series! Over the course of the month, we’ve had Tagalong Cupcakes, based on my personal favorite Girl Scout cookies. There were the intensely peanut buttery Do-si-do Cupcakes. And last week, we had Samoa Cupcakes for people who like that sort of thing, which I hear are delicious, but cannot confirm. <3 Today we tackle the best-selling Girl Scout cookie, Thin Mints!...
Another month gone, another blog series complete! This month the theme was Hot Sandwiches, and it was a delicious, fantastic, and incredibly frustrating-to-photograph 30 days! After all the fighting I did trying to take pictures of these things, I can’t say I’m sad to say goodbye to this series, but I am pretty pleased with the tastiness of the recipes I got to share on the blog. Sandwiches on the Blog This Month: The last sandwich in the series on went up on Monday, but before we say goodbye to April, I’ve rounded up 20 more AMAZING hot sandwiches from my lovely fellow bloggers to give you even more delicious lunch/dinner ideas....
Hey, it’s asparagus season! Here in California, asparagus season runs about February through June, and in celebration of this happy time, I’m sharing one of my favorite easy asparagus recipes: Asparagus-stuffed Chicken Breasts. This is a great, simple dinner that’s easy enough for weeknights, but looks good enough to serve for company when you need something foolproof and delicious. It’s also one of those dishes that you have to work really hard to mess up....
It’s very nearly fall. And you know what that means. Time for sweet and warming coffee drinks! Today’s recipe is perfect for chilly fall mornings if you’ve already reached your Pumpkin Spice Latte quota for the year, a Caramel Latte. Caramel lattes are one of the easiest sweet coffee recipes to make at home. All you need is caramel, coffee or espresso, a little sugar, and milk. Ingredient Notes Coffee: True lattes are made with espresso, but most people don’t have espresso makers in their kitchen, so this recipe uses brewed coffee....
It’s been a while since I last posted a salad recipe. The last one was in goes to look it up holy cow, January 2016. (Also, that salad recipe is great, but the pictures are so old and ugly—go look at them if you want a laugh.) The reason for the lack of salads is that even though I love them, salad recipes just don’t do that well on the site....
Vanilla milkshakes sometimes get a bad rap as being a little boring, a little, shall we say, vanilla. But you know what? A good vanilla milkshake is a thing of beauty, and today we’re going to make a really good vanilla milkshake. A Really Good Vanilla Milkshake Recipe There are three things we’re going to do to make the best vanilla milkshake possible: Start with good-quality ice cream. I’m usually team cheap ice cream for milkshakes, but since we’re not adding other flavors here, you really want a good base....
If you’ve ever sipped a mocha and thought I wonder what would happen if I added ice cream to this, one, I like the way you think, and two, today’s recipe is for you. Also, the answer to that question is magic. Magic is what happens with you mix ice cream and coffee. ❤️ This coffee milkshake is all your sweet coffee dreams come true. It’s thick and creamy with a rich coffee and chocolate flavor....
You all keep asking me for easy weeknight meals, and as long as you keep asking, I’ll keep making them. Today’s entry in the quick and easy dinner category is creamy chicken tortellini soup. This soup cooks in a little over half an hour with minimal fuss or effort and turns out so creamy and satisfying. It’s a total crowd-pleaser for hardly any effort. Ingredient Notes Cooked chicken: This recipe calls for shredded or chopped cooked chicken....
Last year around this time, I posted my Easy Overnight Cinnamon Rolls for Two. They were one of the first really popular recipes on the site, and are probably the sweet recipe I get the most positive feedback on (thank you to everyone who has tagged me on pictures of them on Instagram–I LOVE seeing them!!). Since they’ve been so well-loved, I wanted to do another version this year, but the truth is, those cinnamon rolls are basically my perfect sweet rolls....
We made it to Friday! What are you doing for the long weekend? Do you have any fun Easter plans? I plan on enjoying the spring sunshine with some long, rambling walks, testing a few new recipes, and eating far too much Easter candy on Sunday morning. Today’s recipe is another decadent chocolate dessert (because after last Friday’s Small-batch Chocolate Cupcakes, of course we needed even more chocolate), Small-batch Chocolate Cookies With Oreos and Andes....
Hey, friends, it’s been a couple weeks since I last posted a dessert around here. The last ones were these Chocolate Banana Muffins (SO good) and Chocolate Cookie Dough Cupcakes (Cookie dough!!!) at the end of February, and that was too long ago. So, here today to make your life a little sweeter, I have Small-batch Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies. Frosted Sugar Cookies!!! Folks, if ever there were a recipe that needed to be made small batch (this recipe makes just six), it’s Frosted Sugar Cookies, because these things are ADDICTING....
Love homemade cheesecake but don’t love actually turning on your oven and baking one? Friend, I have just the recipe for you. These Oreo cheesecake bites have all the cream cheesy goodness of a baked cheesecake with about five percent of the effort so you can make them all the time. These bites are SO GOOD. On the bottom is a buttery Oreo crumb crust and then the cheesecake layer is a sweet and creamy combo of cream cheese, whipped cream, and vanilla with even more chopped Oreos throughout because obviously, our Oreo cheesecake must contain A LOT of Oreos....
Heeeeey, I have something a little nerdy and a lot delicious to start off your Monday! It’s been a little while since I’ve posted a nerdy recipe. After my Creepy Recipes From Fiction series (Sanguinaccio Dolce and Game of Thrones Frey Pie, anyone?) back in October, it’s been quiet on the nerdy front, but not any longer, because I’m sharing an X-men-inspired recipe today!! My friend Heather is hosting Fandom Foodies this month over at Food ‘n Flix Club (you can read more about Fandom Foodies in my Apple Pie Cupcakes Post), and in honor of Logan coming out a few weeks ago, she chose X-men for March’s theme....
Welcome to nerd month here on the blog! For the month of May, instead of doing our usual once-a-week themed recipe series, every single recipe this month is inspired by a favorite film, book, or television show! Basically, it’s an excuse to write about and try to convince you to watch/read all of my favorites through food. And I’m so excited for it. I’ve already photographed a bunch of them, and I think May is going to be a lot of fun (for me at least 😉 )....
Happy Friday! Did you have a good work week? Today is an exciting day around here, because today, Baking Mischief turns two years old! December 1, 2015, I hit publish on my first recipe, Butterscotch Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies, and now two years, hundreds of recipes, and millions (millions!!) of visitors later, here we are. Thank you to those of you who have been following along from the beginning and to those who joined up along the way....
Microwaved sweet potatoes are incredibly versatile. Serve them as a quick and easy side dish, load them up with toppings for a filling dinner or add butter and cinnamon sugar and they make a sweet and cozy breakfast. For everyone else, let’s chat a little more about sweet potatoes… How long to microwave a sweet potato? After poking holes in a medium sweet potato, cook for 2 1/2 minutes per side....
Last weekend my parents were in LA for a concert, so I asked them to drop by Crate and Barrel to pick me up a pastry slab while they were there. I may have underestimated the terribleness of LA parking, because my poor wonderful, lovely parents, and my sister, with whom they were staying, ended up having to carry the solid marble board through the streets of LA back to where they’d left their car....
