Oat Coconut Cookies (Anzac Biscuits)
Oat Coconut Cookies (Anzac Biscuits) 7 ingredients vegetarian 8 cookies don’t meal prep These golden discs are anzac biscuits. I discovered them in Australia. They taste like a crunchy oats, browned butter, and toasted coconut. I tried skipping the golden syrup and using maple syrup and honey instead. They tasted like a nature valley […]
Apple Pie
Apple Pie 7 ingredients vegetarian 4-6 servings freezer friendly The difference between store-bought apple pie and this homemade version is impossible to express in writing. My attempt: this pie makes store-bought pie taste like shit. It patiently waits at the Thanksgiving dessert table, being passed over by people reaching for that pumpkin custard mush. But […]
Jack Skellington Pie
Jack Skellington Pie 5/10 ingredients vegetarian 8-12 servings freezer friendly I originally planned to make a scary face pie, but was told it would be too disgusting to eat. The pie itself is very easy to make if you use store-bought crust. I highly recommend you take this shortcut if you are just making it […]
Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Bread
Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Bread 9 ingredients vegetarian 1 square cake freezer-friendly The idea for this bread came to me when I was slathering peanut butter on chocolate banana bread. I realized the extra step could be eliminated by swirling the peanut butter into the batter. I used creamy skippy here. I’m not sure if […]
Thin Mint Cookie Sheet
Thin Mint Cookie Sheet 10 ingredients vegetarian 4-6 servings freezer friendly This is a giant thin mint cookie. Making thin mints requires cutting perfect circles out of cookie dough, wasting dough, melting chocolate, and wasting chocolate. This version is less laborious and wasteful. No cutting, melting, or dipping. All the dough is baked in a […]
Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Chocolate Zucchini Bread 10 ingredients vegetarian 1 loaf freezer friendly This bread tastes like a chocolate cake because it pretty much is a chocolate cake. Regarding chocolate zucchini bread, a lot of food blogs say something along the lines of “you don’t need to feel bad about eating this because it contains a vegetable”. First […]
Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
Cranberry Upside-Down Cake 10 ingredients vegetarian 10 servings freezer-friendly This is essentially a moist orange loaf baked on top of cranberry sauce with booze added. It’s an appropriate thing to make for the holidays since it’s festive-looking and contains alcohol. It’s also a cake that requires no decorating since the caramelized ruby-red berries take care […]
Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting
Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting 5 ingredients vegetarian 10-12 servings freezer-friendly Traditional cream cheese frosting uses a stick of butter and a block of cream cheese, which makes for a too-rich, heavy spackle that makes me feel like a sack of potatoes after eating it. This whipped cream cheese frosting has the same satisfying tang, with […]
Best Carrot Cake
My Best Carrot Cake 20 ingredients (!) vegetarian 10 servings meal prep friendly? I was tasked to bake a carrot cake for a wedding. After three failed test cakes and mounting self-loathing, I discovered that most internet-searched carrot cakes are greasy af and insultingly sweet. Replacing half the oil with carrot baby food was not […]
Nutella Banana Bread
Nutella Banana Bread 12 ingredients vegetarian (duh) 1 loaf This is not a subtle bread. It’s unapologetically indulgent and shouldn’t even be called a bread since it’s really just a loaf-shaped cake. If it were a person, he/she/they would be showy and obnoxious. That said, it has every right to show off. This nutella swirled […]