It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is just a few days away. It feels like it wasn’t that long ago that I was in the full swing of last year’s holiday season, baking up apple and pumpkin desserts and planning … Continue reading Chai Spiced Shortbread
A couple of weeks ago, we had our annual Field Day at work. For Field Day, our entire department takes the afternoon off to go to a park, have lunch with each other, and play cornhole and board games. In … Continue reading Caramelized Banana Pudding Cupcakes
Last weekend marked the first official day of Fall and the start of my favorite time of year. I love when the leaves start to change colors and it’s time to break out the sweaters (and, yes, when Starbucks brings … Continue reading Pumpkin Spice Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting
I have a confession to make: I love cosmic brownies. Even though they’re mass-produced sub-par brownies. They’re chocolatey and sugary and I love the candy coated chocolate pieces on top. So when I found these pretty pastel candy coated chocolate … Continue reading Homemade Cosmic Brownies
What do you do when you have half a batch of cream cheese frosting left in the fridge? You mix it with peanut butter and an egg and bake it on top of a blondie batter studded with peanut butter … Continue reading Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Blondies
In today’s episode of Ellie Gets Carried Away: this cake. This cake was meant to be a simple vanilla cake with Oreo frosting for one of my coworker’s birthdays, but as I kept daydreaming about it, it slowly morphed into this … Continue reading Cookies and Cream Cake
This recipe came about because I had half a pound of strawberries in the fridge that were about to go bad. I don’t love eating strawberries plain but I definitely wasn’t going to let them go to waste so I … Continue reading Strawberry Cheesecake Blondies
