Funfetti Cupcakes

Funfetti Cupcakes are a moist, delicious, and colorful way to relive a childhood favorite.  Whip up a batch of these to celebrate a birthday, or anytime you want a fun and festive dessert!  

Lemon Coconut Cookies

Lemon Coconut Cookies are an elegant, melt-in-your mouth treat combining the tartness of fresh citrus with the sweetness of coconut.  

Funfetti Macaroons

Need a quick and easy treat?  These Funfetti Macaroons will remind you of eating birthday cake.  Even better, these sprinkle-filled cookies are ready in just 30 minutes!  

Favorite Vanilla Bean Cupcakes with Vanilla Bean Meringue Buttercream

My Favorite Vanilla Bean Cupcakes with Vanilla Bean Buttercream: soft and airy vanilla bean cupcakes have a moist, fine crumb.  Topped with a silky smooth vanilla bean buttercream, these are the best cupcakes I've ever made.  

Coconut Macaroon Birds' Nests

Coconut Macaroon Birds' Nests feature a delicious combination of coconut, salted caramel, and malted milk eggs.  With the whimsical resemblance to a bird's nest, these little cookies are sure to delight guests at your next spring gathering!

Super Simple St. Patrick's Day Cookies

When you're short on time but still want to whip up a festive dessert, these Super Simple St. Patrick's Day cookies are just the answer.  Start with a basic sugar cookie dough, grab some fun cookie cutters, and add the sprinkles directly to the cookies.  By omitting the royal icing, you'll save yourself hours of decorating and drying time!

Herbed Cranberry Cornmeal Biscuits

  

Herbed Cranberry Cornmeal Biscuits are flaky and buttery, with the perfect balance of tangy cranberries and savory thyme.  These tender biscuits would be a welcome addition to your Thanksgiving table, or any meal!    

Oreo Cookie Halloween Fudge

Oreo Cookie Fudge is the perfect recipe for any Halloween party.  It's a quick and easy no-bake treat that is sure to delight young and old.  Use special-edition Halloween Oreos to achieve the bright orange color.  

For years and years, I feared candy making.  Every time I found a candy recipe that I wanted to try, the instructions would be filled with unfamiliar and intimidating candy-making terminology: hard crack, soft crack, hard ball (with Chris Matthews?), firm ball, soft ball (that's a sport, right?).  For years and years, I also didn't own a candy thermometer.  Whenever I tried a candy recipe, I'd be forced to "guess" whether my candy had reached the right temperature.  As I'm sure you can imagine, I've made some pretty terrible candy.

Birthday Cake Truffle Recipe (inspired by Momofuku Milk Bar)

I have a confession: Although I have lived in the greater New York area for five years, I haven't been to any of David Chang's ten NYC restaurants.  Not to Noddle Bar, or Ssäm Bar,  or Ko, or Má Pêche or even any of the Milk Bar locations.  For someone who claims to love food, that's a pretty terrible record. 

However, I have had the chance to enjoy a famous B'Day Cake Truffle from Momofuku Milk Bar.  The truffles are small treats no larger than the size of a donut hole.  But one bite was enough to convince me that I shouldn't wait much longer before making a dedicated trip to Milk Bar.     

Until I make that long-awaited trip, I thought I would try whipping up a batch of birthday cake truffles at home.  Luckily, a few other bloggers had already done some research into this very topic.  I found the recipe for the cake and cake crumbs on The Baker Chick, and my process for making the truffles is very similar to the one shared by Bake Like a New Yorker.  I made a few adaptations, such as adding oreo cream and decreasing the amount of cream cheese.  I also substituted rainbow nonpareils for the regular rainbow sprinkles.  It was a minor change that had a pleasant result: when I added the nonpareils, the batter turned a delightful shade of light pink.