I have a shameful admission to make: I don’t like Girl Scout Cookies. I think Samoas might be the Pumpkin Spice Latte of the cookie world. It’s not that it’s so good, you just can’t get it all year long. Does anyone really like Thin Mints, or do we all just pretend so we don’t look like assholes? Look, the girls are cute and the cause is great, but the cookies suck and they're sucking my wallet dry. You're Cute, Kid, But Your Cookies Suck... This isn’t a political statement. The Girl Scouts of America is an admirable organization, impressive in its inclusiveness, with programs that Keep Reading >>>
What To Do When You’re Sick Of Santa (And Christmas In General)…
When my dad was a kid, he and his brother got these barber-pole sized peppermint candy canes in their Christmas stockings. Being boys, and being presented with more candy than they probably saw all year—because it was the olden days, when he had to walk to school in a snowstorm, uphill both ways—they each ate the whole thing in one sitting. Dad was never so sick. And you know what you got for an upset stomach Back In the Day? Pepto-Bismol. For the rest of his 69 years, Dad would not touch peppermint flavored anything. But just the sight of Pepto-Bismol pink would turn him Keep Reading >>>
The 12 Baking Tips Of Christmas
Whether you are a seasoned chef or a backseat baker with a thousand viewing hours of Chopped, there are lots of little tips and tricks to getting the perfect pastry. Unfortunately we usually only figure them out after an epic baking fail. Here are some hard earned bits of baking wisdom that I’ve learned from my Mom and my own baking mistakes. Hopefully YOU won’t set your oven on fire. The 12 Baking Tips Of Christmas... The 12 Baking Tips Of Christmas 1. If you are making a single crust icebox pie and all you have to bake is the bottom crust, odds are you’ll just try to toss that sucker Keep Reading >>>
All That Glitters Is Not Food: The Truth About Edible Glitter
I don’t know about you guys, but with the holidays approaching my Pintrest boards are filling up with all kinds of yummy looking desserts. I don’t mean the basic chocolate chip cookie or pumpkin pie recipes. Yawn. I’m talking about the cakes and cookies and homemade chocolates coated in so much edible glitter they look like they fell out of a unicorn’s butt and bounced straight into a Lisa Frank fever dream. All That Glitters Is Not Food: The Truth About Edible Glitter Edible glitter! What a time we live in! Before shopping for wedding cupcakes six years ago, I didn’t even know edible Keep Reading >>>
Easter Chick Sugar Cookies
So since you've read the title of this post, I bet you think you know what you're in for with this recipe. You're thinking, "Oh yeah, another Easter post with little baby chicks in it, yeah sure that's cute, I've seen that before..." But y'all need to understand something about these cookies, okay: I was not prepared. I was not prepared for how cute these things would turn out to be. I made the stupid things and I was not prepared. I mean, really. These Easter Chick Sugar Cookies have no right being this adorable. And you know, I've always thought it was a little weird when people looked at Keep Reading >>>
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