If you’ve had a long, tiring work week, a good movie, a glass of wine, and a bowl of this Cinnamon Bun Popcorn is the very best way to celebrate its end! For Christmas this year, family on the East Coast sent a big box of gourmet popcorn. It was basically the best Christmas gift ever because I love popcorn, and I love choices, and this was just a giant box of different popcorn flavor choices....

Make your own sweet and creamy iced caramel latte at home with just a few simple ingredients. As we head into warmer weather, I’m more than ready to dust off all my favorite cold and frosty drink recipes. Hot chocolate can take a little break. It’s time for iced mochas , iced white chocolate mochas , and all the iced chai lattes we can drink. Today let’s make another icy coffee house favorite, an iced caramel latte....

It’s easy to make your own sweet and refreshing iced dirty chai latte at home with just a handful of ingredients. A couple months ago, I posted a dirty chai latte recipe that’s been a reader favorite. Since we’re heading into warmer weather, it felt like a good time to show you how to transform that warming winter drink into something icy, refreshing, and perfect for spring and summer. Time to make an iced dirty chai latte....

This quick and easy penne alla vodka with chicken is made with a silky smooth, incredibly rich and creamy vodka sauce and can be on the table in about 30 minutes. A couple months ago, I shared my go-to vodka sauce on the blog. One of my favorite things about that sauce other than it being ridiculously good and absurdly quick and easy is that it’s the perfect base recipe....

These Small-batch Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting are easy to make and so, so good. Ready for some pumpkin cupcakes that are soft, incredibly moist, and exactly perfect for fall (or almost fall, whatever)? This recipe will make four adorable cupcakes, which is the perfect number if you don’t need to make cupcakes today, but there’s a pumpkin cupcake song in your heart. Ingredients Baking staples: Most of the ingredients for these cupcakes are basic baking staples, flour, baking powder, salt, granulated, brown, and powdered sugar, and vanilla extract....

The quickest and easiest way to make a homemade buttermilk substitute with just two ingredients. Hey, friends, today we’re going to chat about the whys and hows of making a homemade buttermilk substitute. But if you’re in the middle of a recipe and just need that info quick, here you go: Buttermilk Substitute Ratio Add the following amount of lemon juice (fresh or bottled) or white vinegar to your measuring cup and fill the cup the rest of the way with milk, stir, and continue baking....

20+ banana recipes to use up those browning bananas sitting on your counter. Have some ripe bananas on your counter and not quite sure what to do with them? My friend, I have so many ideas for you. Below you’ll find some fabulous banana recipes to use up those bananas, both from Baking Mischief and around the internet divided by exactly how many bananas you’ll need to make them. But before we get to the recipes…...

8 kitchen tools under $20 that will change the way you cook! Whelp, it happened again. I had another recipe development failure. Last time I scrapped a recipe this far into the development process, the thing as a whole was just kind of a dud. This time it was for shallower reasons. The recipe tasted amazing but was so ugly that I would not have touched it if it hadn’t come out of my kitchen!...

Coffee whipped cream is a sweet and sophisticated alternative to traditional whipped cream. It’s rich, full of coffee flavor, and irresistible spooned over chocolate desserts. Alright, coffee lovers, I have a little treat for you today. We all know regular whipped cream is great. A spoonful of chocolate whipped cream is positively sinful, and cream cheese whipped cream should be eaten by the spoonful. But you know what all those recipes are missing?...

Classic ooey, gooey 5-minute fudge sauce perfect for drizzling over ice cream, brownies, or pancakes and waffles. Hey, friends. Over the last couple years, I’ve added a few quick and easy single-serving dessert sauces to the site: 30-Second Easy Chocolate Sauce Peanut Butter Sauce Nutella Sauce 2-ingredient Magic Chocolate Shell And I have another one for you today: Hot Fudge Sauce (for one). This is your classic ooey, gooey fudge sauce that is perfect for drizzling over ice cream , brownies , maybe even some pancakes or waffles if you’re feeling real wild in the AM....

Microwave carrots are one of the quickest and easiest ways to add some veggies to your plate. The bright and sweet combo of steamed carrots with a tab of butter and sprinkle of salt and fresh ground pepper is total comfort food and absolutely worth the (extremely minimal) prep. I have another quick and easy steamed vegetable recipe for you today: microwave carrots! Microwave Carrots: The Easiest Way to Cook Carrots This might not seem like the most glamorous way to cook your carrots, but friend, if you’re short on time, it is one of the quickest and easiest ways to get some veggies on your plate....

This Mini Coffee Cake is light and fluffy with a ridiculously good buttery, crunchy, crumbly streusel layer over the top. It serves four, but you might not want to share… Say hello to the world’s perfect (mini) coffee cake. And by perfect, I mean perfect. It’s light, fluffy, cinnamon spicy, and has the ideal ratio of cake to crumbles. There was a moment as I was testing this cake for the first time, dropping handfuls of sugar and butter crumbles over the cake batter, that I was like, okay, this is an excessive amount of streusel, even for me....

These small-batch Shortbread Pumpkin Pie Bars are everything you love about pumpkin pie, but with an easy shortbread base, crunchy streusel topping, and sweet cream drizzle! Are you sick of pumpkin yet? I’m not, and I’ve been testing pumpkin recipes since August. TBH, I spend most of the year just waiting for October in all its pumpkin-flavored glory to roll around, so I’ll happily stay here eating Pumpkin Donuts with Maple Glaze , Pumpkin Shortbread Cookies , and Pumpkin Eclairs as long as the air is crisp and the leaves are red and gold....

These Small-batch Chocolate Chip Muffins are incredibly soft and moist and packed full of chocolate chips. I went a little muffin crazy this summer and have posted a bunch of small-batch muffin recipes over the last couple of months. There were Small-batch Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins , Small-batch Orange Muffins , and Small-batch Blueberry Muffins . And today, I have some Small-batch Chocolate Chip Muffins for you. This is the last muffin recipe I have on the calendar for now, but if there’s something you’d like to see, shoot me an email ....

Apple Pie Cupcakes: soft and fluffy vanilla cake wrapped around a miniature apple pie with homemade caramel frosting on top. You’re going to love these! Spoilers for Big Fish follow. Today’s (barely) creepy recipe in my month of creepy fictional foods (the first post was Hannibal’s Sanguinaccio Dolce , check it out!) is also a part of #Burtoween. What’s Burtoween? Well, you might remember last month I made Jigglypuff Pink Cream Puffs for #Pokenom, hosted by The Gluttonous Geek , where a bunch of fellow bloggers posted Pokemon-inspired recipes across all of our sites....

Saturday Morning Snapshot Made crepes for the first time today! They were somehow both more and less difficult than I had anticipated, but so good. State of the Blog How was everyone’s week? Mine was preeeeety great because I was gifted a kitchen torch and have spent every day since dreaming of all the delightful foods I can set alight with it. Do you have any handy kitchen gadgets you love?...

Three different recipes for quick and easy 2-ingredient pupsicles to keep your dog cool this summer. Hey, friends, how is your summer treating you? And just as importantly, how is summer treating your four-legged best friend(s)? Are you guys melting in the heat? Ella and I are. Ella, slowly melting. The only thing keeping us from fully turning into puddles is air-conditioning and oodles and oodles of frozen treats ( Pudding Pops and Wine Popsicles for me, Watermelon and Yogurt Frozen Dog Treats for Ella)....

Yesterday, I wrote about 2015 in review. Today, we’re looking ahead to 2016. New Year’s Day means New Year’s resolutions. And New Year’s resolutions mean dreams big and small. These are mine for the year: In 2016… I resolve to remember that cooking is for pleasure and food is about fuel , not how it will look in photographs for my blog. I will learn to love cleaning as I cook ....

These beef ramen noodles cook up fast and easy with tender slices of beef and broccoli florets in a quick garlic and ginger sauce. I have another comfort food recipe for you today, one of my personal favorites, beef ramen noodles. There’s just something about sitting down with a giant bowl of ramen noodles and beef that is so cozy and satisfying. Best of all, this dish is super easy, and once you have your ingredients assembled, it comes together FAST....

Jello shots with a major flavor upgrade. Candy-sweet and topped with triple sec whipped cream, you’ll actually want to savor these shots! We’ve hit week two of Nerd Month and I am having SO much fun. I hope you are too! When I told my RL people that I was doing an entire month on the blog dedicated to recipes inspired by my favorite pieces of pop culture, they were a little worried....