Easy slow cooker beef fajitas are a fantastic, cheap, and simple dinner for busy weeknights! It’s slow cooker month here on Baking Mischief, because anything that lets us avoid turning on the oven and adding to the stifling summer heat is welcomed and appreciated. Last week I posted my totally killer Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken Sandwiches for Two . Today we are switching over to beef, using a cheap, tough piece of meat and turning it into fantastic fall-apart tender and delicious fajitas!...

This easy recipe for Small-batch Chocolate Chip Cookies makes six perfect cookies in 20 minutes. I call these cookies my instant-gratification chocolate chip cookies because they go from cookie desire to cookie reality in 20 minutes. These photos have been updated. Don’t worry, you’re in the right place. 🙂 The Best Small-batch Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe This recipe is designed to make the best chocolate chip cookies possible FAST. It uses melted butter so there is zero waiting time for butter to come to room temperature AND you don’t have to chill the dough....

The EASIEST, best tasting lemon bars you’ve ever tried. Tart, sweet, and oh so pretty! Well, we’ve finished our first week of January. How is 2016 working out for you? Is it everything you hoped it would be? As of the writing of this, I’m down with one of those awful hacking colds, so I’m hoping week numero uno is not representative of my next 51! Considering that it’s healthy January, I debated whether or not to post any dessert recipes this month after the glut that was December....

This roasted bacon and butternut squash side dish is the perfect easy, no-fail fall side. A couple years ago, I shared this bacon and butternut squash mac and cheese . One of the steps calls for roasting the butternut squash in bacon grease and during testing I kept running into a problem with the recipe… Every time I made it, the squash would come out of the oven roasted and beautiful, and I would want to eat it all instead of pureeing it for cheese sauce....

These incredibly good shredded beef burritos are filled with cilantro rice, (slightly) spicy beans, and fall-apart tender beef. A couple months ago I shared my favorite freezer burritos with you, and today I have a spinoff version of that recipe, shredded beef burritos. These burritos still use the same cilantro rice and slightly spicy bean base but are stuffed with tangy homemade barbacoa shredded beef that is so good. This recipe makes 8 burritos so it’ll feed a family or freeze the burritos and have a whole bunch of lunches and dinners ready to go....

This Small Apple Cinnamon Cake is decadent and moist with big swirls of apple and cinnamon and a sweet powdered sugar glaze that sets and crinkles when you cut into it. A few months ago, ages before apple weather, when we were all still in shorts and sandals, eating ice cream (who am I kidding we’re still doing that here in California), I scrolled past this apple cake on Pinterest....

This Easy Chicken Cacciatore is boneless, skinless chicken thighs and mushrooms simmered in a rich tomato sauce and served over a bed of egg noodles for a fabulous weeknight meal. Looking for more easy pasta dishes? Try my Creamy Chicken Pasta With Bell Peppers and Chicken Asparagus Pasta for Two . Chicken cacciatore is one of my mom’s best dishes (her Carrot Cake is another of them). Growing up, nights when we got to have it for dinner were a big deal....

These carne asada tacos are made with tender and tangy marinated carne asada that is a total cinch to make and topped with lightly charred red onions, sliced avocados, and cilantro. Today I have for you another Carne Asada recipe made with my absolute favorite Carne Asada Marinade , super quick and simple Carne Asada Tacos. Easy Carne Asada Tacos Recipe These carne asada tacos are made with tender and tangy marinated carne asada that is a total cinch to make and topped with lightly charred red onions, sliced avocados, and cilantro....

Tender apple crumb muffins with caramelized cinnamon apples and a crunchy crumbly brown sugar crumb topping. These muffins are an apple cinnamon dream, packed full of caramelized fruit, they are sweet, cinnamon spicy, and amazing. And the crunchy streusel top is just the icing on the cake. This is a small-batch apple crumb muffin recipe, so as written, it yields six gorgeous little muffins, but you can double it with no preparation changes if you want a bigger batch....

20+ Pantry Desserts, dessert recipes you can make with just a handful of pantry staples. I’ve been meaning to write a post on this topic for a while, and since so many of us are at home stress baking from our cupboards anyway, now seemed like the perfect time to finally sit down and do it. Let’s talk about all the things you can bake with pantry staples. The amazing thing about baking is how many things you can make with just a handful of ingredients....

This rich and decadent mini chocolate sheet cake starts with a light and fluffy chocolate cake base and then gets smothered in a dreamy chocolate icing. Hey, guys, this will be the last recipe of 2016. I’ll be posting a round up of my f avorite Baking Mischief recipes of the year on Friday, but if you don’t drop by again before New Year’s, happy New Year!! I hope your New Year’s Eve is joyful and safe and New Year’s Day fresh and energizing....

This easy tomato soup is the perfect quick and easy lunch or dinner. To make it, you just need one can of tomatoes, a handful of pantry staples, and less than half an hour. Friend, this is some really good, really easy tomato soup. It’s sharp and tangy with just enough cream to take the edge off and add a really satisfying richness. It tastes like something whipped up in a charming bistro kitchen, but is so, so easy to make in yours....

Completely decadent frosted brownies perfect for parties, potlucks, and bake sales. Okay, you guys know I usually do small-batch desserts around here. But life isn’t all quiet nights in with your partner or a friend or two. Sometimes six cookies just aren’t going to cut it, and you need something sweet that will feed a crowd. That’s what I have for you today, a big batch of completely decadent frosted brownies perfect for parties, potlucks, and bake sales....

You’re going to love this pesto chicken sandwich. Sourdough, toasted in olive oil and topped with grilled chicken, pesto, Swiss cheese, and fresh tomatoes. A perfect easy dinner for a cozy night in. In the hierarchy of sandwiches, a Pesto Chicken Sandwich on Sourdough has to be near the top. You’ve got bright and salty pesto slathered over toasty sourdough and piled high with perfectly grilled chicken, cheese, and tomatoes....

This Small-batch Oatmeal Cookies recipe makes six big and beautiful cookies, perfectly sweet and spicy, packed with cinnamon and a bit of nutmeg and drizzled with vanilla icing. I have a question for you: Do you like oatmeal cookies? I’ll be honest, on oatmeal cookies in general, I’m pretty meh. Give me a big doughy oatmeal cookie, barely sweet, and stuffed full of raisins, and I’ll happily give it right back to you (bleh!...

This small-batch Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting is silky smooth, deeply chocolatey, and incredibly decadent. It’s pretty much the best thing you’ll ever spread onto a cupcake. I have another small-batch frosting recipe for you today, and this one is one of my favorites. This Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting is SO creamy and SO spectacularly good, good luck not just sitting there and eating it with a spoon (that’s what I like to do 😉)....

Saturday Morning Snapshot Ella, upon realizing she’s not invited to see Cap 3… State of the Blog You can find Baking Mischief recipes in a few roundups this week: Salted Pretzel and Nutella Chip Cookies in “ 17 Sweet And Salty Ways To Take Pretzels To The Next Level ” on BuzzFeed, Margherita Pizza in Karen’s Kitchen Stories’ Bread Box Round Up , and Ashley Benson’s site XOBenzo featured my Star Wars BB-8 Cupcakes for May the 4th in “ Star Wars Cupcakes That Will Blow Your Mind ....

The best way to cook asparagus in the oven for a quick and easy side dish. Hey, friends, popping in today with a super quick and simple vegetable side dish for you. Asparagus in the oven AKA roasted asparagus. This is one of my favorite easy, no-fuss side dishes, AND it’s the first vegetable I ever learned to cook as a kid. Now that it’s asparagus season here in California, it seemed like the perfect time to post this recipe....

Easy apple stuffing with crispy, buttery bread bread, celery, and tart apples. A perfect simple side dish for two. Growing up, we ate stuffing one time per year in my house. That time was Thanksgiving. The stuffing came out of a box. It was fine. It wasn’t until I got older that I realized 1) stuffing is carboliciously amazing. And 2) good stuffing is suuuuuuuper easy to make. Like ridiculously easy....

This fabulous creamy homemade cheese sauce is one of the quickest, easiest sauces to make. It’s perfect for dipping broccoli and other veggies or drizzling over baked potatoes, nachos, or french fries. You’ll be so glad to have this little recipe in your back pocket because it’s so useful and versatile. Need a quick lunch? Steam some broccoli in the microwave and top with cheese sauce. Nachos for dinner? Cheese sauce....