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This easy streusel topping is crumbly, crunchy, sweet, and perfect for topping muffins and quick breads. A good streusel recipe immediately improves anything you sprinkle it over. It adds texture, crunch, and a buttery sweetness that can take a boring old muffin or loaf of quick bread and make it feel like a total treat. Today I’m sharing my favorite streusel recipe with you. I’ve used it on a few recipes here in the past, on pumpkin bread , donuts , and muffins , but it’s so good I figured it was time to give it a stand-alone recipe....

Slow cooker baked potatoes piled high with broccoli and a glorious cheddar cheese sauce. Perfect for Meatless Mondays! Welcome to our March blog series. After January salads and February soups, we’re tackling something I’m a little less comfortable with, Meatless Monday meals. I love the idea of Meatless Monday. I think it can be hugely impactful on your health, your wallet, and the environment. But in practice, I’m pretty terrible at it....

This creamy and rich Baked Potato Soup is the perfect comfort food. Loaded with bacon, sour cream, and sharp cheddar cheese, it’s a cold-weather crowd-pleaser that everyone will love! Potato soups are one of my go-to comfort foods whenever I want something rich and hearty, and you all seem to really enjoy them too, so I’ve posted a bunch of them to the site. My Ham and Potato Soup , Cheesy Sausage Potato Soup , and Broccoli Potato Soup are all reader favorites....

Saturday Morning Snapshot Cap 3 screenings have begun, time to go on the spoiler offensive… State of the Blog My Slow Cooker Baked Potatoes With Broccoli and Cheese Sauce were featured in a Redbook round up of slow cooker meals on their site this week. The caption they gave it cracked me up, and if you are looking for some super easy dinners, go check out the fantastic other recipes in that post!...

What to Do With Leftover Tomato Paste: how to store it, freeze it, and 10+ recipe ideas to use up the leftovers. Heya, friends. It feels like a good time for another entry in my “Waste Not” series, a series dedicated to reducing food waste in the kitchen. So far on this topic, I’ve written posts for: What to Do With Leftover Egg Yolks & Egg Whites What to Do With Leftover Pesto What to Do With Leftover Whipping Cream What to Do With Leftover Buttermilk What to Do With Leftover Pumpkin Puree Today, we’re tackling tomato paste, an ingredient that adds tons of flavor to whatever dish you use it in, but one that often goes to waste since a little goes a long way....

Buttered noodles are the ultimate fast and easy comfort food. All you need are 15 minutes, and you can have a big bowl of buttery, lightly cheesy pasta ready to go. When it comes to fast, simple meals, it really doesn’t get easier than buttered noodles. This is a staple of so many people’s childhoods, but if it’s been a while, I’m here today to say you should totally start eating them again as an adult....

Cottage pie is the ultimate cozy comfort food. Ground beef, onions, carrots, and peas in a thick and luscious gravy with a golden brown mashed potato topping. So today I present to you, a full-size COTTAGE pie, because I love you guys and I want you to be happy. <3 What is cottage pie? Cottage pie is basically shepherd’s pie made with ground beef. The beef filling includes garlic, onions, carrots, and peas, which all cook in a thick and luscious gravy....

These easy Cheese Fries are the ultimate indulgent comfort food. Today I have a fun and easy snack/meal/midnight kitchen project for you, cheesy fries! Easy Cheesy Fries If you’re looking for something indulgent and comforting, you really can’t beat a plate of homemade fries loaded with creamy, glorious cheese sauce . The good news (and maybe bad news) is that this is extremely easy to make at home, and all you need is a couple of russet potatoes, cheddar cheese, and some fridge and pantry staples....

These were my favorite Baking Mischief recipes of 2018. <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://i2.wp.com/bakingmischief.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favorite-posts-2018-683x1024.jpg" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“Collage photo of food images with text: “My favorite recipes of 2018” - 1”> Hey, friends. Happy last few days of 2018! I hope your holidays have been merry. This will be my last post of 2018, and as I do at the end of every December, I’ve compiled a list of my favorite posts of the year....

12 nerdy mugs perfect for gifting and drinking holiday cheer from. Is it weird that one of my favorite things about being on the internet at Christmas is seeing people’s gift guides? It’s like window shopping without having to put on shoes and leave the house. With all the (exciting) stress of Baking for Two coming out last month and general holiday craziness, I didn’t think I’d have time to write a gift guide this year, but then I remembered that I accidentally did the homework for this post a couple of months ago when I went down a rabbit hole of nerdy mugs and bookmarked approximately half of Etsy....

How to Steam Cauliflower in the Microwave for a quick and simple side or to use in recipes that call for cooked cauliflower. So, you guys know I love a good kitchen hack. And try and tell me that “hacks” are so 2015 and I’ll shove my fingers in my ears whilst (simultaneously) typing a 500-word post about how you should whip your egg whites for the fluffiest pancakes or how to use two simple ingredients to make a killer 30-second Chocolate Sauce ....

This hearty and simple beef stew is made completely from scratch and is absolutely delicious, just like Mom used to make it. Today’s recipe is one of my absolute favorite comfort foods, my mom’s simple and easy, completely from scratch homemade beef stew. And when I say completely from scratch, I mean from scratch. There’s no beef broth, no packets of flavoring mix, no consommé in here. It’s chunks of beef chuck, vegetables, and spices, and a couple hours of long, low simmering time....

This Small-batch Vanilla Cupcakes recipe makes six fabulous moist vanilla cupcakes topped with a quick and easy American buttercream frosting. Happy Friday, friends. How has your week been? Not going to lie, mine has been STRESSFUL. Between all the garbage in the world right now and Baking Mischief breaking itself twice(!!) within 24 hours (Were you around for the site weirdness on Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning? It was not pretty.), “chill” has not been a word in my vocabulary this week....

This creamy and marvelous White Hot Chocolate can be made with just two ingredients in five minutes. Hey friend, how is the weather where you are right now? Here in California, it’s just starting to cool down, and you know what that means. It’s hot chocolate weather! (AKA the best weather.) If it’s hot chocolate weather where you are today, you should absolutely treat yourself to a cup of something warm and sugary....

This healthy ham and potato soup is pure comfort food in a bowl. Easy, fast, and low-calorie, it’s one of my favorite busy weeknight meals. The photos in this post have been updated. Don’t worry. You’re in the right place. 😉 Have you seen that Campbell’s soup commercial with the sick guy lying on his couch trying to get his partner to make him soup? He tells her that his mom always used to make some for him when he wasn’t feeling well, and for a moment, it looks like she’s going to do it, but instead she just throws a phone at him, tells him to call him mom, and leaves him to wallow....

Incredibly easy, incredibly good Roasted Zucchini can be prepped in about 5 minutes and makes a perfect weeknight side dish. I have a handful of easy, go-to side dishes. Most of them are already on the site (like my Butter and Garlic Green Beans , Roasted Broccoli , and Roasted Green Beans ). And today I’m adding another: incredibly easy, incredibly good Roasted Zucchini. Roasted Zucchini is one of those side dish recipes you’ll be glad to have in your back pocket for busy weeknights because it’s easy to prep, tastes great, and is pretty much foolproof....

Fudgy, chocolatey Homemade Pudding Pops are surprisingly easy to make and SO good. You just need a popsicle mold, some milk, sugar, a little cornstarch, and chocolate. Hey, when was the last time you had a pudding pop? Maybe it’s been years. Maybe you’ve never tried one. Well, you should fix that today, because these homemade pudding pops are THE BEST THINGS. Like, I don’t want to over-hype these popsicles, but they are legitimately one of my favorite recipes I’ve made for the blog....

How to make chicken stock: your complete guide to making an easy, rich, and delicious chicken stock at home. A while back I posted an epic guide to making Roasted Chicken (which you should definitely go read if you haven’t already!). And as a follow-up, I have another guide for you: How to make chicken stock (from the leftover chicken carcass). If you’ve never made homemade chicken stock before, friend, you are in for such a treat....

My favorite banana bread recipe makes some of the best banana bread you’ll ever eat. It’s incredibly easy to make and bakes up soft and moist with an irresistible cinnamon sugar crust. As a food blogger, I get asked for recipe suggestions all the time, and I’m usually thrilled to oblige (it’d be silly to run a food blog if I weren’t). But there’s one recipe people ask me about the most that I just didn’t have a good answer for, banana bread....

This Rich and Thick Hot Chocolate for One is the creamiest, most decadent hot chocolate imaginable. I have a very important question for you on this gray Monday morning. What is your perfect cup of hot chocolate? Is it lightly sweet? Is it sweetly bitter? Is it, as my sister so helpfully put it trying to describe her perfect hot chocolate, “fluffy,” “not hard,” and “Scottish?” (Sidebar: Whaaaaaat???) My perfect cup goes a little something like this: thick, creamy, and decadent as hell....