Katya's 21st!!!

LOVE Birthdays!!! A GREAT reason to make a cake! :)
This is my go-to chocolate cake recipe. It's the first time I decorated with vanilla frosting. And this frosting tasted great! I saved the extra to eat with...well, whatever will be good with frosting? My cake writing skills need some work, but the cake itself = YUMMMMMYYYYYY! and Oreos make everything better :)


Cake + frosting (before I spread it)

Spread the SCRUMPTIOUS chocolate oreo frosting. Yes, I included crushed up oreos in this frosting recipe!
Happy Birthday!

Way better than store-bought :)

Chocolate Chip and Jam Thumbprint Cookies!

Made these to bring into work :) I hadn't made a classic chocolate chip cookie in awhile, and these were nice and soft! I had a few requests for non-chocolate things (which I don't make unless someone wants...because I'm a choco-holic) so I made the thumbprints! I haven't made them for a few years so it was fun to make them again! And even though I'm a chocolate lover, I think the thumbprints were delicious! :-D

peanut butter fudge brownies...orgasmic

I am addicted to these. So perfect after getting off work at midnight! :-P
Seriously, the best, fudgy-est, peanut-buttery, brownies. yummm

Chocolate Cookies with Peanut Butter Chips and Reeces Pieces

These are my brother and sister's favorite cookie! yummy chocolate base with peanut butter chips and reeses pieces. a mouth full of amazing chocolate and peanut butter deliciousness.

I just recently made these for my friend at work who is moving out of state! She said she liked chocolate and peanut butter....so to me, that meant this cookie! :) I brought her in her own batch, and more to share! They lasted less than 2 hours!
nom nom nom!
So yummy1

Oatmeal Peanut Butter Stuff Cookies

Do you like peanut butter? chocolate? oatmeal? soft flavorful cookies?

Then this is the cookies for you!
Around Easter time, I felt like making a unique cookie. In my room I had a bag of peanut butter cups, a bag of butterfinger eggs (aka Easter themed butterfingers), and ~ 1/4 of a bag of peanut m&ms. I love oatmeal cookie as a base. And that's how this cookie got started.

chock-full of peanut butter and chocolate flavor, these soft oatmeal cookies have crushed up peanut butter cups, butterfinger eggs, and the rest of that bag of peanut m&ms in them. When I first mixed it all together, I thought I might have too much "stuff" and not enough "dough." But after I baked the first batch, I knew there was no mistake.

These are the best cookie ever. Perfect for any and all peanut butter and chocolate lovers.

peanut butter cookies with pink m&ms

I had bought these pink m&ms because I thought they were pretty (and to support breast cancer, of course). so I made these peanut butter m&m cookies! They were great!!! Great soft peanut butter, and I love the chocolaty crunch of the m&ms!

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups!

Once you have these, you'll never buy Reese's again!!

I first made these for my brother's 16th birthday! Since I was in DC, and he was in MA, I knew I had to make something that could be shipped. Made these, sent him half, and kept half for me and my old roommate (and best friend in the whole world <3 you). A few special other people got to try them too :) Will definitely make again!!

hint: there is not only peanut butter in the center, but also peanut butter mixed in with the chocolate!!

Rice Krispie Treats!

So basic, so simple, yet so tasty!

I made this particular batch for my dear friend on her birthday!

I've also made them as a peanut butter version! Unfortunately I didn't take pics, but I definitely will the next time I make them!

Apple Pie!

Alright, I am definitely going out of order in my posts here, but I couldn't leave this out!
This is the apple pie I made for Thanksgiving this year at my family's Thanksgiving dinner. It has no filler (like tapioca or anything like that), which makes for a fresh, appley pie in a flaky homemade crust.

Make it every Fall, at least for Thanksgiving! I can made it anytime though!

I also made it this year for the RHA "Thanksgiving Dinner Meeting!" :)

Oatmeal Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies

A wonderful combination of flavors! I made these during finals week this year! (along with a few other things, including the muffins that I posted earlier!)

They are soft and have a very nice, tasty flavor. Not overly coconutty, not too oatmeally, really just a nice blend of flavors

muffins with blueberries!

I made these a few days after I made the apple ones! The apple muffins were so popular and I wanted more of them just as much as the rest of my sorority sisters! So, I made them again, but this time I added blueberries!!

Blueberry Fat-Free, Whole Wheat and Bran Muffins:

Time for something healthy: fat-free whole wheat and bran muffins

So I bought a box of bran flakes once, because I thought "hey these are healthy, I'll eat them for breakfast." Well, there was always something else that I wanted for breakfast, so the bran flakes never got opened. So I was trying to think: what could I do with them? OF COURSE! baked with them! googled some recipes and found the one that makes these! SO amazing! Don't be turned off by their healthy-ness: they are absolutely delicious and you would have absolutely NO idea that they are good for you! very moist!

The perfect, quick, healthy grab-n-go breakfast!

I made these for the first time during finals week. I lived with a bunch of girls in my sorority. For the week of finals, I had a different baked goodie outside my room every day! I did cookies and sweets like that of course, but since it was finals, I wanted to have something healthy too! And it's so important to eat breakfast, especially before a big exam!! So, these were PERFECT!

The first time I made them as...

Apple Cinnamon Fat-Free, Whole Wheat and Bran Muffins:




I made them with blueberries a few days later! see the next post for those! :)

HOMEMADE BROWNIES

Chocolate Chuck, Fudgy, chocolaty, rich, scrumptious, brownies. My own recipe. the best!
I have pictures of regular-square brownies (on a platter with chocolate chip and red m&m cookies!), heart-shaped brownies, and mini round brownies!