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Archive of posts filed under the baking category.

Homemade Snack Bars and No-Sugar June

Hi! I had my bachelorette party and lived to tell the tale! It was a lot of fun, my friends are just so amazing. I don’t have pictures because in classic Hallie form, I took 5 pictures at the start of the day and then totally forgot about my camera. My friends were amazing photographers [...]

Chip Taste-Testing and a Raisin Recipe

“You get some weird things in the mail.” This is what my darling fiancé said when I came home to this: I don’t remember exactly, but I think it was on Jenna’s blog that I found a link where I could request a sample of red lentils. And, since I’m planning on milking the “I’m [...]

Bribing with Baked Goods

Oh man…I am so glad today is (just about) over! It was my “12-hour work day” with early morning media for our new exhibit, so I’m glad it’s done and we got some good coverage. In order to bribe thank the people in other departments for helping out with the press, I decided to do [...]

Windfall

My mom called me awhile ago and told me she has some random food items that she thought I might like (her fiancé ordered a bunch of food online and I guess this came with it). Not going to lie, when she said “organic raw pecan butter” I got really excited, because hello, that stuff [...]

Pumpkin Chocolate-Chip Blondies with Side Notes

Hellooo! How is everyone’s week going so far? Mine’s going…ok, I guess. Work is busy which is always nice, and I worked on a freelance project last night that was looming over my head so it was nice to get things done. Side note 1: check out my new blog header! I’ll link to the [...]

Not the New Rules of Blondie Baking

As I mentioned, I made blondies for the terribly sad and depressing and I don’t want to talk about it football game on Sunday. And as anything with a stick of butter and a cup of brown sugar would be, they were really, really good.  They have the texture of a brownie with the taste [...]

The Shortcut That Wasn’t

I needed some cookies yesterday. I mean, I sort of need cookies all the time, but this time I was baking them for a bake sale at work. Since these would be revenue-generating cookies, I knew they had to be good, so I picked a recipe that was supposedly pretty foolproof. Read on, my friends. So [...]

Na-MOO-Ste Contest Entry: Spicy Cornbread

Did everyone have a nice Thanksgiving? Mine was just lovely. I didn’t take any photos because well, I was teased enough for making a pie that had tofu in it (or rather, that I was trying to keep it a secret. Grrr!). But suffice it to say the evening was a success, and we only [...]

My Own Turkey Trot

Happy Thanksgiving! I’m waiting for my dad to pick me up so I thought I’d pop in here to wish you all a happy holiday…or a happy Thursday, as the case may be. My dad and I are going over to Mitch’s dad’s house for the big day, which will be fun because it’ll be [...]

Secret-Ingredient Recipe Testing

Hello friends! First off I feel the need to apologize for not being as “on it” with commenting on your blogs as I usually am. I’m still reading (believe me!) but I’ve been super busy this past week with my freelance side job, and I’m trying to be responsible (since, you know, I get paid [...]