Most of the cookies I’ve been making this holiday season have been either family favorites that date back to at least when I was a kid or they were requested by people dear to me. These ones, though, are a different kind of nostalgia hit for me. My dad loves spumoni, which is a style
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Continuing on the trend of pumpkin treats, here are some super easy pumpkin cupcakes that are the perfect snack or on the go breakfast. Ingredients3/4 cup Flour3/4 cup Pumpkin puree (NOT pie filling)1/3 cup Brown sugar1/4 cup Heavy cream (or almond milk)1 Egg1/2 tsp Vanilla1 tsp Pumpkin pie spice1/4 tsp Baking powder1/4 tsp Baking sodaPinch
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As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have a lot of currants. Possibly too many. I’ve been at a loss for what to do with them, but I decided to get adventurous and figure out how to best bake them while fresh (I’ve got recipes for dried ones, like my Rosewater Currant Cakes but
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If you’re a fan of toast or PB&J sandwiches and you’ve never had apple butter before, you’re missing out! It’s like super-concentrated, creamy applesauce. It’s sweet, full of spices, and perfect on toast, rolls, or vanilla ice cream. It’s been a favorite spread of mine since I was a kid, and the best way to
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It’s summertime again, and that means my friend’s mom has currant bushes that are overflowing with fruit. This year, she taught me how to juice them using a pressure cooker, but then I was stuck with far more currant juice than I knew what to do with. I still had jelly from last year, as
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This is one of the more complicated recipes I’ve ventured to do. Anyone who’s been following Apartment Eats for a while knows I’m generally a cupcake person. I’ve tried making pies before with varied success, and I’ve never, ever made a full cake. Hubby actually gave me a straight answer for once when I asked
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Sounds weird, right? That was what I thought when my friend first mentioned it the other day. Blueberry soup is apparently quite common in Sweden, where my friend is from, and she said that it’s often used as a cold remedy, much like how we use chicken soup as a “cure-all” here in America for
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Initially, this recipe started out as a rogue idea for something to take the place of my peppermint bark at our concert refreshment table this spring. It’s an old recipe on this blog, but it never fails to please the crowds. Originally, I’d planned to do a kind of Snickers bark with chocolate and caramel
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I snagged the base for this recipe from Hebbar’s Kitchen, another recipe blog that has some amazing Indian food. I saw his recipe for this marble cake come up on my feed one day, and I thought I’d give it a try. It looked so pretty and so simple, I figured it was worth a
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Snickerdoodles are one of hubby’s favorite cookies. I’ve made him a snickerdoodle mug cake and a few trial batches of cookies, but nothing has ever really wowed him before. This time, I tried a few different things. First off, bigger cookies will come out softer, smaller ones will come out crunchier. Second, longer bake times
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