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Chocolate Crepe Cake Minis + a Megabite Birthday

My blog’s four! If it was a degree, it’d be a bachelor’s! If it was a relationship, it’d be a serious one! In these four years, I’ve baked my feelings, made you brunch, drank beer with crepes, put beer in waffles, poured it over ice cream. I’ve tried to make pie without making pie. (Twice.) I’ve been super happy and super sad. I’ve met some great ladies and fellas! I just love this community. Ya’ll…

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Lemon Chess Pie

I’m going to be honest. I picked out this pie, but my mom made it while I perused our music options. I did zest a few lemons and totally complimented her on her crust skills. I also made the whipped cream, but my mixer did most of the work. We both ate this pie like total champs. My mom said she was going to make this pie when she got home from her visit. She…

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Birthday Crepe Cake

I’ve daydreamed about ruffly crepe cakes for years! So, I figured it was time to finally do it! I was lucky enough to have my parents in town, so my mom and I stood around the kitchen flipping crepes for awhile before dinner. I showed her how I swirl the batter, she showed me how dance around with a spatula. My birthday morning was a brunch party! My parents, brother, and I enjoyed skrovaires (Romanian…

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Strawberry Champagne Waffles

Let’s restart. Let’s toast to the new year now! I’m not going to lie. I keep thinking that I can’t wait for this year to end. Too many crazy things have happened that I no longer want to share a year with. But my friend mentioned that maybe I should start my new year now, ya’ know? Toast now! Instead of wishing the year away, take a fresh start immediately. So let’s put champagne in our…

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Workin’ It: Eton Mess with Berries and Cherries (Michigan Fruit Part 4)

Whipped cream and fruit, you guys. Summer basics. They’re packed into jars, and are occasionally patriotic. Consider these the american flag denim shorts of your summer dreams. Pretend you dream about shorts like that. OH! I made a total of 4 recipes for this feature. Click here, here, and here for the first three posts. And meringues too! For the crunch-factor! Based on the meringues sweetness, I’m going to tell you right now to go light…

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Belgian Beer Waffles

There are some things in life you just HAVE to do. If you find a dress at Anthropologie worth loving, and it’s on sale for $30 plus it fits you perfectly, you have to buy it. If you’re feeling down in the dumps, and you’re wearing sunglasses instead of make-up then you should get pizza and breadsticks for lunch. You should eat it with your BFF who won’t judge your lack of mascara. If your…

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Lemon Poppy Seed Shortcakes

I made a cake for Easter. I made a cake and I messed it up. I put room temperature butter in at the beginning instead of melted butter at the end. The batter looked like cookie dough and baked up all flat-like. I mean, it wasn’t gross, but it was ugly. There was even a point where I was standing there looking blankly out the window holding half of one of the flat layers in…

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Workin’ It: Cake + Blinis + Mousse

Sometimes I skip lunch and eat cake and blinis. Sometimes I put fresh figs in the middle of a bundt cake. Sometimes I load up my car with dishes and food and hang out with my homegirl Cybelle. Sometimes I get my food styling on freelance-style. I made this stuff awhile back for Michigan Blue Magazine. They wanted warm wintery chocolatey things and appetizer things. So I made a chocolate gingerbread bundt cake! I sautéed…

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My Key Lime Birthday Pie {made by Jake}

Jake believes that if you burn yourself, while cooking, the meal is guaranteed to be good. He believes in wine, bacon, and rye bread. He also believes that nobody should be making their own birthday cake. So this year, when my birthday rolled around, I opted for pie. And Jake made it! And it turned out dreamier than I even imagined! It’s perfectly tart and so bright you’ve got to wear shades. So for your next…

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French Silk Pie {revisited}

I’ve eaten this pie my whole life. It’s my favorite. So I just needed to make it again to chase away the rainy blues in the mitten. I also used to order this when my family would go to Baker’s Square. Once, when they didn’t have it and I cried and they gave me free pie. (I was a kid! So what!) Basically, this is the go-to dessert for my whole family. My mom, sisters, and…

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