Tag: Baking

Food, Recipes

Everything Cookies Recipe

Two images of a white woman standing in front of an oven holding a tray of cookies

If you scroll back through the Recipes section of this website, you’ll mostly find dishes inspired by my travels. Bagels from New York, chocolate cake from Sweden, pancakes from Denmark, waffles from Belgium, pistachio ice cream from Italy… Are you sensing a theme here? I love bread and I have a major sweet tooth. But …

Denmark, Food, Recipes

International Holiday Recipe: Æbleskiver

A plate of aebleskiver with powdered sugar on top

What on earth is an æbleskiver? I’m so glad you asked! These poppable, spherical, portable little pancakes are dangerous – both in the “you’re definitely going to eat too many” way and also the “you’re probably going to burn yourself at some point during the making process” way. But they are worth it. A quick …

Belgium, Food, Recipes

Recipe: Sugar-Studded Liege Waffles

A tray of liege waffles

While in Belgium recently, I can’t even begin to tell you how much time Michael and I spent hunched over our phones, searching for “Best Liege waffles in *current Belgian city,*” which is probably good because it would really be an embarrassing number calculated in hours, not minutes. All in search of an ultimately elusive …

Food, Recipes, Sweden

Recipe: Swedish Sticky Chocolate Cake (Kladdkaka)

A sticky chocolate cake with whipped cream

*Infomercial voice* Do you like brownies? Do you like making brownies? Do you like making brownies because you get to lick the spoon, and sometimes you “accidentally” are bad at scraping the contents of your mixing bowl into the pan so you can eat more batter out of the bowl?* Because if you’re the kind …