Tea Cookies

Probably Sergey's favorite cookies, but only one person in our family knows how to make them perfectly. Recently I got down on my hands and knees and begged to be taught the sacred recipe. I was granted my boon...

Sweet Bread

Every now and then I get an overwhelming craving for bread. Nice, sweet, fluffy, devourable bread. This is the first recipe I came across, and it works well. Freezes nicely too, but always slice it up first!

Shortbread Cookies

Sergey loves crispy cookies. In search of ways to get homemade cookies like that, he found a cookie press that made tiny cookies with lots of ridges. Success! Tiny little crunches of joy.

Bread Knots

I was absolutely craving bread. But not fluffy bread, I wanted a nice dense bread to sink my teeth into. I stumbled across this recipe on Tumblr and it was perfect. And then I used this recipe to process election anxieties. I made well over a hundred in that time.

Nib Nommers and Cacao Craze Cookies

Snopes' disproved Neiman Marcus costs-a-fortune cookies offered a killer recipe, urban legend or no. It also churns out a metric crapton of cookies in one go, so it became my go-to recipe when I needed party cookies, or office cookies. Heavily modified over the years, of course...

Melon Bread

Sergey and I have visited Japan, and while there we discovered Melon Bread. It's fluffy as air inside and crispy on the outside. I can't make it as good, but I can make a good sweet bread along those lines with this.

Lembas Bread Cookies

My youngest sister and I played around with this recipe a bit. We found it online, but decided it was not sweet enough. Difficult to tweak without making it too dense, but it cane be done!

Honey Cakes and Cream

This is possibly the best tea-table type dessert I've ever had, and it came from my mother in law.

Cinnamon Swirl Apple Pie

Ever see one of those recipes float by on Facebook and go... "That one. I MUST make THAT one." Well... here it be. I did adjust a few steps to firm up the crust.

Carrot Cake

I just had a hankering for carrot cake one day, and then You Suck At Cooking came out with a recipe. I wanted to tweak a few things and I'm not sure I'm done tweaking, but the first try turned out pretty good!

Baklava Rolls (Dry)

My husband loves baklava, but he's not fond of the syrup that it comes with. I reworked an online recipe to accommodate a dry version, and it's quite good and crunchy!