Chocolate Sausage (or Cookie Fudge)

My Mother-In-Law continues to surprise me with fantastic dessert recipes that taste like nothing I've ever had in the US. Why is it called chocolate sausage? You'll have to read the recipe to find out.

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.

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!

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.

Chunky Cinnamon Applesauce

I got tired of going to the store and finding chunky applesauce, or cinnamon applesauce, but never chunky cinnamon. So I found a good chunky applesauce and added in the spices.

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!