Eats + Sweets

I’ve been reading 101 Cookbooks, one of my ultimate favorite food blogs, for a couple of years now. This upcoming weekend marks my big official holiday baking weekend and I’ll definitely be adding a few of Heidi’s recipes to my roster of sweets. Among those I’m most excited to try – her sparkling cranberries, Swedish rye cookies and ginger chip cookies. They all look heavenly!

{Photos from 101 Cookbooks.}

I’ve been meaning to write about these cookies for an incredibly long time and, seeing as though I just baked up a batch for my husband to take to school for a department meeting this week, it seems like a good time to share them with you. This is my go-to cookie recipe – it always gets rave reviews and they never disappoint. It’s a quick, simple recipe that results in a perfect cookie every time. I’ve tweaked and played …

As promised, I have baking on the brain again this week so I thought I’d interrupt your Monday afternoon with a little cookie break. Not only do these cookies look positively amazing, but we all know chocolate chip is an old favorite that never goes out of style. I just spied these perfect chocolate chip cookies over on Honey & Jam and had to share. Now, of course, everything the sweet Hannah bakes (and photographs) just looks too pretty for …

There are few things in life that make me quite as happy as delicious sweet treats. (Although admittedly, fine letterpress, dogs and a fresh pack of Pilot G2-05 pens rank right up there.) The only person I know who can rival my love for sweets is my husband who is addicted to cookies specifically. In fact, we even gave cute boxes of homemade cookies away as favors at our wedding this past July. Accordingly, the holidays become a great time …

I am going to come right out and admit to being positively obsessed with the s’mores craze currently sweeping the wedding world. Remember those adorable DIY s’mores favors from Twig & Thistle? Yup, I hands down loved those and I know you guys did, too. With that said, when I saw these really fun little DIY s’mores favors yesterday on Elizabeth Anne Designs, I knew I had to share them with you. Not only did the bride herself share the details …

As a general rule, I don’t tend to fall in love with anything that is too strictly tied to one theme, with the exception of kids parties and baby showers, where I think it’s really fun and perfectly appropriate. With that said, I wasn’t expecting to love this playful Thanksgiving-themed dessert buffet by Amy Atlas nearly as much as I do. From the sugared pears to the hot apple cider to the corn husk cookies, I think this is basically …

I mentioned in passing last week that it’s always my job to decide on the dessert menu and bake up a spread of deliciousness for Thanksgiving dinner at my mother’s house each year. With that in mind, I spent some time this weekend rounding up ideas of things I’d like to bake and clicking through the starred items saved in my Google Reader (an astonishing percentage of which are food-related posts) to narrow down my options. I thought I’d share …

If you’re like me and enjoy a wedding that comes with a considered attention to detail and a side of sass, you need to hightail it over to Lolliblog to check out this DIY wedding from Our Labor of Love. It features a pink wedding dress, a beautifully tattooed bride and a groom who baked the most amazing spread of sweets and treats you can imagine – including the wedding cake! The bride, Stephanie, shared a ton of amazing details …

In the event you aren’t yet familiar with inspired Brooklyn confectioner Whimsy & Spice, I thought I’d take a moment this Monday to perk you up with a bit of their sweet goodness. Whimsy & Spice is the work of husband and wife team Mark and Jenna. Mark is the baker and Jenna is the art director, photographer and author of their thoroughly insightful and touching blog, Sweet Fine Day. Together they’ve built a brand that to me is pure …

Speaking of great wedding favor ideas, I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw these adorable s’mores kits on Twig & Thistle today. (Kathleen found them at Packaging Specialties in Seattle.) How adorable would it be to have a little s’mores kit at each place setting at a wedding or event or even arranged on a side table for guests to enjoy either at the party or after? Call me crazy, but I’m already dreaming of holiday parties and …