Recipes and Such

Flourless Chocolate Cake

I make this for literally every family gathering and for about 3 birthdays per year. Goes great with raspberry sauce (raspberries, equal amount of white sugar, a little lemon juice, heated and mushed until it looks like sauce) and whipped cream!

1 cup chocolate chips

8 tablespoons butter

3/4 cup white sugar

3 large eggs

1/2 cup dutch cocoa

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 375F, grease 8 inch round cake pan and line with parchment. Melt chocolate and butter together. Mix chocolate-butter with sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, beat until smooth. Add cocoa, combine. Pour into pan, bake for around 25 minutes. Let cool in pan and invert onto a plate, then flip again, right-side-up. For style points, dust with powdered sugar.

Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies

My sister's favorite. You can use a whole egg and double the rest of the ingredients and it works fine! My dad likes a version with 1/3 cup of additional sugar and regular cocoa instead of dutch.

4 tablespoons butter

1/2 cup white sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1 egg white

1/4 cup dutch cocoa

1/2 cup ap flour

chocolate chips and mini marshmallows

Cream together butter, sugar, and vanilla. Add egg and beat for around 1 minute. Add baking soda, flour, and cocoa and combine. Mix in chips and marshmallows. Ideally, rest dough in fridge overnight. Preheat oven to 350F, place cookies on parchment-lined sheet, add extra marshmallows on top. Bake 15 minutes. I like them cooled completely so they're chewier, but follow your heart.

Lemon Loaf

My dad keeps buying lemons and giving me sad eyes until I make this for him. Save me from this hell of my own making. Optional icing: mix lemon juice, powdered sugar, and butter (i start with around a tablespoon) until it feels right, then add to the cooled loaf!

1 1/2 cups ap flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 cup melted butter, room temperature

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1 cup white sugar

3 large eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon lemon extract

1 lemon, zest and juice

1/2 cup sour cream or buttermilk

Preheat oven to 350F, grease loaf pan and line with parchment. Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and set aside. Mix granulated sugar and eggs at medium-high speed until combined. Still mixing, pour in melted butter and oil. Add vanilla, lemon extract, zest, and juice. Mix until combined. Add sour cream/buttermilk and mix again. Add dry ingredients to wet in thirds. Pour into loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean (start checking at 50 minutes). Cool in loaf pan until it's safe to touch, then cool completely on a rack.

Banana Muffins

A recent addition to my repetoire! I like to save them in a tupperware and toast them for a breakfast snack. I also make them in a tin that was meant for 'all-edge brownies' (so the cups are square) but a regular muffin/cupcake tin should work fine!

1 large banana (very brown)

1/4 cup white sugar

2 tablespoons oil (i use canola)

1 large egg

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

3/4 cup ap flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350F and butter muffin tin. Absolutely obliterate the banana. Mix in sugar, oil, egg, and vanilla until combined. Add flour and baking soda, and mix until combined. Stir in a couple strong handfuls of chocolate chips. Spoon the batter into your muffin tin. If you don't think you used enough chips, just put more on top. Bake for around 15 minutes, but it may take longer if your muffin tin is deeper than mine. Check for batter with a toothpick to make sure. Cool in the tin for a few minutes, then pop out onto a cooling rack.