• Motocakes (chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting)

    If you read my post about the parties last week at our house, I’m sure you were wondering what I made for dessert. Because there is ALWAYS dessert. Well, I made these: And yes, those are EGAs on top. That is Eagle, Globe and Anchor. As in, the emblem of the Marine Corps. I called […]

  • Chocolate-peanut butter cake

    Imagine moist, chocolatey cake, enveloped in fluffy peanut butter-cream cheese frosting and topped with a layer of peanutty chocolate ganache. It’s like what would happen if a peanut butter cup accidentally wandered through some radioactive ooze. It’s a teenage mutant ninja peanut butter cup cake. You can use any kind of cocoa powder. I had […]

  • Peanut butter and jelly bars

    Yesterday was the Navy-Georgia Southern game, and I wanted to make something to bring for tailgating. So, get excited. It’s peanut butter jelly time. People LOVE these things. One adorable midshipman who ate one yesterday looked like he had died and gone to heaven. He also made a comment that is probably not appropriate for […]

  • Monster cookies

    These are my little brother’s favorite cookies. They also work really well for sending in the mail — they are sturdy enough that they don’t get broken in transit, and apparently they keep for a while. When I sent some to Bangladesh (a long time ago), they got stuck in customs for two weeks but […]