I want to tell you about the camping trip where I almost set a picnic table on fire, ruined a bag of marshmallows, and somehow — accidentally, chaotically, against all odds — invented what has become the most requested recipe on this entire blog. Yes, we’re talking about my smores cookie bars recipe, and yes, … Read more
I pulled my blondies out of the oven, did a little victory shimmy across my kitchen floor, and then promptly dropped the entire pan face-down on my dog’s head. That is a true story. That is also somehow not the worst part of that particular baking afternoon — but we’ll get there. What matters is … Read more
I want to tell you about the day I accidentally made the best batch of oat flour chocolate cookies gluten free bakers in my family have ever tasted — and it started with me completely ruining everything. Like, spectacularly, dramatically, “why am I even allowed in a kitchen” ruining everything. It was a Sunday afternoon, … Read more
I want to tell you about the afternoon I accidentally became a baking genius. It was a Tuesday — the kind of Tuesday where the fridge is mostly empty, a friend is showing up in twenty minutes, and past-me had apparently decided that buying flour was optional. I panicked, opened every cabinet, and landed on … Read more
I almost cried in my kitchen the December my mom was diagnosed with celiac disease — three days before our annual cookie exchange. I had been making the same buttery Scottish shortbread recipe for fifteen years, and suddenly, that tin of golden squares felt completely off the table. I didn’t want her to sit there … Read more
The first time I tried to make almond flour snickerdoodle cookies for my daughter Lily’s ninth birthday, I nearly cried into a mixing bowl full of flat, greasy, cinnamon-scented disaster. She had been diagnosed with celiac disease just six months earlier, and all she wanted — her one birthday wish — was a snickerdoodle cookie … Read more
I still remember standing in my kitchen at 11 o’clock on a Tuesday night, scraping my ninth batch of crumbly, flat, sad little discs into the trash can while my daughter stood in the doorway in her pajamas, watching me with those big hopeful eyes. She had just been diagnosed with celiac disease three months … Read more
I pulled open the oven door, absolutely convinced I was about to present my family with the most sophisticated cookies they had ever seen — and instead, I watched twelve perfectly round discs of what I had confidently called “the next big thing” slide off the baking sheet in a unified act of rebellion and … Read more
I almost threw an entire batch of matcha sandwich cookies cream filling and all straight into the trash — and I’m so glad I didn’t. It started on a Tuesday afternoon when I decided, with absolutely zero planning, that I was going to make elegant, bakery-style matcha sandwich cookies with cream filling for my book … Read more
I almost cried in my kitchen on a Tuesday afternoon. Not from onions — from a crumbled, greasy, oddly gray pile of what was supposed to be my daughter’s birthday cookies. She had just been diagnosed with celiac disease three months prior, and I had promised her matcha almond flour cookies gluten free of any … Read more
