I have a lot of ideas for my blog, most of which either a) I forget about or b) I don’t do anything about because I don’t have the time, motivation, or some combination of the two. Like that time I was going to start a spinoff tumblr where I featured photos of myself eating […]
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banana bread french toast
Whenever I bake a loaf of banana bread, I immediately binge on half the loaf and almost make myself sick. I push it away after feeling a little cracked out from all that sugar and promptly declare that I’m doing something healthy next, like going on a run or something. The half eaten banana bread […]
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the violet bakery’s sugar-crusted banana bread
Last September, when Erlend moved out to New York, I suddenly found myself inheriting his half of household chores. It was a lot to take on and the apartment quickly became littered with my clothes, blog props, and other random crap. No matter how much I cleaned or planned ahead, there was always more to […]
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hot buttered rum pound cake
We’re getting to that weird part of the year where there’s a limited number of fresh fruits and vegetables available. And you know what that means? It’s Butter Season. Okay, no, really, it’s a thing. This is the time of year when I tend to make desserts that are heavy on ingredients like cream, chocolate, […]
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polar opposite pound cakes (and a wolf countertop oven giveaway!)
All my life, I’ve always thought I was a person of medium luck. I can counter almost every extremely fortuitous moment I’ve ever had with a completely polar opposite moment, a Murphy’s Law type situation in which everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. Everything’s always an extreme that eventually gets balanced out in […]
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Matcha Marble Pound Cake with Blackberry Brown Sugar Compote
You guys! My kitchen is so close to the end. There are just a couple hardware pieces that need to be shipped, and a cabinet panel or two that needs to be screwed in and aligned. But I’m so close. SO CLOSE. Soon you guys will have all the before and after pictures I’ve been […]
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