We wanted to do cream puffs, and I kept finding recipes that said to fill them with vanilla pudding from a box. Yeah, I'd rather just buy them ready-made if I can't do any better than that. So I went looking for a scratch recipe. Not only did it come out as a great filling, it's the best vanilla pudding I've ever had. I'll be making this again soon, minus the cream puffs. … [Read more...]

Cream puffs. Chocolate éclairs. Pâte à choux ... well, not quite. This is a quick little puff pastry recipe that you can throw together quicker than you can defrost the frozen ones from Costco. It's less sweet than the version at Jenni's link, so (in my opinion) it's more of a blank slate for what you want to fill them or top them with. Her recipe is the more traditional one. … [Read more...]

Sugar cookies are one of those basic recipes that you can change up a ton of ways: chocolate chip, frosted, shapes, sprinkles. All from one super-simple recipe. … [Read more...]