Sweets

Everything sweet: cakes, cookies, pies, and more!

Strawberry Tres Leches
Cake

Strawberry Tres Leches Cake with Whipped Cream

What do you get when you combine three types of milk, a carton of fresh strawberries, and a more than generous amount of sugar? This Strawberry Tres Leches Cake! I’ve been mulling over the idea for strawberry flavored tres leches cake for a few months now. I made a regular tres leches cake once last […]

hazelnut praline cookies
Cookies

Hazelnut Praline Cookies

These Hazelnut Praline Cookies are filled with delicious, homemade candied hazelnuts and baked to crunchy perfection! It’s hard to chose a favorite cookie. Almost impossible really! But if I had to pick a favorite, I would probably choose these cookies. They’re a beautiful balance of buttery cookie with caramel-y hazelnuts. Plus, the texture is amazing. […]

gingerbread cake
Cake

Gingerbread Coffee Cake

Merry very nearly Christmas! It’s hard to believe how quickly December has flown by! Between prepping to travel to Tennessee for Christmas, wrapping up my tasks at work before going out of town, and mentally preparing for the separation anxiety of travelling away from my cat for the first time (he’ll have good babysitters of […]