This week calls for ice cream, like epic ice cream. It is acceptable to eat ice cream for dinner, right? Good, because that may have happened - I'm blaming it on the heat wave. Plus, this ice cream is kind of impossible to put down, so once it's in your freezer, you might be eating it for dinner too! I mean cookies and cream ice cream is good to begin with, but then make it coffee flavored and add Kahlua - I'm sold! So this ice cream is super simple to make and gets an insane amount of flavor from steeping dark roasted coffee beans in the ...
Black and White Peppermint Mocha Cupcakes
I don't know about you, but I love a good peppermint mocha. A piping hot peppermint mocha on a cold morning always does the trick, and the slight burst of peppermint instantly makes it feel like the holidays. What I love even more than peppermint mochas are cupcakes, so it only made sense to combine the two. A light chocolate cake filled with coffee and peppermint sounded like the perfect holiday treat! I let the idea dance around in my head for a few days when I just happened to stumble upon peppermint mocha Kahlua. I was immediately ...
Espresso Swiss Rolls
Chatting with a musician after a concert a few months ago somehow led to him asking if I could makeover swiss rolls. Random, I know, but that's how this makeover came about. Anyway, I thought it would be a fun project, but for some reason it went to the back of my head with about a million other ideas. Fast forward to a few weeks ago when my mom randomly told me it would be lovely if I made a nice swiss roll. At this point I figured somebody must be trying to tell me something so I finally decided to take a hint & get this ...