This entire fall seems to be about pumpkins. Today, specifically, about pumpkin muffins with chocolate chips. The fall season is almost over but since the Thanksgiving is still ahead of us, here's a recipe for these delicious beauties. I'm sure your Thanksgiving dinner guests would love these! Plus - one more thing done from my bucket list (if it counts that I replaced pumpkin bread with pumpkin muffins) :) Ingredients: 1 cup of brown sugar 1 and 2/3 cups of all-purpose flou

It all started with pumpkin spice latte. It was barely the beginning of September this year, the weather was still nice and warm, but for some reason the fall spirit came around and I couldn't wait for the fall to begin. I started googling pumpkin farms around us, I found a place where we'd go apple picking, I made a fall bucket list... and somewhere between these fall prep activities I started craving for pumpkin spice latte. Which is funny, because when in Boston, I was onl

Ever since the beginning of September, even though the weather was still nice and summery (if that's a word), I started looking forward to fall. Fall used to be a beautiful season around Boston! Unfortunately, around here we get way too many rainy days for my taste. I'm really gonna miss the beautiful Boston weather! Since I knew the rainy days are coming, I decided to make the season better by incorporating few of my favorite fall activities into our everyday schedules. Wel

Holiday season is almost here and I'm sure you'll need some cake recipes for your parties, right? I don't usually bake any fancy cakes with fillings and frosting and all those accessories that make it look amazing. This time though I decided to try some higher level baking. Last weekend I tried this cheesecake and even though it was my first cheesecake ever, it came out perfect! Ever since summer ended I realized how our diet changed. From fruits, vegetables, and light summer

I've been making homemade turnovers for some time now, usually simple triangle shapes, but I wanted to make something special for Valentine's Day this year and made them in the shape of heart. However the problem of this shape are leftovers. So I took the small leftover piece of puff pastry dough, put a little filling inside and closed it on the top. I didn't expect much but it turned out perfect. That was the time when I realised the possibilities of puff pastry. Why should

I'm not a big fan of donuts or muffins but when it comes to turnovers I love them. Especially apple turnovers, I just don't get why there's always so much sugar on them and they are so sweet. So I knew I would try to bake them myself once I saw a simple recipe on my friend's Facebook last month. Since then I've already baked them at least 5 times and it's one of the most easiest and wonderful recipes. Ingredients: 1 puff pastry 1 egg flour filling (I love using my homemade ca

Growing up in the same town with both grandma's was a great opportunity for me to experience the best of homemade cooking and baking. However I was a picky eater and the one of not too many ways how to make me eat something while staying over at my grandparents' houses was to give me something sweet. I liked candies of all kinds but you would agree with me that candy is not the best nutrition for a kid. So what else and sweet could my grandmas get into my belly? Cakes. And pi

Every time when I start thinking of making some simple yet fancy dessert marble cake comes to my mind immediately. In my home country this is the cake all moms and grandmothers know how to make. Every woman after 20 should know how to make it. The preparation is not very challenging and most of the final effect depends on the bundt pan that you are using. I ended up using this one almost all the time because then the cake looks really stunning! Ingredients: 5 eggs, 250 g/9 oz