Cinnamon Sugar Muffins
One day, we didn’t have any bread for lunch, so I looked for a muffin recipe to make. I was in the mood for cinnamon streusel and I found this recipe while googling. A lovely thing about these muffins...
View ArticleChocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons
A while back my mom and I were discussing what gluten-free treats could be brought to a gathering and my mom remembered that macaroons are naturally gluten-free. So, we tried a Baking Illustrated...
View ArticleHow to Make Chocolate Whoopie Pies
A long time ago (like when Zoe was a baby), my mom made whoopie pies. I don’t really remember how I felt about them back then (I probably liked them!), but the memory of the whoopie pies made me want...
View ArticleSkillet Apple Crisp
Hello, readers! We’re here with a very fall-ish recipe for you. We visited a local farm not so long ago and picked a lot of apples. My mom made applesauce with most of the apples, but she left some...
View ArticleHomemade Graham Crackers, Part II
Hi! We haven’t actually fallen off the face of the earth. We just kind of didn’t blog for a while. I have been baking a lot on my own, but just not new recipes. I’ve made lots of shortbread for tea...
View ArticleHomemade Graham Crackers, Part 1!
After we made wheat thins, we decided we’d like to try some other crackers. We found this recipe on the internet (at Kitchen Simplicity), and we’re also planning to try one from America’s Test...
View ArticleFixing the email feed!
Hey, readers! It’s Kristen here. Something went wrong with Lisey’s Feedburner feed (which is the only blog feed I hadn’t migrated over to MadMimi. Silly me.) I’ve now moved it on over, so hopefully...
View ArticleHomemade Wheat Thins
For something different, my mom suggested we make crackers. I’ve never made crackers before! Making cracker dough isn’t complicated or time-consuming, but it does take a while to roll and cut the...
View ArticleAlmost Flourless Chocolate Cake
We saw this recipe on Modern Mrs. Darcy, and it looked so easy, we decided to give it a try! It makes a very, very dark and dense chocolate cake, so if you prefer milk chocolate, you probably won’t...
View ArticleThe Best Lemon Blueberry Bread
I’ve made several versions of blueberry bread, but I’ve found that this one is the most delicious. It has a lovely lemon flavor and a moist, cake-like texture. See how delicious the inside looks? You...
View ArticleChocolate Covered Crispy Monsters
My mom and I saw these cute guys on the front of an All You magazine, and you know we love to make cute stuff. This was from a Halloween issue, and we did make them this past fall, but somehow we...
View ArticleSanta Cupcakes
(Email subscribers, apologies if you get this a second time. If you do, it’s just a migration glitch, and I promise you won’t keep getting Baking With Lisey posts twice!) Around Thanksgiving, I wanted...
View ArticleCinnamon Sugar Croutons
If you got here from my mom’s blog, you already know that I made these to go with some butternut squash soup that she was making. I’ve never made croutons before, and I thought it was pretty easy. The...
View ArticleLisey in a Foodie Crush issue
Hey there! Kristen here, because as I was going through my email this morning, I realized Lisey and I never told you that she was interviewed this summer for a Foodie Crush article about young food...
View ArticleApple Pfannekuchen
My mom makes this recipe every now and then, and I wanted to know how to make it too, because then I can make it even if my mom doesn’t have time. (And I also thought it seemed like a fun recipe to...
View ArticleSuper Easy Shortbread
One day, I wanted to have a tea party with Sonia and Zoe and our friend, but we didn’t have any tea cookies. So, my mom suggested that we make shortbread. I had never had shortbread before, so I was...
View ArticleChocolate Covered Banana Bites
On a hot day this summer, my mom suggested that we try making some chocolate covered frozen bananas. I was a little unsure about the idea at first, but after we made them, I decided they were good....
View ArticleSome Not-Edible Goodies
So, lately I’ve been making some delicious-looking things that you can’t eat. And they’re all really small. These ice cream sundaes are made in communion cups, with white glue, polymer clay fruit,...
View ArticleChocolate Chip Coffee Muffins
One day, Joshua and I were looking for something easy to bake, so we searched the internet for “best quick breads” and came across this recipe. We both really like coffee, so this sounded perfect. We...
View ArticleBetter-Than-Mounds Bars (or Different-Than-Mounds-bars!)
We first made these bars several weeks ago, using a 9×13 pan (which the recipe called for). But the bars were too thin, and since the layers were so thin, it was hard to spread them. We double...
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