Chocolate Toffee Cracker Bars
If you need a quick dessert, this is the way to go! These bars don’t have very many ingredients and they taste delicious. Even someone who doesn’t have a lot of baking experience could make these....
View ArticleLazy Daisy Cake
I first had this cake when we stayed at my Bestemor’s* house last year, and I thought it was delicious. So did Joshua and Sonia and Zoe! Since then, my Bestemor has made this cake almost every time...
View ArticleLemon Bars, take one
My mom has made lemon bars before, and I remembered liking them. So, I asked if we could make a pan of them. We decided to try the recipe in my mom’s Baking Illustrated cookbook because we wanted to...
View ArticleLemon Bars, take two
The last lemon bar recipe that we tried was a bit too lemony for my taste. So, this time we picked a lemon bar recipe that was a little bit less lemony, and I liked it better. It’s also a bit easier...
View ArticlePumpkin (Chocolate Chip) Pancakes
When I heard that there was such a thing as pumpkin pancakes, I decided I really wanted to make them because they sounded really good! I like all kinds of different pumpkin spice things, so I was...
View ArticleCinnamon Sugar Heart Coffeecake
Valentine’s Day is coming up, so we wanted to make something heart-shaped to share with you. We thought about making this one, but we had no maraschino cherries. Boo. So, we decided to make a cinnamon...
View ArticleChocolate Chip Cookie Pie
Yesterday, my mom told me that Pi Day (3.14) was coming up, and she thought we should make a pie (pi?) for my blog. We decided to make something nice and easy, because it was last minute. Pie crust...
View ArticleDutch Baby
My mom picked this recipe because she saw it on the Cook’s Country website, which is affiliated with Cook’s Illustrated (I just call it all Christopher Kimball’s stuff!) A Dutch Baby is kind of like...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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