It was a sad ending to the weekend and the Super Bowl with a Panthers loss. Fortunately, we have Mardi Gras and these individual king cake cinnamon buns to look forward to on Tuesday! I have never been to New Orleans, but it is on my list of places to visit, and hopefully sometime soon….
link love
It’s Friday, which means some link love is in order. via Have you seen the rainbow bagel? It looks like it belongs in a world where only Lisa Frank and unicorns exist. The dough basically looks like playdough, but the whole process looks pretty amazing. For a post-grad who will likely be moving to a place…
valentine’s day gift guide for a sweetheart party
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 I have always and will always associate Valentine’s day with royal icing topped sugar cookies, little heart shaped boxes of filled chocolates, cute rectangular folded valentine’s cards, and tea parties. The chocolate boxes and cards make sense to most people, but the sugar…
bakery tour: raleigh edition
Our sweets post takes a different form this week. A few weeks ago I met my family in Raleigh for the afternoon and evening. During my childhood in the Triangle, downtown Raleigh had some restaurants, but not too many that were really wonderful. In the past few years though, the local restaurant, bakery and coffee…
link love
Can you believe January is already almost over? Eeek, where did the weeks go?!? I feel like I say this at the end of every month. January always starts out slow, peaceful and filled with purpose after the holidays, then picks up and life starts to get busy again towards the end. That’s where we…
life lately
It is meltingggggg. Winter Storm Jonas paid us a visit this weekend and left behind some snow and ice. After four days of sticking around, it finally started to really melt today. Don’t get me wrong, there are still some very precarious patches of ice and snow is still piled along the side of the…
chocolate chip cookie bars
Sometimes you just need a little comfort food. Chocolate chip cookie bars seem like the perfect comforting food for all of this snow and cold weather. And when you run out of groceries and don’t want to leave the house in the snow, you do what you can with what you have ;) These chocolate…
link love
Happy snowmageddon to my East Coast friends! It is more like an icemageddon here. I hope you are all staying warm, wherever you are. via Pinterest I just love the internet. It is usually such a wonderful place to be, full of ideas and inspiration. I know it isn’t like that everywhere, but that is…
Valentine’s Day Gift Guide for Care Packages
Can you believe Valentine’s day is less than one month away?! I have been so engulfed in the start of the new year starting that Valentine’s day seems to be sneaking up on us. Luckily, we still have plenty of time to prep without stress. Growing up, my brother, sister and I would come downstairs…
champagne cake with rose buttercream
It’s celebration time! I mentioned earlier this year that Pass the Cookies has been up and running for one year now, and what a better way to celebrate than with a naked champagne cake with rose buttercream and some beautiful flowers? If dreams were photos, these would be them. Sometimes I look back and realize how…