This recipe post is in collaboration with Old World Kitchen. Check out their beautiful gallery of handcrafted wooden products here! If you know anything about me, it's that I love (and I mean LOVE) the holiday season. Once Halloween is over I am full, 100% holly-jolly singing carols in my ugly christmas sweater. There is just something so fun and exciting about this time of year. Everything from Thanksgiving to New Year's, there is a sense of excitement and, dare I say, joy in the air. One of the many reasons I love this season is ALL the holiday baking! Give me a reason to bake cookies and I ..read more

This weekend has been a busy one so far. Yesterday, I spent the day shooting at Starved Rock Park with some friends for a client lifestyle photoshoot. Then I gallivanted off to Galena to meet up with the family for the holiday week. Now with just days until Christmas, I am so excited to be sharing not one, not two, not three, but FOUR holiday recipes to get you into the baking spirit! One of the recipes including these absolutely delicious Danish Cardamom Rolls with Hazelnut Frangipane! Perfect to feed a crowd this Christmas! A recent client of mine had requested a Kringle for their photoshoo ..read more

This is a sponsored post by Cakebread Cellars. One of my favorite parts about the holiday season is the gathering of friends and family. There is something so special to me about having the people you care about and love the most around your table. And a holiday table is incomplete without a bottle of wine, and Cakebread Cellars Chardonnay is definitely my go-to wine of choice. For me, the holidays are where generational recipes are passed down and where new ones can begin. For the last couple of years, I find myself making a cake for the Christmas season and this year is no exception. I made ..read more

This short film is inspired by a childhood love, my mother’s homemade chocolate chip cookies. Coming off the school bus, my brother and I would run inside the house and be greeted by the wafting scents of freshly baked cookies. With a cold glass of milk and plateful of cookies, we would devour them, their warm, sweet chocolatey tastes tickling our taste buds. Growing up my mother would always say “There are two things that can always mend a broken heart; love and chocolate”.Her recipe stuck with me throughout my adult life. In college after a rough day of classes or before final exams, I would ..read more

Say hello to summer with this recipe for Roasted Strawberry & Basil Limeade. All the ingredients come together in a pinch and are the perfect balance of fruity-sweet and sour lime. Cheers!Hello, friend.Soooo it’s been roughly five hundred years since I posted last (okay, maybe like 2 months but still). If you haven’t seen on my Instagram, I recently moved to Chicago! That’s right, I packed up my life and moved up here to the Windy City to take a Marketing Manager position. I am beginning to fall deeply in love with this crazy city. I had taken about two months off from blogging to find a p ..read more

This isn’t your grandma’s coffee cake. This blueberry crème fraiche coffee cake is rich, buttery and oh so sweet! The crème fraiche adds a richness and velvet-like texture to the cake while the blueberries add a subtle yet fresh sweetness. I used some coffee grounds my manager brought back from his trip to Colombia (seriously the best coffee I’ve ever had!). The grounds give a nice bit to balance out the sweetness of the cake. Perfect for serving at a party or on a Sunday afternoon with a cup of coffee!Hello, friend.It’s been a while since we last chatted. How have you been? I know it’s been a ..read more