• Dark Chocolate Cherry Scones
    Breakfast,  Chocolate and Candy

    Dark Chocolate Cherry Scones

    Valentine’s Day is upon us. That means it’s time for allll the chocolate…even for breakfast. Yep, a holiday like this one calls for a decadent, chocolatey start to the day. (I mean, let’s be real, I’ll take an excuse to eat chocolate for breakfast any day, but this holiday is just begging us to indulge.) These Dark Chocolate Cherry Scones are the perfect thing to serve your loved one (or yourself) for a Valentine’s Day breakfast in bed! How to make flaky AF scones Every scone, chocolate or not, should be flaky and tender. And the way you get that flakiness is the same way you get it in pie…

  • Sunken Plum Snack Cake - large
    Cakes and Cupcakes

    Sunken Plum Snack Cake

    Friends, it’s officially stone fruit season. Bring on all the peaches, nectarines, apricots, cherries, and — for our purposes today — plums! I love baking with stone fruits. They lend themselves so well to pies, cakes, bars, and jam (which isn’t really baking I guess, but baking-adjacent). Stone fruits have a decent amount of firmness to them, but when you bake them, they sort of melt and go all soft and jammy. Yum. Before I baked with plums for the first time (years ago now…in a pie, I believe), I had enjoyed snacking on them but never thought of putting them into baked treats. But once I tasted them baked…