- Thin Mints are the best selling Girl Scout cookies and it’s not hard to see why: the combination of bittersweet cocoa and fresh mint is a winner in any form. You can get another chocolate-mint fix with a batch of Thin Mints Pancakes from French Press. The pancakes are made with cocoa powder and have a Thin Mint-flavored coffee creamer mixed in to add both more chocolate and a nice mintiness. You could get a similar effect by adding chocolate extract and peppermint extract to regular milk. The pancakes are served with a decadent chocolate sauce.
- Lemon and blueberries are a great springtime combination, when blueberries first start to show up at markets. Thanks to a mild winter, I’ve been seeing them earlier than usual. Sasi’s Kitchen is featuring some Lemon and Blueberry Mini Loaves that are a good alternative to muffins for a springtime brunch. The little loaves are bursting with blueberries, which are suspended in a batter made with buttermilk and yogurt that has a moist and tender crumb. These don’t need any frosting, but a touch of sugar before baking gives them a nice texture on top!
- Design, Eat, Repeat‘s colorful Chocolate Chip M&M Easter Egg Cookies will get you into the mood to start your Easter baking. These egg-shaped chocolate chip cookies are studded with large, egg-shaped seasonal M&M candies to give them a bright, cheery look. As if that were’t enough, they are also packed with regular chocolate chips and more M&Ms, though the candies used inside the cookie dough are crushed, so the cookies have a confetti-like sprinkling of color. They’re sure to be a hit at any springtime event.
- St Patrick’s Day may be over, but Irish Coffee is delicious all year round. I like to enjoy my Irish Coffee Ice Cream in the summer, as well as in March! Another Irish-inspired recipe comes in the form of Irish Whoopie Pies from Baking the Goods. The whoopie pies are made with soft chocolate and coffee cookies, sandwiching an Irish whiskey-spiked buttercream frosting. There is just enough whiskey to infuse the cookies with flavor, but not so much that you’ll have to wait for happy hour to indulge.
Sasi
March 21, 2015Thank you for featuring my “Lemon and Blueberry Mini Loaves”. You don’t have any idea how much traffic your article brought my site. Thanks again!