This vanilla cloud cake has the texture of an angel food cake but with a rich vanilla flavor and is perfect for just about any occasion.
vanilla cloud cake

This is a vanilla cake for chocolate lovers.

The real deal, bonifide, you can just take those glimmers of skepticism I see in your eyes and put them back where the sun don’t shine cake.

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These Irish cream brownies from The Recipe Girl Cookbook are fudgy beyond belief with a major liqueur infusion – make sure not to eat them and drive!
irish cream brownies

It’s really hard to be health-minded with brownies on your windowsill.

I mean, brownies from a box, I could probably totally ignore. No second glances or love lost over those chemically altered substances.

But when aforementioned brownies are basically homemade bricks of liqueur-infused fudge heaven?!

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australia babies

1. The.Boy seems to think that if he keeps buying me adorable stuffed animals from Down Under (and Africa), it will get him off the “baby-making” hook. Little does he know, after the wedding. It. Is. ON.

2. But they really are cute, right? We call them: Mr. Koala, Bush Baby, Mrs. Kangaroo, and Joey. I marvel at our creativity constantly.

3. I will really be much more creative with our future babys’ names. Like, maybe too creative. Not “Apple” or “North” creative because we do not have enough money to buy our children friends.  But just creative enough that our kids are “the kids with the cool names”. That’s basically my life goal. The.Boy is not quite as on board, because he just wants to name all our children after our ancestors, but he’ll come around. Even if it requires bribery.

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This big hot curry noodle pot will warm you up from the inside out and cure all your winter woes!
big hot curry noodle pot

So I kind of think that a big bowl of highlighter yellow noodle curry is going to make our week.

I mean, it’s like sunshine that warms you from the inside.

And if that’s not a cure for the fifth-failed-attempt-at-cloning/where-is-spring-when-you-need-it/can’t-I-just-wake-up-and-be-done-with-my-PhD blues?

Then we really are in dire straits.

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Roasted eggplant bisque with harissa and parmesan crisps – a bold-flavored soup that is simultaneously creamy, spicy and crispy.
roasted eggplant bisque with harissa and parmesan crisps

Not that women’s undergarments are an entirely uncommon sight on one’s morning commute, but a thong on 1st Avenue?

Right in the middle of the sidewalk? In broad daylight?

It’s the kind of thing that gets you thinking.

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This pistachio cake with honey vanilla buttercream frosting is a true celebration cake – with a light crumb and a delectable frosting, it’s the kind of cake that you will never forget after that first bite.
pistachio cake with honey vanilla buttercream

This cake is just not a good listener.

I started out every morning for the past six days explaining to it that, yes, we’d had a good run but it was time to go our separate ways. Say adieu. Run away and never look back.

And then the end of the night would come and there it was. In my belly. Showing absolutely no remorse for its sordid ways.

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