Raspberry Streusel Bars

Yesterday, I got home from work and decided that I was going to play housewife.  I made a full dinner with everything from scratch (except I cheated and used frozen chicken breasts…ain’t nobody got time for that), and yet somehow I was not satisfied.  Then it occurred to me – bars! Yes, bars.  One of…

Cornmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Among my top 5 things I enjoy in life, I would say snacking is pretty far up there.  One of my ultimate favorite snacks is a perfect chocolate chip cookie – chewy on the inside, crispy edges, chocolate on chocolate on chocolate.  But…what if I could make them even more amazing? Enter tonight’s star –…

How? Why? A (not exactly) brief history of my baking love affair.

One of my earliest baking memories is being somewhere around 6 years old and misreading a recipe, adding 1/2 cup of salt into a batch of peanut butter cookies.  They were unsalvageable, but one thousand Mom points to mine for trying.  Then I had an Easy Bake Oven and would try to pawn off my…

Summer Berry Shortcake

I can almost guarantee that all of you, if not most of you, have at one point in your lives enjoyed the (seemingly summer-only) treat of a strangely sponge-like yellow cup with Reddi Whip and some strawberries in it.  My fiancé happens to love that, but how could I – wearer of a cupcake-based tattoo…

Hello world! Welcome!

Hello Planet Earth!  This is the blog that will go with my Instagram (wez_inthekitchen) in which I post pictures of the delicious things that I bake.  So if you want to bake them too, go on ahead!  If you re-post the recipes elsewhere on the internet (yayyyy you beautiful creature you), all I ask is…