Red Velvet Cupcakes

Boys and ghouls, the most wonderful time of the year is finally upon us.  HALLOWEEN.  My most favorite holiday of all (sorry Arbor Day) is but 3 days away, and I am SO EXCITED.  I get to dress up for a costume contest at work tomorrow, which obviously means two things – over the top…

Oatmeal Scotchies

As I write this, my entire apartment smells like baked butterscotch and warm oats.  There is enough of a breeze that it’s “chilly”, which by Florida standards means “not 100% humidity/on fire”, and maybe…just maybe…if I pretend hard enough…it feels like real, actual, bona fide fall. Oatmeal Scotchies are a Wez family staple.  My mom –…

Lemon Curd Pound Cake

In keeping with the “this could be us but you Florida” theme of my fall, today I whipped up a citrusy take on a pound cake.  Pound cake, of the same family as banana bread which is NOT fooling anyone, is essentially just loaf-shaped cake but it at least has the decency to call itself…

S’mores Waffle Cupcakes

It’s fall in my neck of the woods, finally! Though in Florida that doesn’t really mean much – palm trees don’t exactly change colors – it meant fires and hot chocolate and pumpkin (so much pumpkin) and apple cider and everything fantastic about New England when it’s cold, but not tooth-chatteringly so.  Though not *technically* a fall…