Winter Baking Recipes

Warm winter baking recipes with chocolate, caramel, cream, and cozy winter time desserts.

Cookie Dough Mousse (Episode 3: Milk & Cookies Series)

Cookie Dough Mousse (Episode 3: Milk & Cookies Series)

A light, cloud-like chocolate chip cookie dough mousse with real cookie dough flavor and chewy cookie dough chunks. Episode 3 of the Milk & Cookies series, perfect layered or spooned straight into dessert cups.

Brown-Butter Milk Cake (Episode 1: Milk & Cookies Series)

Brown-Butter Milk Cake (Episode 1: Milk & Cookies Series)

Brown Butter Milk Cake This brown-butter milk cake is the base of my Milk & Cookies Entremet — a soft, slightly dense sheet of cake that supports layers of cookie dough mousse, pastry cream, crumble, and silky milk-chocolate ganache. The flavor is pure comfort: warm…

Cookie Dough Cinnamon Rolls

Cookie Dough Cinnamon Rolls

Soft, fluffy cinnamon rolls filled with thick chocolate chip cookie dough chunks and topped with cookie-dough frosting and cookier crumble. These bake tall, tender, and melt-in-your-mouth delicious — the dreamiest cookie-meets-cinnamon-roll mashup.

Croissant Chocolate Bread Pudding Cake

Croissant Chocolate Bread Pudding Cake

A rich, custardy croissant chocolate bread pudding baked into a soft cake. This is Episode 1 of my Croissant Chocolate Marshmallow Cake series — and it’s incredible all on its own or as the base of the full cake.

Double Brown Butter Toffee Sandwich Cookies

Double Brown Butter Toffee Sandwich Cookies

Thick, chewy brown-butter cookies speckled with toffee bits and sandwiched around silky brown-butter cream-cheese frosting. Finished with white-chocolate drizzle and toffee crunch — cozy, nostalgic, and irresistibly buttery.