We have a nice mix of bakes in this roundup! Some chocolate, vanilla, breads, savory! I've been in a little bit of a baking rut the past couple months and haven't felt up to baking much. Now that it's Spring maybe I'll get back into making a new dessert every weekend.

Mint Chocolate Cookies

I bought Andes Mints bites around Christmas and still hadn't baked with them so I turned to my Handle the Heat Ultimate Cookie Handbook for a recipe! I ended up doing mostly mint candies and less chocolate chips because I wanted to use all the Andes, but they came out great! I always love a chocolate cookies and Andes are never a bad idea, this was a great mix of the two.

Hamburger Buns

I haven't made these since the Summer so when pulled pork was on the menu I decided to bake instead of buy! They're so easy to make and very tasty! They also freeze quite nicely so after they fully cool I freeze what we don't use and pull them out as needed. For one meal I baked up a pork butt (that we got for 99 cents a pound, woo!) and served on the rolls. SO GOOD! We also used them for veggie burgers.

Poğaça

This is the second recipe I've tried from Turkuaz Kitchen’s cookbook and it did not disappoint! I had too much ground beef defrosted for one of our meals and decided to make a half batch of these savory bread rolls. This version is filled with beef, onions, parsley and green onions as well as mozzarella. I only put mozzarella in half of them because I don't like cheese (in 90% of foods.) We really liked the flavor and I will definitely be making them again!

Pizza with Zucchini, Red Onion and Pesto

I had pepperoni pizza on the menu one week and decided to switch it up and use some leftover zucchini, red onion & pesto we had instead! I used the recipe from our King Arthur Baking School class we took a couple years ago at their Vermont location. To help the zucchini cook faster I sliced it using my mini mandolin slicer. We really liked how it came out, super light and fresh!

Vanilla Cupcakes

For Easter I didn't want to go out and buy any ingredients so I settled on making some simple, yet fancy, vanilla bean cupcakes! I don't usually do cupcakes because I'm horrible at frosting things. This recipe uses vanilla bean paste (which my mom just happened to buy recently) in both the cupcake AND frosting. They were super easy to make and I didn't do too bad with the frosting once I decided to pipe some on and then squish it flat on parchment paper before dunking in sprinkles. The ones I tried to frost normally came out a little messy, ha ha. I also made a couple with chocolate buttercream since my sister doesn't like just vanilla.

Crusty European-Style Hard Rolls - turned into Bunny Buns

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