February 21, 2019

Old Fashioned Sour Cream Donuts with a Brown Butter Glaze

February 21, 2019/ Victoria DiBarto

My all time favorite type of donut is the old fashioned donut. I love how they have a bit more crunch on the outside than other donuts, while still maintaining a soft, moist dough on the inside. The increased surface area, thanks to the ridges and indentations on old fashioned donuts, that allow for more glaze isn’t a bad thing either! ;) Since old fashioned donuts are a subset of cake donuts, you don’t need to mess with yeast and rising times in order to make these. However, we will need to deep fry these donuts, which I know can intimidate lots of home bakers. Ever since I developed my take on cronuts I have become more comfortable with deep frying. The biggest things to help with your success is…

December 07, 2018

Sweet Potato Gnocchi with a Brown Butter Walnut Sauce

December 07, 2018/ Victoria DiBarto

This gnocchi recipe is a labor of love! But cozying up at home with Christmas music in the background, and maybe even a fire going, creating these homemade gnocchi makes for the perfect hygge day! The sweet and nutty flavors from the sauce beautifully complement the earthy tones of the potato based gnocchi. Perfect for a romantic night with a loved one or a dinner party with friends!

July 11, 2018

Brown Butter English Toffee and Pretzel Cookies

July 11, 2018/ Victoria DiBarto

If you read last week’s blog post, you would already know that we have been having car troubles. We took our car to the Subaru dealership where we normally service the car, and found out that the transmission needs to be replaced, which would cost more than the car is worth. WHYYYYYYYY (insert all sorts of angry and sad emoji faces)?! So naturally after hearing this news we started frantically thinking about how we would get my car out here from California. We found cheap one way tickets to…

November 15, 2017

A Cozy Kitchen's Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Brown Butter Frosting

November 15, 2017/ Victoria DiBarto

Yesterday morning I woke up next to a 26 year old! It would have been more exciting had that time not been 4 AM. *insert fussy face here* One of the caveats of working as a hospital RN is that each year the hospital can give you a max of 3 "mandatories". Mandatories are - don't come in, and if you want to get paid for the day you have to use PTO time. Because of the inevitable politics associated, there are a lot of union rules surrounding these mandatories...

December 05, 2016

Brown Buttered Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

December 05, 2016/ Victoria DiBarto

Years ago my now husband and I traveled to Ecuador to volunteer at a mobile medical clinic. We spent the week traveling to villages in the Amazon shadowing physicians, distributing medications, and playing with the children. While we were not able to provide much direct medical help to those in need at the time, the experience impacted our journey to our own healthcare professions. To help raise funds to cover some of our travel expenses I put on an online bake sale for a couple months. My most popular item...