My grandmother's breakfast fried rice, stuffed with bacon and eggs for a quick and hearty meal. The recipe I'm posting today is one of those family-favorite, special-occasions recipes. Growing up, we always served this fried rice for birthdays and New Year's day breakfast. It's white rice, fried up in bacon drippings, with chopped bacon, mushrooms, and scrambled eggs throughout. Top it ...
Tea Bag Cookies with Printable “Sherlock” Tea Tags and Bonus Recipe
Charming shortbread tea bag cookies, dipped in chocolate, with printable "Sherlock" tea tags. Are you ready for the Sherlock winter special? We all have the shows we love, possibly beyond reason. Sherlock is one of mine. The problem with loving this show is that it airs a three-episode season and then goes away for YEARS. The delight of loving it is that every time it comes back, ...
15 Tips for a Successful Day of Marathon Baking
Some helpful (and some questionably helpful) tips for those extended holiday baking marathons. Just a few more sleeps till Christmas! I'm officially on Christmas break, in vacation mode, watching weird 90's TV and trying (not very hard) not to eat too many Christmas cookies. The cookie thing's not going great, for reasons that will soon become apparent... ...
Snickerdoodle Sandwich Cookies With Eggnog Buttercream
Rich and delicious eggnog buttercream frosting snuggled inside of Snickerdoodle Sandwich Cookies makes for a perfect holiday treat! (November 2016 Update: I updated the old iPhone photos in this post, but if you scroll all the way to the bottom, there's still one old photo to remember Baking Mischief's pre-DSLR days by. ;) We're so close to Christmas that I can practically taste it! ...
My Favorite Gingerbread House Recipes, Tools, & Tricks
A few simple gingerbread house tips and tricks. In college, my sister and I started a gingerbread house tradition. While home for Christmas breaks, when the novelty of no homework began to wear off, just before the boredom of being home really started to drive everyone crazy, we'd put on a day-long marathon of movies, tear our parents' kitchen and dining room apart, and make a gingerbread ...
Miniature Hot Chocolate Cookies
These Miniature Hot Chocolate cookies are rich, chocolatey, and adorable! (November 2016 Update) This post has been updated with new, non-iPhone photos and edited to update some of the text and recipe notes. If you miss the old photography, I saved one of the old photos beneath the recipe to remember the good times. ;) How is your Christmas prep going? Mine's going great, if by ...
