Biscoff Muffins

These muffins have a Biscoff swirl and a crumb topping with a hint of Biscoff!

These muffins are simply fantastic. I hate that I waited so long to make them. I have this really bad habit of putting breakfast recipes on my meal plan and I never get around to making them. In 2018, I'm going to attempt to make 2 breakfast recipes a week and see how that goes. Once I finally got around to making these muffins, I wanted to make them over and over again. There is regular batter that gets swirled with a Biscoff batter topped with Biscoff crumb topping. It's one of my favorite recipes for muffins and I cannot wait to have them again. They are perfect with a cup of coffee...almost reminiscent of coffee cake, in fact!

Biscoff Cookie Dough Ice Cream

Safe-to-eat Biscoff cookie dough in homemade vanilla ice cream - so decadent and delicious!

After making the monster cookie dough ice cream, I wanted to make more cookie dough ice cream because it's one of my all-time favorites. I actually had not had cookie dough ice cream until I was in 6th grade. I don't know why I never tried it, but my math teacher in 6th grade took a poll on our favorite ice cream for an example of something or another and the majority chose chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. I begged my mom to get some at the store and that's when my love affair started. I get the craving every once in a while and I go crazy and buy all kinds of cookie dough ice cream, but this time I wanted to make my own. The monster cookie dough ice cream is a no churn recipe, whereas this one requires an ice cream machine.

I used two different recipes and put them together. The biscoff cookie dough comes from Sweet Twist of Blogging and the ice cream base is from Julie's Eat and Treats. They went together perfectly and honestly...the cookie dough bites would be fantastic on their own. I didn't use all of them in the ice cream and snacked on them throughout the process :)

Biscoff Mug Cake

A single serving of cookie butter cake ready in a pinch - dreams do come true!

I was prepared to share a different biscoff recipe but decided to hold off and make it one more time to tweak it a tad more. I thought it was the perfect opportunity to share this little gem that I made to replace the other recipe. I hunted for the recipe that I had written down (I took a base mug cake recipe compared from a few different places and tweaked them to make this Biscoff version) and discovered that it was a post-it with no notes, just ingredients. So to be 100% sure that everything was good to go, I made it again. The first time, I swirled my Biscoff in. Today, I mixed it in with the wet ingredients. Both ways are fine. Both ways are tasty.

I'm still fairly new to Biscoff and have really loved the few recipes I've made using it so far. I think cinnamon and white chocolate go together with Biscoff very well, so that's why they ended up in this little mug cake. :) You will definitely have to adjust the cooking time according to your microwave. 50 seconds is a great place to start until you are able to get a good reading on how long it will take in your own microwave. Mine is a 1000-watt microwave and I did mine 60 seconds and then 20. It probably would've been fine at 60 but I did the extra to be certain.

Salted Chocolate Cookie Butter Bark #HandCraftedEdibles

In an effort to make all of my holiday gifts this year, we are sharing recipes for hand-crafted edibles. Over the course of twelve weeks, we'll be sharing recipes that you can make at home to give to friends and loved ones, or things to serve at holiday parties. We hope you'll follow along for inspiration. You can find out more information, including the schedule: here.

This week, we are letting out our inner chocolatiers shine, sharing all sorts of recipes with chocolate.

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I know it has been a few weeks since I've joined in with Camilla and the rest of the #HandCraftedEdibles crew but I am back and excited to share a chocolate treat with y'all today. I really wanted to share a treat that works well for gifting and my mind went to bark. Even though peppermint bark is my favorite, I could not pass up making one with cookie butter. Cookie butter is something that I tried (and failed) to find for over a year. I was lucky to stumble upon some one day at the store, on the end of the pet aisle of all places. I thankfully still have an unopened jar or two in my pantry, so I was able to make this bark without hesitation!

I was surprised at how easy this recipe was to make and it turned out so lovely. I adore recipes that come out aesthetically pleasing AND taste divine! Good all around, right?! The sea salt on the bark is honestly one of the best selling points for this recipe, if chocolate and cookie butter didn't already have you convinced to try it. That little bit of salt makes these an incredibly addictive treat.