Vanilla Cream Cheese Cupcakes with Blackberry Lemon Buttercream + a Giveaway!

Vanilla Cream Cheese Cupcakes with Blackberry Lemon Buttercream recipe (via the pigandquill.com) #dessert #baking

Twenty-seventeen, you guys. Woof. And the holidays. Woof Woof. This year was confusing, to say the least. I spent the first half chemically incapacitated, the second half wholly elated, and the whole lot of it at a loss for words as humanity continues its attempts at devolution. But in this moment, I am stuffed to the gills with treats and sweets and roasted meats — and plenty of other fine examples of gluttony that don’t happen to rhyme. And I am pushing cupcakes on you at the very last minute, begging you to make them happen in your own kitchen … Read More

Creamy Cashew-Maple Matcha Lattes (Vegan) + and a Giveaway!

Creamy Cashew-Maple Matcha Lattes (Vegan) via thepigandquill.com #dairyfree #greentea

Happy Thanksgiving week, friends! This past year has been so tumultuous — moreso, even, than I anticipated when I was drafting last year’s post on thankfulness from under a cozy blanket of blissful ignorance and optimism. But on Thursday, we’re hosting Thanksgiving for the first time since we moved back to California, and I’m ready to spoil the family that has kept our spirits afloat despite the leaden cloak of cancer with love in the form I know best: food. But rather than sharing our holiday dinner plans here (no matter how much I love the word spatchcock, I’m in … Read More