KU cookies — brown sugar chocolate chip with red and blue M&Ms — to support my Jayhawks

For the cookie dough lovers: Chocolate chip cupcakes filled with eggless cookie dough and cookie dough-flavored frosting

Sweet, yet satisfying: comforting brown sugar chocolate chip cookies

Triple ginger snaps: fresh, ground and candied ginger grace this decadent cookie

Sweet potato cupcakes with a toasted marshmallow icing

Maple fudge with cashews, the perfect fall treat

Homemade Oreos that are so much better than the store-bought version!

Pumpkin spice cupcakes with a spiced icing, topped with black cat sprinkles in a nod to my black kitty, Melvin

For Daring Bakers, we made this Eastern European bread, povitica, with all the fancy swirls! Perfect for a holiday morning!

These festive Halloween cupcakes take a simple yellow cake & swiss meringue buttercream and make them into one of my favorites: candy corn!

The pumpkin-to-chocolate ratio in this spooky tart was perfect, despite my general aversion to pumpkin!

These brownies are super rich and endlessly customizable, but these are Halloween ones for their Fall colors and peanut M&Ms!

Mini Halloween Oreo cheesecakes: super easy and festive!

A twist on the traditional apple pie where you don’t have to worry about soggy crust: apple crumb pie (with almonds in the crust!)

Croissants for Daring Bakers…these babies took more than 12 hours to make!

Ginger molasses cupcakes to go with my awesome fall leaf sprinkles

Hi, my name is Brenna, and I’m addicted to rhubarb. I made these rhubarb crumb bars before it’s gone for the year!

Eat a cupcake, you shall. My inner nerd comes through in these Star Wars cupcakes: yellow cake with a fudgy frosting

Hazelnut praline mixed in with chocolate ganache, then rolled in crushed hazelnuts for a Daring Bakers’ truffles

A tasty way to use those ripe summer peaches: a peach galette

Julia Child’s chocolate almond cake for what would have been her 99th birthday

Cherry limeade cupcakes: Lime cupcakes with a maraschino cherry-flavored frosting modeled after my favorite summer drink from Sonic!