l'emprise de la gourmandise

After nearly half a year, I am still alive! Busy season didn't quite eat me up completely. I can't believe that it's soon already over. Here is a little snippet from my holiday baking. Unfortunately, I did not manage to take as many pictures as I wanted during the Christmas holidays.

mini carrot cupcake topped with cream cheese icing

And yes, you might have noticed that the blog name changed (thank you L for the AWESOME and AMAZING name, clearly only you can come up with something this eloquent ;). I actually received a message from the owner of Delices et Caprices, another food blogger. Although her (or him?) words were pretty short and blunt, I did have the same name as theirs. I clearly didn't do my homework by checking out if it existed before. So, to avoid any further confusion, I decided to change blog name which was a tedious task, but much easier thanks to L ;)

So I officially welcome you to "l'emprise de la gourmandise". Don't shy away from gluttony ;)

brownie cookies

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oatmeal carrot cake cookies

There's still some grated carrot leftover from my carrot muffins, but I think it'll be easy to use that up. So with most of the remaining carrot, I decided to make cookies. They turned out to be super moist and also surprisingly healthy! This makes an amazing guilt-free afternoon snack.

Nom nom nom

carrot muffins

There are so many recipes out there for carrot cake/muffins. It was really hard to find one that had all the ingredients I wanted to use. I stumbled upon a recipe for something called morning glory muffins. The name itself sounds delightful! I don't know where that name come from, but it contained grated carrots and unsweetened shredded coconut, two ingredients that I was keen on using (the coconut was left over from the time I made macaroons). If anyone does know why those muffins are called so, please let me know!

baby carrot muffin with his parents