Christine Janocko

Author's details

Name: Christine Janocko
Date registered: July 11, 2009

Latest posts

Boston cream pie cupcakes — August 16, 2011
Junk food cookies — August 4, 2011
Blueberry cheesecake French toast casserole — May 30, 2011
Oreo fudge brownies — April 29, 2011
Carrot cheesecake with lemon sour cream topping — April 26, 2011

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Aug 16

Boston cream pie cupcakes

Categories:

Desserts

by Christine Janocko

Is "Boston cream pie cupcakes" the most confusing name for a dessert ever, or what? Yeah, it totally makes no sense. But you know what's not confusing? How delicious these cupcakes are!

Tags: chocolate, cupcakes, vanilla pudding

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Aug 04

The other day I got a text from a friend who was eating lunch with another friend at The Neon Carrot. She sent me a photo of this crazy-looking cookie with, like, random foodstuffs sticking out from all angles. It was called the Junk Cookie. They asked that I recreate this cookie for this blog, …

Tags: candy, cookies

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May 30

Blueberry cheesecake French toast casserole

Categories:

Breakfast, Easter

by Christine Janocko

Hey, did you know May 26 was National Blueberry Cheesecake Day? I did, and that’s why I made this tasty blueberry cheesecake French toast casserole! OK, so I’m definitely using the term “cheesecake” loosely here. But you’ll forgive me when you taste it!

Tags: blueberry, cream cheese

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Apr 26

Carrot cheesecake with lemon sour cream topping

Categories:

Desserts, Easter

by Christine Janocko

I'd never really realized how much my family liked cheesecake until the year I unveiled a pumpkin cheesecake during our Thanksgiving dinner. Everyone liked it so much that I've been ordered to make that cheesecake for every Thanksgiving and Christmas since, and despite its now-ubiquitous holiday presence, there's rarely leftovers. So when I stumbled across …

Tags: carrots, cheesecake, sour cream

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Apr 12

Easy cinnamon croissants

Categories:

Breakfast

by Christine Janocko

Someday I'm going to make croissants from scratch, I promise. It's just that the croissant-making process sounds so complicated and time-consuming and, frankly, frightening. It's so much easier to buy them all baked and ready to eat, don't you think? This recipe for cinnamon croissants is sort of a compromise. The hard part — making …

Tags: cinnamon, croissant

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Apr 04

Mock apple pie with streusel and caramel

Categories:

April Fool's Day, Desserts

by Christine Janocko

This was the best apple pie I've ever made.* And it wasn't even apple pie! Let me explain. You see, several months ago, my co-worker Joetopia was complaining about a recipe in Heloise's column, as he is wont to do. It was a recipe for a mock apple pie, which was made not with apples, …

Tags: caramel, crackers, pie, streusel

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Mar 16

Irish cream brownies

Categories:

Desserts, St. Patrick's Day

by Christine Janocko

You know what we haven't made in a while? Brownies. Only joking! How could I forget last month, when we had brownies up the wazoo. Even so, how could I pass up an opportunity to make Irish cream brownies for St. Patrick's Day?

Tags: alcohol, brownie, whipped cream

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Mar 09

Mardi Gras king cake with cream cheese filling and lemon icing

Categories:

Desserts, Mardi Gras

by Christine Janocko

A consequence of never having spent much time in the Southern U.S. is that I've missed out on delicious regional treats. Like king cake! Apparently king cake is a really big deal in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. But living here in California, I'd never seen or even heard of king cake until I was …

Tags: bread, cream cheese, icing

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