Bring me into your kitchen - Chef Mila's Cooking Classes!

Skip to primary navigation
Skip to main content
Skip to footer

Home
About
Blog
Contact

Nav Social Menu

Girl and the Kitchen

Good Food. Done Right.

Search this website

Cooking Basics
Cuisines
- Asian
- Mexican
- Russian
Healthy Recipes
Holidays
Recipes

Sweets and Baking

This is what my New Year's is known for. My Babushka's famous Vafilney Tort is an extremely simple no bake cake filled with condensed sweetened milk, wafers and walnuts. The simplicity of this cake reminds me that New Year's Eve is best filled with nostalgia and the comfort of friends.

Musings of a Russian New Year and Babushka’s Vafilney Tort

Meet the one bowl cookie that is a cinch to make but dazzles everyone! It is the ultimate holiday cookie filled with chocolate and Nutella. Gorgeous sparkles and delicate crinkles make this cookie a show stopper for any holiday that needs a bit of dazzle.

Sparkling Crinkle Chocolate Nutella Cookies

My take on the classic Italian Apple Crostata is the perfect dessert for your dinner parties! Sweet and tangy apples wrapped in a crumbly and buttery crust and can be made the night before!

Classic Italian Apple Crostata

These copycat lofthouse cookies are the softest and fluffiest sugar cookies ever! They are the copycat recipe of all those store-bought cookies, only without preservatives and incredibly more delicious!

Copycat Lofthouse Cookies

These Double Chocolate Chip Cookies are the gooiest most chocolaty cookies ever!!! Filled with white chocolate chunks! These double chocolate chip cookies are the ultimate cookie for ANYONE!

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

This Custard Filled Cornbread is the king of all cornbread. It is deliciously sweet and incredibly tender and has a creamy custard center that will blow every other corn bread out of the water.

Custard Filled Cornbread

This super simple 3 Ingredient Christmas bark looks like Christmas perfection. White chocolate speckled with tiny pieces of pistachios and cranberries come together in just minutes and will make the simplest dessert perfect for the kiddos to help out on the Christmas morning.

3 Ingredient Christmas Bark

Dessert has never been this easy! My No Bake Nutella Tart features 5 ingredients and NO oven. This luscious make ahead Nutella dessert is perfect for those times when you need a dessert but cannot be bothered to turn on the oven. Plus learn the magic that is ganache and how it transforms any desserts.

No Bake Nutella Tart (5 Ingredients)

Nothing is better than candied apples...except eating them without making a mess. With my Halloween Candy Apple Pops you get all the flavor and the fun and none of the mess! Plus the kiddos love making and eating this healthier snack.

Halloween Candy Apple Pops

Rugelach are perfect little handheld cooked that are impossible to resist.. Filled with fruits and nuts and rolled up in a delicate cream cheese crust, my rugelach are perfectly sweet and delightfully tender. Trust me on this one, double the batch, your guests will thank you.

Mess Free and Easy Rugelach

A classic creme brûlée is the perfect dessert for ANY occasion. The creamy custard inside pairs beautifully with the crispy caramel outside. Plus it naturally comes with the best party trick around: torching. Prepare to blow away all your guests with this delicious and simple classic French dessert!

Classic Creme Brûlée

Meet a protein smoothie that tastes like a dessert indulgence! Loaded with dark chocolate, bananas, peanut butter and good for you protein this smoothie will make your muscles and your belly happy!

Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Protein Smoothie

« Go to Previous Page
Go to page 1
Go to page 2
Go to page 3
Go to page 4
Go to Next Page »

Never miss a recipe

Subscribe below to receive a 30 day meal plan

Footer

Search this website

Categories

Categories

This past weekend, I had the privledge and honor o

This past weekend, I had the privledge and honor of judging a competition with @fight2feed and @culinaryfightclub!
.
I was joined by incredible contestants, judges and some delicious street food!!!! The weather gave us strong enough winds to blow away tents and a torrential down pour right during judging!
.
But no one was phased. We all got soaked and welcomed the food even with a few rain drops :)
.
There were so many talented chefs but 2 incredible women won and go take the cake they were both some of Chicago’s finest in blue! 2 well deserving police officers won with their rendition of little fried dough balls filled with delicious and saucy pork. Who said that women can’t be chefs 😜😜😜
.

This weekend yours truly gets to be a food judge!!

This weekend yours truly gets to be a food judge!!! Come down on this Sunday August 29th to catch great food, music, shopping and an incredible culinary showdown!!!!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/culinary-fight-club-season-ix-opener-tickets-162085412833

PLEASE SHARE WITH ANY AND ALL OF YOUR CHEF FRIENDS

PLEASE SHARE WITH ANY AND ALL OF YOUR CHEF FRIENDS!!!!

I rarely stop to enjoy the positive feedback that

I rarely stop to enjoy the positive feedback that we get from our incredible clients… so here is a few extremely satisfied clients❤️
Including a BADA$$ athlete @diamonddoesit1 from the WNBA🏀🏀🏀
.
A very special thank you to my incredible chefs and servers for allowing our private cheffing and events to happen… flawlessly! ❤️
.
@rach_jake @chef.nicarrara @chefkarakgourmet @maegan.cullinan

Have you missed me? I’m just over here creating

Have you missed me? I’m just over here creating reels and content for you😜
.
QUESTION: What content do YOU want to see! Comment below and tell me your kitchen and healthy eating struggles 🥑🥑🥑
.
In the meantime I’ll work on perfecting my selfie game!

To drink or not to drink?🥃 . Screw it! It’s F

To drink or not to drink?🥃
.
Screw it! It’s Friday let’s drink! Here is my favorite bourbon cocktail🥃
.
🥃into a shaker, add in some bourbon, fresh berries, lemon juice, a splash of orange bitters and fresh mint
🥃muddle it all together with a muddler or a spoon
🥃add in your bourbon and shake the shaker!
🥃pour ice into a rocks glass🧊🧊🧊
🥃strain the mixture into the rocks glass. Feel free to top off with some sparkling water for some bubbles!
🥃take a lemon rind and rub it along the rim and drop it right in!
🥃 sip and enjoy❤️
.
Happy Friday❤️

Totally obsessed with this cheesecake chart! Thank

Totally obsessed with this cheesecake chart! Thanks @guarnaschelli for posting this!!!❤️
.
I love me a classic New York Cheesscake but that fluffy Japanese cheesscake looks EPIC!
What’s Your favorite?!??🙂

The 4 Step Cooking Method

Copyright © 2021 · Thyme Theme by Restored 316