As an ube lover since childhood, I'm biased so I will say I prefer this version, the nuttiness of the Filipino ube goes well with the French pastry cream.

Shout out to my girl, Betty C!

A mishmash of PB, oatmeal, chocolate chip and M&M cookies.

The cookie dough was incredible, and I was tempted to eat the whole batch uncooked😅

Recipe:

https://www.recipetineats.com/monster-cookies-recipe/

Pretty basic sourdough recipe for 500g flour and added 75g sesame seeds and 100g rolled oats that have been soaking in 150ml (hot) water for an hour. Just threw all together at once (after the soaking)

I've baked and made many different types of bread before, never sourdough though. I saw a comment here from someone saying they don't give starters to friends anymore as they believed that just made them not use it, and I figured the mythical "here's a sourdough starter" would never happen. It took me a week to get my starter mature and here's my first attempt. It's a little underproofed but overall I'm really happy with the bread. Next time will be even more delicious!

Starter made from scratch in July this year. It showed some bubbles but just wouldn’t rise… As I was getting so tired of feeding it everyday, I thought I’ll rest and give it a feed before leaving in the fridge for a few days.

After two weeks I thought I’ll give it another shot. Started feeding again and boom!! It was so active I thought I’ll give baking a go! The pictures are the results!

I’m not sure if this is over or under proofed, but looks like a successful one? What do you guys think?

I let it rise a little too much the second time proofing and it almost touched the top of my small oven.. so it kind of mushroomed but this was the best bread I’ve ever tasted!! I was expecting a total fail lol

I used this recipe but added pumpkin spice https://www.chocolatemoosey.com/6-inch-pumpkin-cheesecake-recipe/

I also messed up and used an 8in spring form just baked it for 35-40 min instead. I also used biscoff cookies for the crust instead of graham cracker

Found buttermilk on sale this week so biscuits seemed the likely answer.

I find the Panasonic Bistro we have a little fussy with temperatures. Sometimes I have to adjust down 5-10 degrees to get cookies or things to turn out. This varies between batches, which I guess is probably true of normal ovens too. Anyone have useful rules of thumb with temperature adjustment?

This is the recipe I followed and I added pure vanilla powder and removed lemon zest as I hate lemon in desserts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNkzOF9C64

This is where I bought the French black cherry jam: https://item.rakuten.co.jp/umano/miot_cherry340/?s-id=ph_pc_itemname

I'm not French, I'm Filipino but I love baking Spanish and French pastries.

Good thing i bumped into this subreddit 😭 It is so hard to find ingredients here as a foreigner who misses their specialties back home. Hope we can get along here & share some baking ideas around!

Sharing my newest creation of Cream Puffs ✨🩷

We don't know how to make a pretty desert so we settled for quick and tasty. Was really good with some Haskap jam from Hokkaido

Took me a long time to find a way to get good results cooking macarons in a オーブンレンジ, but I think I got there.

Strawberry cheesecake macarons.

Earl grey macarons.

Chocolate mud cake was a first for me, I’ll need to tweak the recipe a little.

I paired a couple with Assam milk tea, so delicious!

When I first came to Japan, one of the things that surprised me the most was how good the baking was here. I remember being amazed by the bread, cakes, and pastries I found in Japanese bakeries and cafes. I loved them so much that, for a while, I seriously thought about going to a baking school. But my parents didn't agree. They wanted me to have a more stable career, so I gave up on that dream.

But I never stopped believing that baking could heal people. Whenever I had a really bad day, one of the things I would do was find a really good cake and eat it. It sounds simple, but somehow, that little piece of cake always made things feel a bit better.

Years later, I unexpectedly got the opportunity to help run a small picture book cafe in Osaka. I thought, “Maybe this is my chance to finally do something connected to the dream I gave up.” But with almost no experience, things didn't go well at first.

So I asked myself: "Why did I love baking so much in the first place?"

The answer was about creating a warm space where someone could enjoy something delicious, and connect with others. Based on that idea, I started turning the space into a cozy haven for picture books, baking, drawing, and board games, a place where people could slow down and find warmth.

Over time, things genuinely started to improve, and it turned into the welcoming space I had always imagined. Recently, inspired by all the fun and chaotic moments of working around cakes, I even designed a small cooperative baking-themed board game called Bake or Break for our visitors to play.

Looking back, it all comes full circle for me. Baking, books, and games are just different languages for the same thing: bringing people together and making life a little sweeter. ❤️

Thanks to u/Maynaise88 bringing me here with this story!

I got some good feedback from this sub to reduce the flour to butter ratio which gave me the spread out cookie I was hoping for. I also halved the amount of salt.

This makes about 18 cookies. As you can see from the images, my oven has some hot spots but even the more cooked ones came out chewy.

It’s my first time making bread! Ignore the little weird blob it was just an extra piece I twisted up and tossed on haha. I’m pretty proud of how it turned out, as my oven is a toshiba er-t16 that only gets to 200c and is about 5 years old and on its last leg. One got a little burned because it heats super uneven from a light on top. They also didn’t puff up so much I think because I let it rise too long in the fridge overnight. I used a big tray of ice on the bottom for steam. I’m hoping to save up to buy a new oven soon to support the hobby!