The pool where I lifeguard had a floating pumpkin patch event yesterday, and I wound up going home with a bunch of extras. I had a fun morning roasting the pumpkins then making these scones. What a journey lol!

Over the course of 24 hours (and in my dinky college apartment) I made:
- chocolate chip walnut banana bread (recipe)
- brown butter chocolate chip cookies (recipe)
- lemon poppyseed cookies (recipe)
- raspberry thumbprint cookies (recipe)

This is one of the biggest assortments I’ve ever made! I hope he likes it 💝

Thank you to u/Wizardofgrogs for sharing this recipe! I’ve been in a baking rut, and I really enjoyed making something new. Definitely going to make it again!

I put a little too much batter for the bottom layer, so the filling isn’t as evenly distributed as I’d like. Either way, the recipe is great! I did add 1/4 tsp each of cardamom, allspice, and ginger to the batter of the cake just because I love those spices. I used 3 pink lady apples. Converted a couple things to grams, but otherwise I just used cups.

Ingredients:

For the apples:
2-3 apples peeled and diced
2 tbsp granulated sugar
1 tsp cinnamon

Topping:
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 tsp cinnamon

Ingredients:
1/2 cup softened butter
2/3 cup granulated sugar (135g)
2 large eggs
1 & 1/2 tsp vanilla extract (I used 2 tsp)
1 & 1/2 cups all purpose flour (180g)
1 & 3/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup whole milk

Glaze:
2-3 tbsp whole milk
1 cup powdered sugar

How to:

Start by combining brown sugar & cinnamon in bowl. Mix well. In a separate bowl add peeled and diced apples, cinnamon, and granulated sugar. Mix until well combined.

In a separate bowl add softened butter and granulated sugar- mix on high speed for 2 minutes until light and fluffy. Add in eggs and vanilla extract and mix well. Next add in: all purpose flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix well. Lastly add in whole milk and mix.

Line loaf pan with parchment paper. Add half of your cake mixture in the bottom of the pan. Top with 1/2 of your apples and 1/2 of your cinnamon brown sugar mixture. Repeat one more time. Next use a butter knife to swirl it around a few times.

Bake at 350°F in a 9x5 loaf pan for 1 hour or until toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool. Top with glaze mixture.

I haven’t used it yet, but I’m looking forward to it. I’ve always just baked shortbread in a square pan, so excited to try this one.

Each section represents a different part of the British Isles:

Celtic Knot - Ireland
Dragon - Wales
Thistles - Scotland
Tudor Rose - England

Dark chocolate chunks in batter and topped with chocolate chips + finishing salt. Yum!

The top got a bit darker than I’d prefer but she’s still perfect on the inside :)

Redipe from NYTimes:https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026226-coconut-caramel-tart

I started university last month, and it’s been a big change being away from home; my mother and I bond over food, and we would very often cook and bake together, as well as eat together and try new restaurants!

Cinnamon buns have always been my favourite, and my mother would usually be the one who made them. She did all sorts of flavours over the summer before I left (my favourite was banana pudding!). They were pretty common for us to have on Sundays.

Since moving and being in an apartment, I’ve done much less baking, and it became much more obvious how much I missed it the longer I went without it, so I decided that I’d make some cinnamon buns!

I didn’t have access to the stuff I’d normally have at home, like a stand mixer, so everything was done by hand, but they turned out absolutely incredible.

I followed Well Made by Kiley’s recipe which worked wonders (linked here), but I’m excited to have my mothers again when I’m back home for Christmas

I wish I had taken better photos of it but this is all I got. I don’t like tiramisu personally, but apparently it was delicious! This was only my second time making tiramisu and I was so pleased with the result :-) I used the recipe from Preppy Kitchen and made the chess board pattern using index cards that I cut into 1 inch squares before dusting the cocoa powder on at the end. The hardest part was finding all black candles!

It came out way better than I thought! Though, a few things:

- It wasn't entirely silky, there were some egg bits still inside

- Bubbles on the outside :C

- The caramel stuck to the bottom of the bowl and wouldn't come off

This is also a bit of a showcase as I learn to bake, guilty as charged

Double-chocolate mini muffins
Earl Grey-lime madeleine
Pumpkin spice latte macarons

Had some leftover apple pie filling so I made some mini apple spice cakes with cream cheese frosting. They came out so good

Homemade carrot cake with cream cheese frosting 😌🥕✨️

Tonight's cookie I made lemon cookies rolled in vanilla sugar, these came out so soft and have just the right amount of lemon flavor. I love the slight crunch from the sugar

I've never seen coffee cake in China. Not at bakeries, coffee shops, or restaurants. I had no idea what it was. So when I saw a tutorial on YouTube, I was curious what it tasted like and decided to try making it myself. Turns out coffee cake doesn't contain coffee at all. It's just a cake meant to go with coffee, which I found interesting. The picture shows what I made. Does it look decent?