u/TastesLikeChitwan

My dad died earlier than I thought was fair, but he did leave me with great memories of coming home from the first and last days of school to a simple boxed cake mix cake in a 9x13 inch pan, coated with canned frosting.

It's just another time of year that I celebrate his memory with food, and I'm hoping my little preschool-age kids will have this association with him too, despite never getting to meet him.

Salty Caramel peanut butter cake with fudgy caramel icing (penuche) from Yossy Arefi's Snacking Cakes. This is the second time I've made this recipe, but it's the first time I didn't screw up the penuche!

Book: World of Wonder

Illustrator: Cynthia Alonso

I am never bringing baked goods outside for a glamour shot ever again

Really great recipe, would totally make again. Opted for the meringue instead of the whipped cream topping in the book, which let me use the egg whites leftover from making the filling!

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When I was little, we'd come home from school on both the first and last days of the school year to a 9x13" pan of boxed cake mix cake, topped with frosting from a can. It's such a fond memory of someone I deeply miss, and who never got to meet my own spawn.

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Made this for my kid. The recipe is Yellow Cake from the book Baking By Feel (this feeling associated with this recipe in the book was Delighted!) and topped with the recommended chocolate cream cheese frosting. The bottom layer was just for fun: crushed Oreos + butter that I had stashed in the freezer, leftover from making a pie a few months back.

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The cake itself was a little dense but it did have a nice flavor. Young sir loved it.

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Added almond flour to the dough as per the notes for using cookie stamps. These are tasty cookies! First time playing with luster dust too...that was fun.

https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/maple-shortbread-sandwich-cookies-recipe

They were very tasty!

I've currently got this book on loan from the library and saw that the author has an errata sheet on her blog. Her site also says that these errors are present in the first edition. Maybe I'm just a dingus but I'd like to purchase this book but try to find a newer edition if possible and don't know how to verify the edition (it's not obvious on the copy I have). I'm attaching the amendments to the Straight-up Yellow Snacking Cake, which seems like it's an entirely different recipe rather than a simple omission or mistake.

Anyone have any comments on this edition, or any of the recipes from this book on general?

https://www.thevanillabeanblog.com/100-afternoon-sweets-errata-sheet/

Doubled the recipe and had to use about 50 gm of bluebs since I didn't have the full amount of rhubarb. These are nice little cakes! Think I'd hold back on a little of the cardamom next time. I love cardamom but think it can be overpowering in some of her recipes.

Super excited about the bucket of Crayolas I picked up. BUT my hands aren't as small and agile as when I was younger. I have had trouble finding some type of crayon holder that will help me hang onto them better. Does anyone have experience with something like this and can point me in the right direction?

https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/pan-de-cristal-recipe

This one is worth repeating!

We've been going the Friday night (or so) before mother's day, he picks some flower bouquets, and I grab anything else I'm in the mood for. It's laid back but it's very fun!

Edit (forgot the description!): flowers, red Leicester cheese, cookie butter, retinol night serum, Sulawesi medium roast coffee, crispy rice bars, and raspberry yogurt clusters

https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/golden-pull-apart-butter-buns-recipe

I used the tangzhong variation and kept these buns on the pale side. They're so soft and stuffed with black tahini, dried shredded coconut, and macapuno + syrup!

In 2020 when everything was weird, my brother and I bought each other The Filipino Instant Pot Cookbook. We live several states away from one another. We'd take turns on the third Thursday of each month selecting a recipe to try, and then have a video call afterward to discuss the process and the end result. We did this for 5 years until we completed as many of the recipes in the book as we both wanted to try.

We just sent each other copies of the new Hot Dog Cookbook. We're going to start Weenie Wednesdays this month, alternating between the book's categories of American Classics, International Styles, and Wild & Original. It'll take us about 4 years if we complete all the recipes. Really looking forward to it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Baking/s/Mvl1aBZQko

I wrote more about it here^^^ but I did a mini experiment to see if I could get these cookies a little thicker and with better texture variation like Claire describes, and it turns out that for me I need to bake them at a higher temp than 350F. I do verify the temp of my oven with an auxiliary thermometer.

That said, even freezing the dough first before baking at 350F is a big help. For me, they were so flat baked straight from the fridge even after a 48 hour rest (see third pic)!

But for next time, I'll stick with 425F.