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Pumpkin spice cheesecake, because there’s no end to celebrating all that is October
Eats & Drinks | Classic French Croissants
The one thing I will always remember about Paris is the croissants at a bakery a block away from our Airbnb. They were astounding and cost less than $1 US. When we returned I immediately tried to find an easy replacement. No grocery store or coffee shop croissant came close, so my daughters and I tried making them. I hit pay dirt on our first recipe! I have to give full credit to finecooking.com…
Leaving doughnuts. Great day to be in the office.
#macsnacks #donuts #krispykreme #doughnuts #snacks #officelife #sweettreat #sugar #glitter #iced #baking
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8-Bit Heart Cookies
Yields 12 cookies
The things you’ll need
Ingredients- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon extract
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- Red, white, and black buttercream in decorating bags fitted with #5 tips
- Medium bowl
- Large bowl
- Hand mixer
- Rolling pin
- Plastic wrap
- Whisk
- Rubber spatula
- Baking sheet lined with parchment paper
- Ro’s 8-bit Heart cookie cutter
- Offset spatula
Let’s get started!
- Preheat ovent to 350°F.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
- In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Add an egg and mix well. Pour in extracts and mix again.
- Combine the wet and dry ingredients and mix until no dry ingredients remain.
- Form into 2 discs, wrap plastic and chill dough for 30 minutes.
- Roll dough out to ¼-inch thick and cut into 8-bit heart shapes. Bake for 10 minutes.
Time to decorate!
- Once cool, use a #5 tip to pipe black squares and rectangles around the border of each cookie.
- Fill the center of the cookie in with red frosting using a #5 tip.
- Pipe a white “reflection” in the top left corner of the cookie with a #5 tip.
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I dare you to find more beautiful and artful cookies. Go on. I’ll be waiting.
All cookies made by Cookie Cowgirl
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Hell. Yes. That is some tasty freakin pie.
The best part is that this recipe is insanely easy. Found it on AllRecipes.com. The lattice is actually really simple too, it only looks complicated. Just check out this tutorial on YouTube.
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anyone wanna see the cake we just made
(we tried to stencil powdered sugar too but it got kind of fucked up)
Tips for baking with arthritis and other hand-related chronic pain
I luckily haven’t had to deal with much chronic pain or hand pain yet, especially with regards to baking (crochet is another story). That said, these look like some pretty solid tips! There’s also some in the comments section.
As this link nears five hundred notes, I’m just… very quietly touched at how many people are sharing it. Whether they need it themselves (or think they will someday), or know someone else who might need it, the fact that all of them are sharing the sentiment of “I want the people who love doing this thing to be able to keep doing the thing that they love” is… yeah. It makes me happy.
With everything so serious in the world right now, here’s some good news in the world:
Bread is bringing folks together
The endangered African Black Rhino is increasing in population due to conservation efforts
CO2 emissions in India are dropping for the first time in 4 decades
Whaling in Iceland has been haunted for the second season straight
Some Dutch bus stations are being turned into bee havens
People around the world are turning to poetry
Victory gardens are making a reappearance in homes
Feel free to add positive news stories you’ve come across!
Oh, and an update on my vanilla extract. Coming along very nicely. BUT, you should really smell this. #amazeballs #vanilla #vanillaextract #homemade #foodporn #baking #madagascarvanillabeans #flavor #gigglesflintstone #CM1K (at Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
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Making homemade vanilla extract today, so in 12-24 weeks, I will have some killer extract. I made plenty, so if you want to come by in a few months for some to take home, you know where to find me. #vanilla #vanillaextract #baking #cooking #foodporn #extract #flavor #greygoose #vodka #vanillabeans #gigglesflintstone #CM1K (at Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
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One of the best things about bringing all of my belongings here to North Carolina, is I have all of my kitchen/cooking things so I get to bake scratch brownies. Yummy #yummy #brownies #homemadebrownies #baking #desert #foodporn #winstonsalem #gigglesflintstone #CM1K (at Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
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