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So, any of you bakers here? I love baking, especially making cakes/cookies, so I figured I'd start something about that, hahaha. I'm actually pretty decent at it, but since it's just me and my husband and he's always "Trying to eat better," I can't make anything too often, unless it's a special occasion.

One easy, delicious recipe I found recently you guys would probably like: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/easy-oreo-truffles/

Seriously, 3 ingredients, no baking! Also, it's chocolate and cream cheese: Mmm! The hardest part, here, is if you don't have a double boiler for the chocolate. You'll end up using a microwave. The best I can tell you is to keep the microwave at veeeery low, and only bake it for 30 seconds at a time, stirring it. Chocolate can be tricky to heat up in that, and if it stays solid, just breaks powdery-like, it's ruined. Start over with new chocolates, and turn the microwave down lower!

Another thing I like to bake is cakes I used to want to be a cake decorator, but working at a bakery taught me maybe I'm just better off baking delicious cakes, because icing them is hard, lol. Last night I made a delicious German chocolate 2 milks cake with an orange-vanilla buttercream frosting. (I love chocolate + orange, and I love vanilla + orange... German chocolate cake is traditionally 70 percent chocolate and 30 percent white cake, lol).

How about you all, do you like baking? Or any favorite desserts to share?

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I don't do a whole lot of baking, but every now and again I make a batch of chocolate peanut butter (and chips) and M&M cookies. They're delicious. Of course, I'm rather lazy during the school year, so they generally only make an appearance around Christmas and Easter (you know, when I've got an abundance of time).

I'm actually baking cupcakes for my daughter's birthday as I write this. My best friend and I used to do occasional cake decorating when we were kids. It was lots of fun, and I've always loved baking, though I don't do it on a regular basis. I think I'll buy a double-boiler this year...

Hey everyone, wanted to bump this to share basically the tastiest thing I've made in months, and it's super cheap, easy, and no-bake!! I did modify it a bit, I'll show you how:


http://www.thekitchn.com/-cookbook-recipe-137474

1.) I didn't put an icing on top. If I had, I'd have just melted white chocolate chips and used that instead.
2.) Ok, I basically took the gist of that and did my own thing. Made the pudding with pudding mix plus half the milk, replacing that other half of milk with white chocolate coffee creamer and whipped cream (I'm a health nut, you see ;D). I like to improvise like crazy, because once you have a base knowledge of how food works, it's cheaper that way because I didn't want to go out and buy more things for what I already had.
3.) Instead of using whatever flavors they used, I used chocolate pudding layered alternately with cheesecake pudding. It was awesome.
4.)I started with a layer of graham crackers, but to soften them up extra lined the pan with the white chocolate creamer.


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You're telling me that there's no hope.

I'm telling you you're wrong.

I have way too much fun baking during the holidays and in general. The good news is that my husband has a bigger sweet tooth an anyone I've ever met so it all gets eaten. I usually stick to cakes and cookies but I'm going to branch out into pies this season and poke my way out towards jams and other desserts. Chocolate Mousse I'm looking at you. >: )

My forte is in lavender tea cookies. They're light and fluffy and eat more like a cake or a scone than a cookie.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/lavender-cookies/

This was the recipe I started with, but since then I've tweaked it to suit our tastes, more vanilla and lavender for us! What it doesn't tell you to do is make sure to put the cookie sheet on the highest rack in the oven and make sure you bake on parchment paper.

The cookies are great with everything, not just with tea. I make a plate of them and they vanish in an hour if I don't keep an eye on them. If you want to try to make them, be sure to get food grade lavender buds from a good source, like the baking isle in the grocery store if you're lucky enough to find them there. A lot of shops will stock the buds for metaphysical or potpourri purposes and haven't prepared them for food use so you want to be careful. I pick mine up through http://www.myspicesage.com/ They offer large amounts for great deals. : D


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I'm actually not that big on baking, but I do like the results! I also like having some control over the ingredients that go into my goodies.

I make a lot of the usual stuff, but things like brownies and pies are usually the first treats I consider, since they seem to require the least amount of work. Cookies usually require more work than I care for, but I'll always make time for the occasional batch of chocolate chip oatmeal cookies . No cake, though. I'm not a big fan of cake. Unless it's cheese cake. LOVES me some cheese cake, that I do.

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Nice bump, Ash!

It's fall, which means I start baking much more than usual. Even though I am no longer in my beloved, agrarian midwest, where fresh fall foods are abundant, I've still managed to make one of my favorite foods of all time: zucchini bread. The zucchini keeps the bread good and moist while giving the bread a mildly sweet, vanilla-y taste for which even the zucchini's greatest critic could find no worse insult than "pleasantly inoffensive". I use a recipe that my family's had for years and years, but this one seems fine, if rather heavy on the sugar: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/moms-zucchini-bread/

Since zucchini (or courgettes, as they are called here) are hard to come by in convenient size for baking, I decided to try a new recipe just in case: butternut squash bread. Luckily, both worked out well! I used this recipe, though once again it's unnecessarily sugar-y: http://whatscookingamerica.net/Bread/Butte...SquashBread.htm. The squash, again, makes the bread moist, and you get a fair amount of the butternut flavor in the end as well.

Good stuff, and both perfect for the fall season!

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