I bought some whole wheat flour to make the sourdough starter so I wanted to use it to make some bread! I asked my husband what kind he wanted and he wanted a super seedy bread. I read a lot of recipes and just kinda did whatever to see what came out. I went to…
Category: JANUARY
ORANGE ROLLS
Cooper wanted some orange rolls and it’s something his grandma makes a lot but she’s out of town so I wanted to give it a try. Grandma usually makes them in muffin tins and does a light glaze. For me, there’s never enough orange. It’s like in between a normal roll and a dessert. So…
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES BUTTER TESTING
Cooper and I wanted to see just how different the cookies are based on which butter you use. I made 2 batches total so I used a half stick of butter and a half recipe for each butter. Here’s the link to my Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe I like using salted butter because a good…
SOURDOUGH STARTER DAY 3
IT’S ALIIIIVE. So many bubbles! Today is the first day of doing “discards” and feedings which I’ll be doing from now on. You can actually use the discard for some recipes so I put it in a different jar and put it in the fridge so I’ll try to find some other recipes I can…
SOURDOUGH STARTER DAY 2
Day 2 you just do another feeding. 60g of flour and 60g of water. But this time you do unbleached flour. I read you can use bread or all purpose but I don’t use my bread flour for much so that’s what I’m using. Day 2 starts to get funky! It starts making the bad…
SOURDOUGH STARTER DAY 1
Most of the baking I do is sweets so I want to get better at more “practical” baking like bread since you eat that more day to day than sweets. Sourdough has always kinda been intimidating because it takes a long time and there seems so be so many special things you have to do….
EMILY’s NO CHILLS NO FRILLS CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
Cooper asked me to make these and I’m glad because I felt like baking but I also didn’t want to do useless baking where I make something and it’s wasted. I’m planning on doing a side by side with fancy and cheap ingredients but this one kinda used fancy anyways. Cooper got some Kerrygold butter…
CREAM PUFFS (choux pastry or pâte à choux)
This was my first time trying a choux pastry! Everyone always said these are deceivingly easy and I would say they’re right. They come together pretty fast if you need something right then that’s fancy. As always, I did a little batch so I don’t waste things. I watched lots of videos because I was…
WHITE BREAD
I was asking cooper what he wanted me to bake because I was in the mood to try something new and he mentioned sandwich bread. I literally just googled “best white bread recipe” and chose this one because I would be able to make it in one day. https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017369-excellent-white-bread It’s time consuming in the way…
PIZZELLES
I got this new pizzelle maker from my in-laws for Christmas and I wanted to try it out. It turned out to be a fail in some ways and a success in others. I didn’t know what they were but they’re called pizzelle “cookies”. I didn’t know how they differed from stroop waffles. https://www.culinaryhill.com/pizzelle-italian-cookies/ This…
MIDNIGHT ICING 