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Neighbors are getting married next week, they're really awesome people. We get a lot of eggs from them, they hosted the Halloween party for the neighborhood last year. Made them a cake for the event as a gift!
I present to you all: Apple Pie Snickerdoodle thumbprints!
Components: strudel crumb topping, apple compote, modified snickerdoodle dough, cinnamon sugar.
Ingredients for crumb topping:
1/2 stick unsalted butter (if salted omit extra salt)
2 ounces flour
1 ounce brown sugar
1 ounce white sugar
Dash of cinnamon
Pinch of salt
Using (clean) hands, cut butter into the dry ingredients until combined and crumbly. Helps if the butter has time to soften! You will likely have extra, if so you can save it for making other baked goodies! (Don't eat raw unless you like raw flour)
Ingredients for apple compote-
1 or 2 crisp apples (the variety is your choice, just be sure it can hold its shape when cooked! Granny Smiths are the go-to for baking usually. I used honeycrisp.)
Splash of water (might not be needed the apples will release a LOT of juice)
Enough sugar to coat the apples (amount you want will vary by the amount of apple you have, coat the apples but don't go too crazy with it)
Dash of cinnamon
Butter (a quarter to half a stick, depending on amount of apples)
Peel and dice your apples, combine in pot with other ingredients. Simmer on low heat on stovetop, covered, for 15 minutes. Allow to cool. (I made mine the night before and chilled it in the fridge. You will likely have extra of this as well, which can be used for other baked goodies or eaten as is! Willing to bet it'd be a good icecream topping)
Modified snickerdoodles and assembly-
(Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit, it'll heat up while making the dough)
7.5 ounces butter
8 ounces brown sugar
2 eggs
.25 ounces vanilla
10 ounces flour
0.1 ounces baking powder
0.1 ounces salt
Cinnamon sugar (white sugar, cinnamon) for coating
Cream together the eggs, sugar, and vanilla. Gradually add in the eggs. Combine dry ingredients seprately, add once egg and butter/sugar are combined fully.
Scoop in 1 Tablespoon balls, roll in cinnamon sugar. On cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, place ball and press thumbprint softly into center of cookie. (The parchment paper is a must, it will make cleanup a thousand times easier and these are very messy cookies!) Spoon enough apple compote to fill the dent in the cookie- it will not take much. Try to avoid getting too much liquid. Sprinkle on crumb topping. A lot will likely end up on the baking sheet. You can try to save it, put it back on the cookies, etc. But I just left it. You have plenty more.
Bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 13 minutes. Allow to cool, then enjoy!
Made my own birthday cake this year, caramel apple upside-down cake. My dad suggested it after I made him a cherry upside-down cake for his birthday (he was upset I didn't eat any of it). I'm very happy with the results!
Presenting pastry fish inspired by FFXIV!
Ingredients:
Pie crust (from scratch)
Handful of raisins
Handful of pecans (couldn't find almonds. Toasted and roughly chopped)
Salt (to taste)
3 small honeycrisp apples (this made way too much filling could have gotten away with 1)
Saffron (just a little, no noticeable impact on final flavor)
Sugar (enough to coat apples)
Cinnamon (a small shake)
Nutmeg (a little freshly grated- it's strong)
Egg for egg wash
They turned out perfect aw yeah.
Mutuals I am shoving warm muffins through your screens.
I made double chocolate banana muffins :3 they baked around 40 ish minutes.
It is time. For baking crimes.
Divided the dough in half so we can have normal chocolate chip cookies too.
Crimes committed 1/2 cup cocoa and 1/4 cup flour
Ready for baking >:)
The base recipe
It is time. For baking crimes.
Divided the dough in half so we can have normal chocolate chip cookies too.
Crimes committed 1/2 cup cocoa and 1/4 cup flour
Ready for baking >:)
Results: delicious. They taste like fudgey brownies.
The recipe:
1/3 cup butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 beaten egg
Splash of vanilla
1/4 cup self rising flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/4 bag milk chocolate chips
Baked at 375F 13 minutes
It is time. For baking crimes.
Divided the dough in half so we can have normal chocolate chip cookies too.
Crimes committed 1/2 cup cocoa and 1/4 cup flour
Ready for baking >:)
Made a lemon blueberry buckle from our rustic fruit desserts book. The cake itself is light and tasty- then the crumb topping and lemon syrup it's topped with give it the taste of lemon candy. It's good! I did use vanilla instead of nutmeg in the cake. This thing has the zest of two whole lemons in it (one in the cake, one in the crumb topping) then the juice of both lemons gets turned into a syrup that goes on top.
Recipe from "Rustic Fruit Desserts" by Schreiber and Richardson