Baking For The Fun Of It!

Baked a cake for Elizabeth’s birthday! The frosting was yummy. Haven’t tried the frosted cake.

Lemon poppyseed muffins made with yogurt, lemon zest, fresh lemon juice. From cremedelacrumb.com. Had to bake longer than the recipe said. Everyone loved them

Visiting Will and Elizabeth. After dinner had a hankering for something sweet. Everyone, including roommates Monica and Jacob, agreed on brownies. No white sugar in the house so used light brown sugar. Otherwise followed the same family recipe that I’ve posted before. Very ooey and gooey. Shown on a Rachel Kozlowski Christmas Plate from West Elm.

So what do you do on a rainy day? Roast vegetables. Yesterday the high was 84F today 55F. The house smells good.

George finished the last batch of ginger snaps so made a different recipe. These are from my Grandma Lucy’s cookbook. Very simple and quick. Shown on a polka dot cake stand.

Bob and Martha wanted cookies. I couldn’t bring myself to make the same oatmeal raisin recipe again. Instead I used my grandma’s oatmeal raisin cookies. I just dropped them - instead of rolling and cutting into slices.

George started buying ginger snaps at the store. So had to make him some cookies. I used the recipe on the inside of the crystallized ginger. Pretty yummy.

Made grandma’s brownies. Double batch to fit in the brownie edge pan. Donated for a bake sale.

Last week I made chocolate chip cookies with regular size chocolate chips. This week somehow mini chips ended up my shopping cart. So I downsized the cookies. Still taste yummy and giving to friends with kids.

Another mocktail for dry January. Paloma! Contains grapefruit juice, grapefruit seltzer, lime juice, and simple syrup. Same webpage as yesterday’s mocktail.