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November Baking 2024

Chocolate Peanut Butter Monster Cakes - 4.5/5

My friend bought me this cake pan as a secret santa gift and I finally used it and I am OBSESSED. There's nothing that delights me more than novelty-shaped food. I was too lazy to buy Reese's cups so I just made my own pb filling and it worked, but they're definitely a little dense and "dry" (they're really moist but like, it's so much you know), so

Not just for charlottes, I use my beautiful charlotte pan to bake single layer cakes and, as you can see here, cornbread. The edges bake up buttery and crisp. Leftover cornbread heats up beautifully in a conventional oven. I like to smear a little butter on a hot piece of cornbread - honey and jam are nice, too! My husband loves peanut butter on cornbread for breakfast. I served it with my favorite chili a few days ago.

I used my tried and true recipe for Perfect Cornbread. I posted it here years ago, but it’s still my favorite. 

I have so many ideas for this pan. Wedges look like hearts, something to ponder come Valentine’s Day. Perhaps a chocolate cake drizzled with ganache and decorated with raspberries? Come strawberry season, I’ll bake a shortcake in the pan and mound macerated strawberries and whipped cream in the recess. I see a cinnamon cake with sweeted, whipped cream cheese and topped with a caramel apple filling in the future. 

Eggless Baked Cream Cake … delicious with that layer of cream baked in!

Eggless Baked Cream Cake … a cake as delicious as it is interesting, that cream baked into the centre is divine! A light, tender, flavourful crumb and then the very indulgent cream baked in the centre takes this simple bundt cake to another level. Also, it’s very pretty, a nice bake for Easter. It’s taken me a bit to find a good crumb for an eggless pound cake, and I love the way this turned…

Sky, incredibly distraught: They used the pizza cutters on the pan as well!

Twilight, cradling the cookie sheet: We'll just gently scrape off the leftover crust on the pan and we'll just live with using parchment paper. It's going to be fine.

Wild: My baking sheet is ruined! This is unforgivable I don't know how to go on!

Wind, fucking books it: I don't know jack shit.