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Stitch school enrollment cake

Made some cookies with niece #1 inspired by Crumbl Cookies!

She keeps trying out fun recipes and trends but never asks her trained confectioner uncle for help 😭 So inspired by my relapse into Cookie Clicker I suggested this and we had lots of fun over 2 days making this dozen (plus some extra choclate chip ones from the leftover dough)

We think these turned out great and they actually crumbled (unlike the wet slop I see people show off from CC)

Flavors under the cut!

Source: beth_thefirstyear on Instagram

I have four muffin tips for making bakery style muffins at home.

Tip number one:

Rest your batter for 15 minutes in your mixing bowl after you make it. This is gonna allow the starch molecules to swell and absorb, creating the thicker batter and the thicker batter is known for doming!

Tip number two:

Fill your muffin holes with at least six to eight tablespoons of batter. That’s like a heaping half cup okay. You want them super full so they’re gonna create that dome.

Tip number three:

Kinda goes along with tip number two. You’re only gonna fill every other hole in your muffin pan. And why we do that - that’s so the muffins that are baking can spread and dome without running into their neighbors. Because when they run into their neighbors they get like square edges but we want perfect dome circles.

Tip number four:

You’re to bake your muffins at a high temperature initially. That’s gonna be 425*F for the first seven minutes. And then keep them in the oven and lower the temperature to 350*F for the remaining bake time. Starting the muffins off at a high temperature initially allows the muffins to rise rapidly and it sets the outer surface of the muffin, producing a dome shape.