I cannot really call this a "blog" - first off, my photography SUCKS and I am the first to acknowledge that. Secondly I don't make up any of my own recipes, I just use what other people have come up with, sometimes substituting ingredients according to what I have on hand - but I will classify it as my Baking Diary. Over the past year, I have made a combination of old favorites and brand new (to me) recipes, had many successes and a few outright failures, and had fun sharing these goodies with family and friends.
About mid-way through the year, I calculated how much butter I used in previous recipes and realized in horror I had used EIGHT POUNDS of it. So, starting in the spring I made a conscious effort to choose recipes calling for little to no butter, and I can honestly say that I preferred the recipes in the second half of the year to the butter-heavy recipes in the first half of the year. Coincidentally - or not! - I also ended up using less sugar in the second half of the year. So I could classify several of these as relatively "healthy" desserts and snacks.
I went through the archive and came up with a recap of favorites and failures!
Old favorites (always on heavy rotation in my baking repetoire):
-Chocolate chip banana bread
-Walnut Jam Cake
-Cranberry Tart
-Chocolate Cherry Zucchini Cake
-Peanut Butter Blossoms
-Lemon Crunch Blueberry Muffins
New favorite cookies:
-Chocolate espresso shortbread
-Chocolate walnut cookies
-Pecan, Oat and Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies
New favorite cakes:
-Mexican Lime Icebox Cake
-Roasted Banana Cupcakes with Honey Cinnamon Icing
-Macaroon Cake
CAKEWRECKS (kinda scared to ever try these again):
-Orange Glazed Polenta Cake
-Spiced Honey Cake
-Fresh Plum Cake
Honorable Mentions:
-Old Fashioned Blueberry Cake. This cake came together beautifully, however, the strong molasses flavor paired with the sweet blueberries made for a weird combination. I guess if you are a huge fan of molasses, this could be perfect for you. Maybe next time I will use a lighter molasses variety.
-Peach Beer Sorbet. This was Out of This World Delicious and sooo easy to make. It tasted like summer on a spoon. Perfect in every way. I have a tiny bit of this left in my freezer and I will be sad when it is all gone!
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