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Pink cupcakes with green frosting. The color scheme began when we made strawberry cupcakes and our toddler asked to make the frosting green "like a leaf" so the whole cupcake looked like a strawberry. Now regardless of the flavors, he always wants those colors. I think it's great 🀣

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 10 hours ago

Pizza! I have a pizza oven and I love a freshly thrown base. I make a sourdough base and its just delish.

[–] ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Generally speaking in our house my husband does the baking and I do more of the fancy cooking. It makes sense as he’s an analyst and I’m a lot more free form haha. That being said, since we got a bread machine I’ve been making bread more, it’s just too easy and comes out so good.

If I had to bake something right now though, I’d make a rhubarb crisp. Especially as that’s literally something I’m doing today since we have so much rhubarb! Hmm, maybe rhubarb and blueberry..

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 7 points 13 hours ago

I've toyed with a bread machine but I think I can't be trusted, I'll just end up eating bread all day. Home baked bread is just too good!

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

My top three faves are sourdough bread, layer cake, and macarons. Depends on how much time I have and who I'm trying to impress. I've finally gotten decent at bread. I can make a cake that tastes great but can't decorate better than a 6 year old. I'm surprisingly good at making macarons.

[–] Kayday@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Does pizza count? I'm going to start a new batch of dough today for dinner tomorrow.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 5 points 13 hours ago

Yes absolutely! Plus pizza can only be a good thing

[–] kipo@lemm.ee 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Banana bread if I have ripe bananas! It is easy, delicious, and makes the house smell wonderful.

[–] duckworthy36@lemm.ee 6 points 12 hours ago

Yep! I make mine with chocolate chips and pecans and add cinnamon nutmeg and cloves

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 6 points 13 hours ago

And keeps beautifully

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Myself, because I'm bad at cooking and good at getting high. XP

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I love baking.

My next project is the pink cake from the stardew valley cookbook.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Pink is always good! Have you made much from the starview valley book?

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Nope! To be honest there's not that many recipes that interest me in it.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 12 hours ago

Yep that's why I don't buy recipe books anymore! I'd only use a couple

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Chocolate peppermint crinkle cookies. People love them. They look cool because they're a crinkle cookie. They're ready. They have a fun story about how I fond the recipe. Perfect cookie to give to people. If they don't get eaten in a day, they stay soft for at least two days instead of hard rocks like a lot of cookies.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like there are literally no down sides to this cookie

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They're a fridge cookie, and a shaped cookie, so if you like cookies not taking awhile to firm up, or hate shaping cookies in your hands and getting a bit messy, they are not the cookie for you!

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 5 points 15 hours ago

Those are small prices to pay for cookies

[–] Gwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Apple pie! My favourite recipe uses lard, of all things. Really delicious and it works as long as there are no vegetarians. ☺️

[–] Greercase@lemmus.org 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Would you be willing to share the recipe? I have made them a few times for holidays and I find that I just can't compete with store bought. I like most my other pies more than store bought pies but apple is just so particular.

[–] Gwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 hours ago

Glad to share! I’ve been using this recipe for over a decade. :) Here it is: https://www.cooks.com/recipe/b35cq61x/holiday-apple-pie-1968.html

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 5 points 15 hours ago

Apple pie can only be a good thing

[–] Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 17 hours ago

I tend to avoid baking and im being quite hard on myself in regards to a diet atm so not really keen on eating carbs and sugar...

When I do bake its normally a victoria sponge, i've made a few and not messed them up too badly so far.

[–] Alice@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 14 hours ago
[–] slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

So... Someday i learned that you can make cookie stamps with a 3D printer very easily just from pictures and i had to promote something about electronics at work. So i made elektronic-circuit-looking cookies to luer colleagues in the lab. The were of course awesome

One day a colleague dumped his badge into his coffee mug that was standing on the table because his badge used to be on a necklace and he was bending over to connet a monitor for presenting. Some time later i thought it would be hella funny to make him a bunch of rectangular badge-sizes cookies that looked exactly like his badge, except they said: "badge to dip into coffee" He didn't even get the joke at first. He was just speecless i made cookies with his face. Any way, after getting the joke he showed them to everyone in the office that stepped by his desk.

Also when organizig workshops i once made the best cherry cheesecake that i ever made and i don't think i will ever make a better one. I often times think about it.

At one point i decided to become a cakefluencer and documented the process of making a rainbowcake. It tasted really disgusting because of all the coloring i was using. It looked relly cool though. The colleagues at work where nice enough to say thd liked it, maybe they really did. I don't know. (I did not become a famous cakefluencer) Edit: the color sections were also off

Nowadays i work for a more uptight company, so no fun cookie stuff anymore. But i will have my last day next week, so i will bring cake on friday. I will attempt to make mango cheesecake because i've always wanted to try that. And also some vegan cake with nuts or something.

I will add some pictures later if i don't forget and also english is obviously my second language.

Edit: added pictures

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 6 hours ago

Whoa, so you printed out the chocolate badges with a 3D printer? Or did you make some sort of special mold? Those are super cool!

Also, I like your rainbow cake. Rainbow cakes always make me think of good times in early summer, when everything is blooming and warm :)

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Those are great stories! And yes we'd love to see cake porn 😍

[–] slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 7 hours ago

I love the badge and circuit board they're so clever and personal!! I'd be so happy if someone did that to me. It's a really thoughtful idea. The cherry cheesecake is 😍😍😍😍😍

[–] evelynclare@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 19 hours ago

I like grinding my own flour then using it to make bread! I lt makes my house smell so good.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I'm making these cookies they're like millies cookies. They always turn out great and everyone loves them!

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Those sound delicious! πŸ˜ƒ

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 15 hours ago

They are! And dead easy which is always good

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Either cake, or mini baguettes and bread rolls. For the mini baguettes I'll bake like 2 of them until they're almost too crunchy, and then eat both while they're still piping hot! Ugh now I'm craving some so bad LMAO 😭

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 4 points 15 hours ago

I've never got the hang of bread so I'm jealous