it has been awhile...

So I have still been baking, I just haven't posted any of it. I think what I will do is post them all here rather than make individual posts. And this is solely because my chewy chocolate chip cookies are about to be done, and I ate too much batter so I am having a bit of a sugar crash.

In between that sentence and this sentence I have taken the cookies out and sampled the little baby cookie I made just for the purpose of taste testing. I must say they are really chewy. I think the melted butter (vegan) and the amount of sugar did their job.

So, I highly recommend going with any chocolate chip recipe that says "chewy".

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Now, what else have I been making? So most of it has been repeats. The french apple cake - came out great. I used a smaller pan, and I would actually recommend the wider pan. I liked the thinner slices. 

I also made a vanilla cake with butter cream. I now hate butter cream because I realize what goes into it. It is just butter and confectionery sugar. It is honestly rather gross. The cake part was actually great though.

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Quinn, my brother's girlfriend made a vanilla cake with cream cheese frosting and strawberries last weekend. It would have been lovely, if the strawberries were not accidentally sliced on a cutting board that had garlic on it. I think it is genetic, I really do not like garlic, just like my dad. So I tried the cake and I could not do it. The slight garlic nuance, which was not even that slight, was too much for me.

I made chocolate chip banana bread the other day and it was alright. I lost the recipe I loved :( I am still mourning that. So I need to locate that recipe online and save it here for reference.

Even though it is not a dessert, I made shakshuka this morning and I could not be more proud of myself! It is incredibly easy and so god damn good!

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