Gingered Carrot Cookies

I altered this recipe quite a bit. I barely put in any ginger, used blueberry honey instead of raisins and extra coconut instead of pecans.

I think they came out pretty well... the honey caramelized while baking so there was a nice sugary crunch to the cookie while the carrot and coconut gave it some good texture.

Linzer Sables

A very simple almond cookie... roll it out, freeze it, cut out shapes, cut the middle out of half of them and bake. Fill with jam and make sandwich cookies... eh.

I don't know that anyone was super impressed.

Rick Katz's Brownies for Julia

These brownies have solidified my love of baking. I was a little scared of this recipe when I first read it. You have to melt the butter and chocolate and stir in sugar. Then you mix sugar and eggs and pour half of that mixture into the warm chocolate mixture. You can't stop mixing because the chocolate can cook the eggs. That seemed super scary to me so I avoided these for a while. It ended up being really easy.

After that you whip the balance of the sugar and eggs until it doubles in size and fold it into the mixture before adding the dry ingredients.

These brownies are amazing. So light and fluffy but fudgy at the same time. The people in my office were freaking out. They were the talk of the office (they actually were) and some very inappropriate food porn noises were heard while some people delighted in this afternoon snack.

This recipe will for sure be repeated in the very near future.

Chocolate Spice Quickies

I decided to leave the spice part out of these cookies. I'm getting to know my audience and my co-workers are not fans of the allspice, clove, nutmeg family. Actually... they seem to really dig the chocolate treats and tolerate the fruity kinds until more chocolate items are available. I may have made a mistake baking so much of the chocolately stuff first. Who is going to eat my cranberry upside down cake?

I thought these cookies were nice... not very flavorful but basically a plain chocolate flavored sugar cookie.

Honey Nut Brownies

Let's see if you've been paying attention...

Which ingredient listed in the title do you think I left out of this recipe?

So yeah, no nuts. I used peanut butter chips instead and everyone at the office thought they were yummy.

I decided I thought the honey flavor would be overpowering because you add a whole cup! I decided to use one of her tips and frost these brownies. I think it was a good addition.

Blueberry Brown Sugar Plain Cake

OK I admit it... I'm bad at keeping up on the blog. I love the baking and taking the pictures but when it comes to sitting down to share my baked good with the interweb I just don't want to.

So here I am... two weeks later and I have 6 recipes to share with you. Sorry all my loyal fans (hi Mom!)... I'll try to be better.

I had to whip egg whites again and this time I didn't screw the whole thing up. This cake was easy to make and looked like it tasted pretty good.

Jeremy had it the first day and said it tasted great (with of course his constant caveat that it would be better with blackberries).

I left it overnight wrapped and went to cut it in the morning to bring to work. It seemed to get a bit soggy so I decided not to bring it in. This is for sure an eat it the day you make it kind of thing.