Finishing up a batch of the carrot cake cookies from Christina Tosi’s All About Cookies baking book. Easy enough to make. They are for work’s Souper Bowl scholarship fundraiser on Friday. Staff contribute homemade soups, rolls, crackers, desserts, etc. in CrockPots (Instant Pot in my case on the slow cook feature) and for $5 you can have lunch. Proceeds go to graduating seniors who may not have the very best grades but who are deserving and who have need of a scholarship. The soup I’m making is Ina Garten’s Chicken Pot Pie soup with Puff Pastry Croutons.
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Milestone Birthday Cake-a-thon!
I’m baking cake for ~55 people for an early Saturday afternoon party being thrown for a friend’s mother’s 80th. I offered to churn out bundts for all, and then offered to also bake a more traditional layer cake for the candles-and-singing.
The Kentucky butter cake holds up/improves with time, so I’m baking three of them today in my 12-c Anniversary pan. I’ll glaze them before serving.
Tomorrow, two sour cream chocolate bundts in my Brilliance pan.
Friday evening, the chocolate layer cake with milk chocolate ganache.
Saturday 1 pm: party time!
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That’s going to be an amazing feast! And the KY butter cake is gorgeous!
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What a lovely effort
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What an awesome event!! And your soup and cookies sound delicious!
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Your best thing - a giant baking project! And no blueberries to lose track of! 
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I do, because I got in the habit for chawanmushi.
But my mom made caramel custard pretty much weekly when I was growing up (and without measuring anything) and she didn’t strain anything. Can’t say we could tell the difference.
If you’re noticing big chalaza, do it, otherwise live dangerously!
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I use only cake goop (nancy birtwhistle’s version) and don’t have any sticking issues with bundts or anything else.
The chalaza straining is force of habit. I think I’ll try it once without straining as I now have an excuse, “Saregama made me do it!” 
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A fresh thread for your Not Baked goodies:
Immersion blender?
Do a tiny one – 1 egg
At the price and scarcity of eggs, we can’t afford any wastage!
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Bubbles?
I’m careful to keep the head of the blender under the liquid and not overblend. If any bubbles, I just skim.
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@Saregama and @Nannybakes thanks for the suggestions.
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We do them throughout the year. Last year or maybe the year before we did a Breakfast at Tiffany’s breakfast brunch fundraiser. Also a Pretty in Pink one maybe for Valentine’s? There are bake sales occasionally. The Souper Bowl is the biggest fundraiser though. I always participate because duh I like to cook and bake. haha
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Fun to have a cause – and a reason to cook more than one can eat oneself!
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What is her version? I did equal parts flour, avocado oil, Spectrum shortening.
wow, i had totally forgotten about that. what a TRIP that was.
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this is such a nice idea.
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