Giant Morning Glory muffins for the breakfast picnic today, built to be shared.
Probably my favorite muffin ever, I’d make them more often if the ingredient list wasn’t so long.
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Ginger molasses cookies from A good bake by Melissa Funk Weller. These are super easy and fantastic.
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Chocolate Guinness cake from Nigella. So not a mid-July cake for me, but it was my niece’s birthday and it is her favourite. The rest of us really like it too. https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chocolate-guinness-cake
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Pita bread. Quick and easy and so much better than store bought. https://alexandracooks.com/2020/06/25/easy-homemade-pita-bread-recipe/
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Looks luscious. Is that icing with the cake recipe?
I’ve never tried making pita; I like her blog a lot. Any tips?
Yes it’s a not too sweet cream cheese icing. I have been making this cake for decades and just noticed that it says to whip a bit of cream and fold it in, but I have always just added a bit of whipping cream to the bowl.
I think it’s pretty foolproof. I heated a cast iron pizza pan in the oven and baked 2 at a time. This dough was mixed and rolled by a 12-year old and they all puffed nicely.
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I love that pita recipe @pavlova! @aubergine I make it on a baking steel. LOVE.
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I made it on a pizza stone in my toaster oven!
Only caution is how thin you roll the dough - if you make skinny pita (Lebanese style?) they can dry out (but you can wrap them in a towel immediately to prevent that somewhat).
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I was surprised and not in a good way to see that the blogger states that whole wheat flour isn’t healthier than white flour.
I don’t know if she’s correct about nutrients, but it’s indisputable that whole wheat flour has much more fiber than white flour. It’s also indisputable that most Americans are lacking fiber in their diets.
Another batch of honey butter rolls because it’s all this one woman ever wants me to make for her. It kind of sucks that I charged her too little initially for them because she’s my mom’s friend and also I was afraid of charging too much due to how cheap the crappy bread sold here is, so I don’t make a profit selling these to her because I can’t up the price now.
And also made a batch of Stella Parks’ wonderful brown butter ricotta cookies because they are always popular with anyone who tries them.
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Hmm… I am sure that the price of your ingredients are going up with inflation: maybe you can use that to bump it up a bit?
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King Arthur bacon-cheddar-chive scones.
I made these cream scones once three or four years ago, and found them so decadently good, I’ve been afraid make them again since – they’re real calorie bombs. Today’s bake did not disappoint.
I made a half batch for four decent-sized scones – two I baked today and two I put wet into the freezer for tomorrow. They came out rich and tender, as expected. For the sake of my health I’ll probably keep a similar, buttermilk-based, bacon-cheddar-chive biscuit recipe as my go-to, but the cream scone is nice for an occasional treat.
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Another slab pie for an event for Mom: this one I called “apricot surprise slab pie.”
The surprise was a handful of blackberries 
I used the recipe and general method from Smitten Kitchen. I elected to use a cup of sugar with the 6 cups of fruit, and the resulting pie was resolutely not too sweet. I zested a lemon into the filling and juiced half of it for good measure. The filling was less wet than the sour cherry version, which was a relief.
Man, is it good.
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Looks and sounds like it’s amazing!
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The other day I had to bake a bunch of oatmeal cookies with butterscotch and dark chocolate chips for a group. It didn’t heat the kitchen up too badly. The recipe was from my elementary school days and the chips are my adaptation.
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Beautiful! I love apricot pie. Have been making the recipe from Maida Heatter for years.
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Another choc roll cake to test on an endless quest to replicate one from childhood. This one puffier and less sweet than others I’ve tried. Was nice and flexible and rolled nicely. The ganache didn’t stick to the cake very well either it was a bit too thick or because I used cocoa to roll the cake.
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Has anyone dealt with a KA attachment not spinning properly? If I turn the mixer on it spins fine, but once I have an attachment on it spins but snags at one point and makes a terrible noise. So far I’m finding results that are either about bowl adjustments (which is not the problem) or no spinning at all.
But actually I just tried attaching the paddle without the bowl and it seems ok, so maybe it is a bowl problem.
