What are you baking? Nov 2025

that works! I am sure it will be appreciated

I’ve been out of town visiting my mother for her birthday, a visit that was busier than usual. However I did want to bake something for her (it is very hard for her to cook or bake now due to severe vision loss) and a friend I was seeing, so made Dorie Greenspan’s Blondie recipe reduced to fit an 8x8 pan. I used chocolate chips, some butterscotch chips, and coconut. I should have checked all of her ingredients first: the brown sugar was so hard it was a solid in the bag, and took me about 20 minutes to hack out enough to soften in the microwave. In any case, a very reliable recipe!

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Jalapeño cheddar biscuits based on a recipe in ATK Savory Baking. I made half a recipe and rolled them too thin, but they puffed up nicely. I used the trimmed scraps as croutons in my tomato soup.

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Found some almond paste that needed to be used, so I made panettone scones https://www.thevanillabeanblog.com/panettone-scones/

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Beautiful - I love these! I want these! Do I need that book???

And this part is brilliant. Making notes…

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Wow!

Gorgeous! How did you like them?

I have it from the library and this is the first recipe I’ve tried, so we’ll see! They were really good though, and biscuits/scones are not something I make or eat a lot.

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Here in MN the leftover candy gets frozen in a zip bag. Quality stays good for over a year.

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If I had room in my freezer I would do that!

These were unsurprisingly good! I soaked the fruit in dark rum and orange curaçao but I don’t think much of the flavor came through against the almond paste in the scone.

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