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USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?

jen said:
Just reading this now. Thanks for the kind words about the cookies. Yes, I still bake them (although fewer). Here's a rundown of the past 2 years.

2020 - 1135 cookies


2021 - 1634 cookies
Cranberry Coconut Macaroons (did cranberry this time, and they were still very good)
Raspberry rugelach
Dark Chocolate Buttercrunch
Gingerbread Snickerdoodles
Cherry Almond cookies (new - just OK)
Grasshoppers
Bailey's Hot Cocoa Cookies (same old Hot Cocoa, but with Bailey's chips) and Peppermint Hot Cocoa
Peanut Butter Maple
Peppermint Bark
Pistachio Spritz Pinwheels
Toffee Snowballs
Brandy Biscuits (new - not that great)
Cranberry Pie Cookies
Zimsterne
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Good to see you are still about! I was thinking of you as I baked this yr. I made a bunch of dough- baked ~2500 cookies and then we had horrific #s and the world shut down. Ended up only giving away about a 10th of them. THe live in human vacuum cleaner (aka lil, not so lil) ate almost all the rest without baking a sweat.
 
It’s Free Cone Day at DQ today.

I was going to place this in the Fitness thread, but that seemed a little cruel.
 
Making a carrot cake cheesecake hybrid for Easter. I made the recipe earlier today as a rev 2 or 3 or something like that to a previous recipe I've been working on for a while. This time I used 100% browned butter instead of oil.

And good god. The carrot cake batter may be one of the best things I've ever put in my mouth.


edit: oh and every recipe I saw for a carrot cake cheesecake was some weird swirled mess that never looked good. Very "NAILED IT" energy even on the blogs. So instead I went with a cheesecake as a center layer almost as a replacement for the layer of cream cheese frosting. Much better plan. Never made cheesecake before as far as I can remember. But pretty good results with a basic recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction. But the carrot cake recipe is 95% mines.

edit 2: the weird thing was, and this sounds absolutely batshit crazy, but this came to me in a dream the night before my entire family came down with some illness. My mom was planning on bringing dessert but now that everyone is sick, I can make it! Anyways, the dream was of a carrot cake flavored cheesecake in the shape of a carrot. Instead of the shape and being 100% cheesecake, I went with the hybrid approach. Hard to get real carrot cake flavors in a cheesecake.
 
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Tomorrow's baking efforts:

Everything muffins. Going to put some of the seasoning IN the muffin for extra flavor, then put some on top before baking.

Double chocolate crunchy peanut butter bread. I haven't had it in awhile.

I'm struggling to come up with new and interesting ideas.
 
Holy moly. So I trimmed the cake a bit so the cheesecake would have a flat surface. That's the best carrot cake I've ever eaten. Gotta take down the notes.
 
Made the Double Chocolate Crunchy Peanut Butter bread on Thursday. I know it was good because I had 4 different drag performers and everyone at my table keep coming back for more.
 
I've been working on my recipe for a couple years now. I would love to get up to BC some day to compare. I'm sure theirs are absolutely killer.
 
I attempted to make a coffee and chocolate bread and all I could detect was the chocolate.

I want to try again, this time maybe adding half and half using some instant coffee as part of the baking mix.
 
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