Anybody baking today?

I made a batch of small rum cakes to send out..they are much like a pound cake in that you mix the butter with the flour/sugar mixture until it is grainy then beat in the eggs and the milk/rum. But the best part of all is the butter and rum syrup you soak them in for 24 hours after you get them out of the oven!

okay dear Fraust, surely an Ulster Fry is more than just the two kinds of breads?
Do tell....

I would like to get half baked and just chill for a day. Is that wrong?

No, that is absolutely perfect.


and here's a bunny for good luck

Oh my gosh mew mew it's SO CRAZY that I would come upon this thread :00000 mew !!!

In October I had this super cute and fun idea to make some cat-head shaped cookies for my Meowfriends and call them Meow-Meow Cookies

One of the head Cat Admins said it's a lovely idea so I had a special kitty cookie-cutter mold ordered from Roo-Topia (Australia)

Here are the finished cookiesssssssss

https://imgur.com/a/JvXrqr7

They're just chocolate and peanut butter mew mew nothing too special, except for the fact they are made with so much meowlove !!!

Also the super weird thing about them is that I NEVER MADE COOKIES IN MY WHOLE LIFE and the day that I went to get ingredients, I stopped by the thrift store and FOUND HEART-SHAPED MEASURING SPOONS like WTF

The three Meowfriends™ I sent them off to told me that they taste very meowlicious :"33 The peanut butter one I think is meh, but the chocolate one is super great mew. I wanted to add frosting but I didn't think it would sit well sent in the post (which you're not supposed to do anyways)

I saved one Meow-Meow Cookie so it can be admeowired :"33

https://imgur.com/a/Sjb6JnR

Key Lime Sugar Cookies..

https://imgur.com/a/Au2Ezf5

Key lime sugar cookies sound awesome.

this morning was biscuits. The kind where you rub the butter into the flour/baking powder/salt and then add milk, and make sure the oven is good and hot before you pop them in so the baking powder can work its magic.

https://imgur.com/nvDV2n0

:woah: moving my mind into chocolate chip cookie makers mode..

Currently baking a three spice combo.
5lb hammer
Crumpets
Afterglow by Bellamy bros.

That's every day for me. A cup of gourmet coffee with organic half and half, and a bowl of gourmet weed. Then I hit the ground running.
I have tons of cookies to make. Love this thread.

My specialty is my gingerbread cut outs. I don't do men any more because I realized that it's a nod to eating children, so I make gingerbread stars and trees. I decorate them with organic orange peel that I candied myself in honey. The gingerbread recipe is one I developed over many years as an attempt to make a healthy cookie. It is sweetened with honey and molasses, no refined sugar. I use a mix of organic whole wheat and unbleached white fours and organic butter. I'm a freak. There are a few friends who have lined up for these cookies every year for decades. I started the idea in the 70's. The earliest cookies came out like dog biscuits because I kept rolling the dough in flour. They got too hard. Then I figured out to chill the dough and roll it between parchment papers. perfect. Took me all day yesterday to make those cookies.
I did all the doughs last Thursday.
I made the Mexican tea cakes Friday. Love those. I sweeten the dough with honey instead of sugar and it really helps them be moist. They are rolled in organic powdered sugar.
Today I'll do the pinwheels. I rolled out and layered the doughs yesterday. It's a vanilla cookie dough and a cocoa marzipan dough. It got rolled up and chilled last night. Today I'll slice and bake them. Then there's the rugalach. I made all the fillings last week. There are three. White chocolate with my organic orange peels, home made organic cranberry sauce, walnuts and a pinch of cardamom. Dark chocolate with roasted almonds and sour cherries I stored in honey in the freezer last July. Almond extract. The third one is dates and pecans with cinnamon and honey. The dough is organic cream cheese and butter with a bit of honey and vanilla. Can't wait to eat those.
Then I have to tackle the sugar cookies. That's a job, but it isn't Christmas without cut out sugar cookies with colored icing. These are right out of the 1950's. I make a buttercream icing instead of the royal icing most folks use on these cookies. The icing tastes good, doesn't just look pretty. Last year I used organic natural food coloring. eh. The colors were not great. I probably go buy some normal poisonous food coloring for this. Christmas is the only time I would use food coloring poison. lol.
Then there's the coconut macaroons, gluten free, drizzled with a good dark chocolate.
I have a gluten free daughter in law, so she gets two mini batches of cookies for herself. I made gluten free gingerbread for her, and she likes lemon sugar cookies.
whew. On Christmas Day, I bake a cherry ring that is mind boggling good. The day after Christmas I collapse. lol
I love all this baking, and I love hearing about other people's baking, but I won't be here much today because I have about ten hours of work ahead of me.
We should share recipes here.

Like I need another recipe. Oh man!!!