Butter Baking

Butter Baking

A Blog of Baked Goods

Monthly Archives: June 2011

White Chocolate Chip and Macadamia Blondies

Any special (sometimes even not that special) occasion is an excuse for me to bake. This week it is my manager’s birthday and she requested white choc chip and macadamia nut cookies. So I decided to take it a little further (as I’m always taking cookies in to work, something different, you know?) and make her my blondies instead. This is one of my favourite recipes. All the butter and … Continue reading →

Cocoa Fudge Cookies

I weighed myself recently and discovered that the kilos have been creeping up. All the baked goods were to blame for sure. So when I saw this recipe on Orangette, I got excited. It only had four (!!!) tablespoons of butter and included plain yogurt – how healthy! And the cookies looked delicious. I decided that I had to bake these, and went in search for the original Alice Medrich … Continue reading →

Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate chip cookies are my favourite food. Raw, baked, hot, cold; I don’t care, I love them. The perennial question: which is the best recipe for chocolate chip cookies? I have tried many. All the common ones. The New York Times recipe is my favourite, but its a complex cookie that takes some time (due to the 36 hours chilling). So I am constantly on the lookout for a second … Continue reading →

Spiced White Chocolate Chip Cookies

My stomach aches. From eating undercooked cookies. I have finally finished my semester of uni and my exams! Therefore, today I am free (until 4pm when I have to go to work)!!! So I baked. I wanted to try out a new recipe, which was originally from Two Peas & Their Pod, and called ‘Soft Gingersnap Cookies with White Chocolate Chunks’. I played around with the recipe and made a … Continue reading →

Vegan, Gluten-Free Banana Chocolate Chip Bread

I have a criminology exam tomorrow and my favourite pastime has become procrastination. I take days off work, don’t make any plans with friends and tell my boyfriend I’m unavailable, all so that I can stay home and study. And stay home I do, but I come up with any excuse not to study. Having a shower, watching Ellen, walking or playing with the puppy and baking are common ones. … Continue reading →

Vegan, Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Experiment

A vegan friend from work, knowing that I love to bake, brought me in Erin McKenna’s BabyCakes NYC cookbook to show me a different perspective on ingredients. It was certainly a different perspective. I was looking through the book, scanning all the looong ingredient lists including Xanthan Gum, Whole Spelt Flour, Evaporated Cane Juice (or Panella in Australia) and Coconut Oil and thought ‘what the hell is all of this?’. I … Continue reading →

Devil’s Food Cake

On Tuesday it was my brother’s 12th birthday. I wanted to make him something special to celebrate the milestone, and at the same time use the opportunity to try out a new recipe. I don’t really love cake. I mean, why have crumbly cake when you can have silky lemon tart or molten chocolate fondants? But I was inspired by the four-layer Devil’s Food Cake recipe in Jill O’Connor’s Sticky, Chewy, … Continue reading →

A Blog of Baked Goods

This is me. Here I am in New York’s East Village, scoffing down a vanilla cupcake with chocolate frosting from the famous Magnolia Bakery. I love baking and eating all forms of baked goods. I would like to one day become a baker. So I started a blog. Basically, I have a love for dough and anything pastry-like, and my boyfriend finds it hilarious; laughing that I would survive off … Continue reading →