Butter Baking

Butter Baking

A Blog of Baked Goods

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Pumpkin streusel layered sheet cake | Butter Baking

Pumpkin Streusel Layered Sheet Cake with White Chocolate Drizzle

So I’m doing it all over again. I’m breaking the rules by baking with pumpkin after Thanksgiving. WAY after Thanksgiving. It’s summer here, so the whole thing is a bit redundant anyway. But you know what? This cake. Is SO. Ridiculously. Good. That it should be baked all year round. And I don’t even like cake. But this is worth breaking ALL the rules for. Promise. It all started with … Continue reading →

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Spiced Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Maple Glaze

Umm… Am I allowed to bake with pumpkin after Thanksgiving? I’m new to the pumpkin baking game. So is it like, socially acceptable? Because I’m totally doing it. Right now. I know that it’s not fall anymore in the States. I know that it is no longer pumpkin-baking season. I am well aware that Thanksgiving is over. But all of that is completely null and void anyway. Because here I am, in Australia, … Continue reading →

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Gingerbread Macarons with Eggnog Buttercream

Christmas is only a week away now! How crazy. Where did this year go?! It was winter all of about five minutes ago. It was cold and rainy and wet and miserable. Then before I knew it, it started getting warm. And the sun started rising earlier. And summer came along with a bang. The stores put up their Christmas decorations. And trees. And Santa popped up in all the … Continue reading →

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Homemade Peanut Butter

We are making peanut butter today! All by ourselves. And you need all of two things: 1) Peanuts 2) A food processor Easy! I made peanut butter for the first time in Berlin earlier this year when I had a baking day with Erin from Texanerin Baking. I was absolutely amazed as the food processor whizzed and whizzed and turned her peanuts into a spread. I couldn’t believe how easy … Continue reading →

Easy Nutella Brownie Oreo Cupcakes with Nutella Frosting

So let’s talk about culinary school. It’s pretty awesome. And I kind of love it. We have lots of different classes, each of which run for a term. There has been cakes, pastries, bread, basic cooking, restaurant classes, hot and cold desserts, yeast goods, petit fours and more. I absolutely loved hot and cold desserts, and pastries, and yeast goods. Basically I love the classes in which we make great … Continue reading →

Brownie Cupcakes with Chocolate Hazelnut Frosting

Cupcakes. I made these a couple of weeks ago. I was feeling like I hadn’t baked anything in ages. And when I did bake, it was a failure (like forgetting half the flour in the filling for a chocolate chip cookie pie. How does that even happen?).  Or it was something I had already made before and couldn’t really blog about again, like these cookies. So it was time to … Continue reading →

Nutella Chip Biscoff Blondies with Nutella Ganache Frosting

So. For a long time I was on the hunt for some sort, any sort, of Biscoff. I had heard so much about the cookies, about the spread, and about people flying with Delta Airlines just to eat some of this goodness. I knew there was Speculoos and Biscoff and Cookie Butter, and I just wanted any version of anything I could get my hands on. Getting my hands on … Continue reading →

Cookies and Cream Cake

I made a cake! Let’s have a party. I hardly ever make cake. Well, not traditional cake anyway. Brownies, blondies, cookies and pies are much more to my liking, so that’s what I end up baking most of the time. I am grateful for culinary school, in that I have to bake things that I would never make otherwise. Because I would never bake a pound cake, madeira cake, genoise … Continue reading →

Oreos

Oreos. Great with milk. Great in ice cream. Great by themselves. And now you can have homemade oreos. And you can put as much vanilla “creme” in the centres as you like! These actually taste like oreos. That’s the first thing everyone said when they tried them. The biscuits could be a little thicker. And a little denser maybe? But they do taste like oreos. These cookies are chocolatey and … Continue reading →

Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream

Continuing on with wanting to learn more about cupcakes for my new job, today I decided to make a simple vanilla cupcake. This is a denser cake, not as light and fluffy as I would expect a cupcake to be, but has a nice vanilla flavour. The chocolate buttercream really adds to the cupcake, as plain vanilla-flavoured cupcakes can easily be boring! VANILLA CUPCAKES WITH CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM Adapted from the … Continue reading →