Butter Baking

Butter Baking

A Blog of Baked Goods

Category Archives: Vegan

peanut butter

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 →

Black Bean Brownies

So I want to be a pastry chef, right? And I’m pretty sure I go to culinary school, where I study patisserie. And I go to classes, where I like, bake stuff. And last time I checked, I worked at a cupcake shop, where like five times a week, I bake stuff. And I think I have a blog, which I bake stuff for all the time. And I want … Continue reading →

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie

So this is me trying to be healthy. All the bread and petit fours I have been baking in my course, all the pretzel chocolate chip peanut butter truffle brownies I have been eating and all the procrastinating I have been doing has been making me feel a little heavy. So much so, that I was even inspired to go for a run recently. So instead of going on 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 →