Butter Baking

Butter Baking

A Blog of Baked Goods

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Nutella and Peanut Butter Oat Bars

I have been baking at work for the last few weeks. Coming in early and baking and icing the cupcakes. It has been so much fun! Baking is what I love to do and working in the kitchen side of things at work just feels right. The early starts are hard to get used to but they leave me with most of the afternoon and evening off, which I love. … Continue reading →

Nutella Cookie Bars

Nutella and I are old friends. We go way back. For as long as I can remember, there has been a jar of Nutella in the pantry at my house. My family has long shared germs as we pass the Nutella jar around and we each eat it with a spoon with the milk bottle nearby. When I was young, my mum would put those little individual packets of Nutella … Continue reading →

Cookies and Cream Bars

Oreos have always been really popular in my household. Cookies are a definite hit too. And combining the two together here quickly resulted in lots of crumbs and no cookies. Delicious. So I thought I’d take some vanilla cookie dough and layer it up with Oreos. Yeah. The thing about bars, is that because they are so big (compared to a cookie), they tend to be much chewier and gooeyer, … Continue reading →

Polish Apple Pie Bars (Szarlotka)

So this is kind of a pie. And its kind of a crumble. Its also kind of bars. Szarlotka is Polish for apple pie. But this particular kind of Polish szarlotka is often made in a large square or rectangular tin and then cut into bars. The base is kind of like cake, something called biszkopt. Then there is a layer of deliciously soft apples (I tried to make extra … Continue reading →

Pecan Pie Bars

A large amount of my baking occurs in the evenings. My favourite time to bake is actually on a rainy day – when it is cold and wet and grey outside there is nothing more I want to do than spend the day in the kitchen and bake a pie. Unfortunately for me, you can’t have everything you want in life and a free day off is a rarity. So … Continue reading →