Muffin explosion!

I have to work an overnight shift at work, so I thought muffins would make the hard labor less agonizing. That and lots of coffee. Lootss of coffee. I decided to make a couple recipes I found at Baking Bites: Espresso Spice Pumpkin Muffins and Browned Butter Brown Sugar Muffins.

Pumpkin Spice Scones

I told you I was going to make more scones. Also, this brief sting of sub triple digit heat has made it seem like fall is here, and thus pumpkin is going to start making its way into everything I bake. Mmmm pumpkin. When organizing my recipes yesterday I almost made a tab just for pumpkin.

Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies

I know what you're thinking: "You already created the perfect chocolate chip cookie Tanner, why would you bother with a new recipe." Well, you see, curious blog reader, I've been intrigued with salt lately, as it is all the rage with the foodie types...

Basic Brownies

Basic brownies? How boring. But, after the anything-but-boring bacon brownies, I wanted to get a better understanding of some brownie basics, so here they are...

Orange Poppy Seed Scones

I've always enjoyed me some scones, but felt they were more effort than they were worth to make myself. And thus I suffered through years of sugar saturated coffee shop scones. Damn you Starbucks, damn you. But lo, behold these awesome scones made with these two hands of mine. Messy? yes. Hard? no...

Lemon Olive Oil Cookies

This is a quick post. These cookies weren't very complicated and came together pretty easily. I wanted to see how olive oil played in cookies. From what my brief research session showed, olive oil leaves the cookies a little crusty and cakey. These cookies supported that bit of info to a T. They tasted much like the olive oil bundt cakes I baked a few weeks ago and were the cakiest cookies I've ever made. They might be for some people, but not for me...

Salted Caramel Squares

Warning: Do not attempt at home. This recipe should only be attempted by those with professional grade kitchens.

So, yeah, these were probably my biggest failure to date. Having been burned by hot sugar before, I was pretty gunshy about this one, which is why I think this failure was due to undercooking...