4 eggs 295 ml vegetable oil 400 g white sugar 10 ml vanilla extract 250 g all-purpose flour 9 g baking soda 9 g baking powder 3 g salt 5 g ground cinnamon 330 g grated carrots 120... Cookies will be soft. Cool slightly on cookie sheets; transfer to wire racks to cool completely. changes I made - I also added around 100g of dried cranberries. I found them a bit flat though :(

Tomorrow is National Boss's Day. I'm in a battle of wills with my boss because he won't tell me when his birthday is. I used surreptitious means (ie: asking our departmental admin) to discover the date...off to decorate. Hence, the ghetto appearance. Decoration is not my forte. However, I think it's at least clear that they're carrot cupcakes. Hopefully my boss and coworkers will enjoy them tomorrow

From the top: Gingerbread cake, pumpkin pie, pumpkin pie, and chocolate mousse pie. This one and the chocolate pie went over the bf's house. This one stays here! Gingerbread cake , which is a recipe I got here earlier in the week, iirc. The other two will come in a couple hours!

Recipe

I've come across various fall recipe favorites of mine that I haven't shared with you guys yet! It's now mid September already, so I'll start getting to that. Here's one that tops my list. Pumpkin Whoopie... although the cake to filling ratio might be a little off (unless of course I piped the filling inside instead of using it as a frosting.. hmm..) Or I could just leave it alone and eat them as-is!

I've been a member for a few months now, usually awe-inspired by the amazing creations I see here. It's definitely motivated me to bake more. I am just a mom, cooking either family recipes or searching...the weird white cake. :/ I'm just waiting to hear what my son wants for his 10th in January. I'll have a 2 month old by then, so that'll make things interesting! If anyone wants any recipes, just ask

Flower Cupcakes (Aka "Look out, he's got fondant, and he's not afraid to use it! ) This was a recipe of firsts for me; first time I've made cupcakes (well, since I was about knee-high to...until large enough to form centre of flowers. Spread cakes with frosting. Decorate with petals and centres. Source: The Australian Women's Weekly. 'Cupcakes'. ACP Books. Sydney: 2006.

Last week I was stressed, so I baked. (Baking is the answer to many of life's problems for me! :) I made chocolate cupcakes and carrot cupcakes for the people at work, chocolate chip biscuits for my family...The Chewy , the Jammy Dodgers are courtesy of afeitar 's post here , and the pita bread recipe I found here (and highly recommend).

Dry 4C Flour 4tsp Baking powder 1C Caster Sugar 2tsp Ground cloves 3tsp Cinnamon Wet 250gm butter, melted 1C milk 1/2C strong coffee 3 eggs 1tsp vanilla extract zest of a lemon Toss dry...done. Ice with a raspberry fluff butter cream made from 250gm of softened butter, pink food colour, raspberry extract, 3Tbls hot water and enough Icing sugar to get a good spreading consistency

My first time baking madeleines! Spiced with cardamom and nutmeg, and some dipped in chocolate. They stuck to the pan a little (so they had some scars upon de-molding) but they were delicious!! booo they didn't stay together...