The latest bake … did not grab pictures of everything but most of the recipes are linked below.
M&M cookies and white chocolate macadamia cookies
Ginger cookies with pumpkin spice kiss candies
Vanilla cupcakes stuffed with Raffaello candy, vanilla frosting
Banana-oat cupcakes stuffed with Smil, frosted with caramel Swiss meringue buttercream
Brown sugar cupcakes injected with maple syrup, maple Swiss buttercream and candied bacon
Crack pie with M&Ms
I did a lot of baking and think there was a little something for everyone.
The whole bake
Tricky transport of baked goods
Recipes in the links.
cookies and cream cupcakes
Matcha green tea cupcakes with raspberry frosting
Matcha green tea cupcakes with raspberry frosting
Raffaello-filled vanilla cupcakes with vanilla-coconut frosting
Raffaello cupcakes
Carrot pineapple spice cupcakes with vanilla + Heath bar frosting
Guinness cupcakes with Bailey’s frosting
Guinness cupcakes with Bailey’s frosting
Maltesers chocolate malt cupcakes with chocolate frosting
Maltesers cupcakes
Brown sugar maple cupcakes with maple frosting and candied bacon
Brown sugar cupcakes with maple frosting and candied bacon
Shortbread with chocolate sprinkles
intact rounds of shortbread with chocolate sprinkles
shortbread with chocolate sprinkles – inside-out
White chocolate macadamia nut cookies
white chocolate macadamia and M&M cookies
Crack pie – recipe coming soon
How much crack is in that crack pie?
Gooey insides of crack pie
A pile of ANZAC biscuits. Eat your heart out, Aussies and Kiwis!
M&M cookies – always a favorite
Coconut caramel macchiato bars
Gone in a flash! Coconut caramel macchiato bars
Chocolate cookies filled with Smil (Rolo) candy
Chocolate mint cookies
chocolate cookies with mint chips; chocolate cookies filled with Smil candy
Gluten-free, paleo brownies
Gluten-free coconut chocolate bites
Peanut butter bars – recipe coming soon
Peanut butter bars with peanut butter and chocolate chips
It’s baking experimentation time!
I have a recipe for pumpkin cupcakes but… I had a butternut squash sitting here for a while that I was going to use for some savory meal that I never got around to cooking. Having substituted butternut squash in other pumpkin recipes (soup and pie), I figured a cupcake or muffin could not be too challenging a substitution.
I baked the squash, scooped out the baked “innards” and will now puree. After that I will mix it all up into a spicy cake batter and put that on top of a pepparkakor crust in cupcake papers. And, to be a whole lot like the maven of Bake It in A Cupcake, I will pop a Rolo candy (or actually in this case another substitution – these are turning into an imitation/substitution fiesta – a Norwegian copy of said caramel-filled chocolate candy, Smil) in the batter. And BAKE!
I have not quite decided on how to frost these little monsters, but we’ll see how the cupcakes turn out before plotting the finale.
In much the same way as people’s eyes are often bigger than their stomachs, my baking ambitions often far outstrip my capacity to deliver.
That said, my current ambitions for the big intro bake of autumn include (potentially):
Shortbread
Carrot-sandwich cookies
Anzac biscuits
Dark chocolate hazelnut mini tarts
Cranberry-pistachio biscotti
Tart cherry, blueberry and toasted pine nut biscotti
Oreo-stuffed chocolate chip cookies
Smil-filled chocolate cookies
Samoa cookies
Nanaimo bars
Mini cheesecakes with Oreo crust
Oatmeal lemon cream bars*
Caramel apple crumble bars*
Kahlua coffee cupcakes*
Malt chocolate cupcakes*
Brown sugar cupcakes with maple frosting and candied bacon*
Carrot pineapple spice cupcakes*
* means this will be a new/experimental recipe for me
I might also make the tired “normal” cookies, such as M&M cookies and white chocolate macadamia cookies. Perhaps something with peanut butter because I seem to have a lot of peanut butter on hand right now … but want to do something different than just standard peanut butter cookies. I will think about it.