#seasonal baking

[punkbakerchristine]

holidays are really for baking.

halloween, you have things like devil’s food cake, red velvet cake, spice cakes, and pastries in the shape of ghosts, pumpkins, bats, cats, and tombstones. depending on where you are in the world, there are traditional goods like barmbrack in ireland and day of the dead loaf all over latin america.

thanksgiving, you have spice cakes, pumpkin pie, apple pie, bread, and the dinner.

christmas—oh, boy, christmas. gingerbread men and sugar cookies. lots of bread, like it’s surprising how much bread there is: in places like sweden, there’s a bread called kanellängd which is braided and cinnamon-y. in germany, you have stöllen. in italy, there’s panettone. in britain, christmas pudding and everything is infused with ginger, wine, or both—for boxing day, you have leftover meat pies. then you have hanukkah treats like latkes, chocolates, and sufganiyot. you have bananas and plantains with kwanzaa.

new year’s… got one word and that’s “champagne.”

valentine’s day, kind of gives you an excuse to make everything red and pink.

st. paddy’s day, gives you an excuse to spike everything with bailey’s. also, soda breads.

easter, everything is light, springy, and often nutty? like there’s lots of almonds and coconut involved. also, v cute color schemes.

memorial day, everything starts getting summery with fruit pies and tres leches cake.

4th of July… raspberry pie, cherry pie, and blueberry pie. lot of no bake stuff because the kitchen is hotter than holy fuck. also, star-shaped cookies if you’re daring.

depending on the year, something for the olympics, like my mount olympus pie.

then there’s kind of a lull with the dog days of summer—unless you’re willing to try your hand at fair food, i.e., funnel cake and pastrami sandwiches—until it all loops back around into the autumnal equinox and you start smelling cinnamon and anise again, and you get the itch to make some bread or a cake.

[steve-rogers-new-york]

Recipe Advent Calendar - Day 10

Happy Holidays!

To celebrate the season, I am doing 12-days of seasonal recipes from the 14th to the 25th December. These are recipes published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper during the period that Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes lived in Brooklyn in the early 20th century.

Moravian Christmas Cookies

1/2 cup butter or other shortening, melted 1 cup molasses, heated 1/2 cup brown sugar 3/4 teaspoon ginger 3/4 teaspoon cloves 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon allspice Dash of salt 3/4 teaspoon soda 3 3/4 cups sifted special cake flour Combine butter and molasses, add sugar, spices, salt and soda. Add flour. Let stand in cold place a week. Place a small amount of dough on a slightly floured board and roll paper-thin. Cut with fancy cookie cutters. Place on greased baking sheet and bake in moderate oven 365 degrees Fahrenheit six minutes. These cookies keep indefinitely in closed tins. Makes 200 cookies.

The recipe appeared in the Friday 19 December 1930 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

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[seasonalbakery]

Christmas Pinwheel Cookies

[yxvenom]

THANKSGIVING IS THIS THURSDAY!? WHAT WILL I BAKE?

If you are anything like me; a full-time college student, and a full-time intern, then you don't realize holidays are right around the corner. This holiday season you will be reunited with family, friends and loved ones, and what a good way to take a pause from assignments and work then to greet them with delicious seasonal cookies. With this Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe from Delish will blow your guest away just as it did to mine. 

Baking is my love language to my family and friends. Whenever there is a special event like birthdays and other small celebrations I like to bring cookies. Normally I switch up the flavors depending on the person's liking. I have backed sugar cookies, double chocolate chip cookies, and my favorite is this Red Velvet Crinkle Cookie recipe. I enjoy seeing my loved ones take their first bite of my cookies; seeing their eyes widen and huge smiles start to form. It’s like a reward. 

For these Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie you will need: 

2 1/4 c. all-purpose flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

1/2 tsp. kosher salt

1 c. (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened

3/4 c. packed brown sugar

1/2 c. granulated sugar

3/4 c. pumpkin purée

1 large egg

2 tsp. pure vanilla extract

2 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips

With these simple ingredients and a little love sprinkled into the baking process you will have your guest asking for these Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies every holiday season. To be around family and loved ones during the holidays is something special and we often take it for granted. We get stuck in our heads dealing with personal problems, stressing about our future and we don’t live in the present.

One thing I like to do when I am baking these cookies is really try and be present, to enjoy the baking process and have fun while doing it. I feel like the cookies do taste better when a little extra love is added to them. As I am rolling a ball of dough on my hands, I say thank you for each blessing that has presented it self this year. It makes the baking more intimate, personal, and it helps you focus on the present. 

I remember baking these cookies last year when we were all going through really tough times. Covid-19 took so much away from our lives in such a short amount of time. The isolation was something that I personally didn't think was going to affect me the way it did. Being indoors for two weeks straight without sunlight made me feel sick, although things were rough my body and mind needed fresh air and sunlight. I put my mask on and headed to the lobby of my building and stood outside for about five minutes. Everything looked abandoned, no cars passing by, no loud music playing from a neighbors window, sure silence. New York City, the city that never sleeps, had finally taken a nap. 

This is why I hold this recipe very dear to my heart. It's a reminder to enjoy life because it's a present, the moment we are living now will never come again. 

*Oven timer goes off*

The cookies are now ready, make sure to let them cool off before you enjoy a bite of the delicious Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie.

[bakedbeanchan]

I love the first season of atla

[esthers-wine]

There is magic in the night, when pumpkins glow by moonlight.

[reunitedinterlude]

dan: can you say anything and then say “gays,” as if that's a type of gay

[dreamingofnextseason]

[tea-with-mrs-mourning-dove]

[punkbakerchristine]

coffee cake ☕️🍰

no exaggeration: I feel like that one person on the titanic, when it’s going down, the one who pops open a bottle of scotch and kicks back a couple of hits before jumping into 30° ocean waters for two hours until the carpathia shows up because the life boats are bogged down.

[captainbucky-yt]

LUKE THOMPSON AND YERIN HA | Take the Lead, Shondaland [x]

[daily-deliciousness]

Sheet pan baked salmon and potatoes

[steve-rogers-new-york]

Recipe Advent Calendar - Day 11

Happy Holidays!

To celebrate the season, I am doing 12-days of seasonal recipes from the 14th to the 25th December. These are recipes published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper during the period that Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes lived in Brooklyn in the early 20th century.

Springerle

1 pound pulverized sugar 4 eggs 1 pound flour 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda Grated rind of 1 lemon Anise seed Beat the eggs and sugar together until feathery, which takes about on hour. Add bicarbonate of soda, then grated lemon rind and flour. Mix thoroughly and roll out until one-eighth inch in thickness. Flour springerle board or roller and press on dough. Remove carefully from forms and place on napkins powdered with flour. Put in cool place and let then dry overnight. In the morning, place in buttered tins, sprinkle with anise seed, and bake in a slow oven until very light tan.

The recipe appeared in the Friday 19 December 1930 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

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[seasonalbakery]

Woolworth's Cutout Sugar Cookies

[academic-vampire]

𝔠𝔬𝔷𝔶 𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔪𝔫 🍎🫖🕯️

[archivegeo]

drawing autumn snacks