Potato Chip Cookies

These are potato chip cookies. My mom just tried making them, so it's not my recipe to share. They're okay, but I'm not so sure what the selling point would be - the crunch?

Fondue

We used cheddar, bleu and comté. First, we melted half a stick of butter, added the cheeses and two cloves of garlic, splashed some zinfandel in, stirring the whole time... et fini. We dipped pieces of baguette and ham.

Seeing Red

I think there have been too many strawberry desserts lately:

I made the strawberry hypocrite pie, tweaking this recipe. For the strawberry jam cake, I mostly followed this recipe. As for the cupcakes, they're actually store-bought and I just added buttercream frosting.

Cake Dilemma

Today is my daughter's birthday, but between all the handmade gifts and other details, I was so exhausted and was not able to bake her a cake. My husband got one from a bakeshop and I just personalized it with an M and a fondant strawberry (will edit this later to add a picture). She asked for a birthday cake, but Mark got a mango one. I think I'll bake her a cake tomorrow or on Friday, a proper strawberry one. :)

Mark's Birthay Cake

My husband recently celebrated his birthday and I decided to bake a cake instead of buying one. Since it's my first time making a birthday cake from scratch, I opted not to be too adventurous and just chose a simple white cake recipe. I wanted to do a fondant, but chose the uncooked recipe and that flopped. I should have paid attention when it said "for candy" (somebody was able to use it for cake though, accdg to the reviews). I should have just gone with the traditional cooked with gelatin version. Anyway, I was still able to produce an edible and "charming" cake. Here it is:

Vanilla Cake with Orange Vanilla Frosting

This is the first cake I made after a long baking hiatus. I followed this simple vanilla cake recipe. For the frosting, I mostly followed this recipe, but added a bit of orange extract instead of doing the replacements indicated. It was a success although it didn't look very pretty. It was also a dense type of cake, in case you want to go for fluffiness.

Update on My Kitchen

Long time no post... I have actually been busy in the kitchen. Now that we've moved back in with my parents, I hardly do any cooking at all. That's why I've mostly been focusing on baking. I know I'd cooked  a few things in the old apartment that I didn't blog about here. However, I did blog about them over at Spinning Lovely Days, so go see:

Blueberry pancakes and Spanish tortilla

Cabbage quiche

Ratatouille

Now for the baking I've been doing:

Bread

Apple pie

Mini banana muffins

Banana cream pie