chocolate cupcakes with raspberry buttercream

Make chocolate cupcakes fresher by folding in some homemade jam to the frosting. Delicious and colorful!

soy buttermilk pie

Have you heard of buttermilk pie? Apparently it's a thing. I've recently discovered that home-made pie crust is super easy to make--meaning I've been on a pretty big pie kick. The only thing is that when you make pie crusts, you always make two--and I'm not a double crust pie kind of girl. So I inevitably have an extra pie crust in the fridge for a week or two, and I'm left thinking of what to do with it before it gets past its prime.

Well, last week I had a lecture in nutrition class about complex carbs, aka sugar. An hour and a half of talking about sugar. Which naturally made me want to immediately go home a bake something. Luckily I had a pie crust in the fridge. Unluckily I didn't have much to fill it with. No nuts, no fruit, no nothing. So I browsed my way through foodgawker until I found what is apparently a very popular pie--buttermilk. The name is a little misleading though, because there's more sugar than anything else. It was delicious, but it was definitely just a sugar pie. Which, I suppose, is actually pretty appropriate given my motivation to make it in the first place. Hm.

Recipe here. Was it man-pleasin'?? I'll say yes, only because who wouldn't like a piece of pie that someone else made for them?

Also, I used soy milk (with a splash of vinegar...impromtu buttermilk)

birthday cake, november

I am the worst.

Every couple weeks I decide that I'm going to make a more concerted effort to maintain my blog, and every time those couple weeks pass and I somehow find that I have left this little corner untouched for months on end.

Blog resolutions are even worse than New Years resolutions. And I don't even make New Years resolutions because I know I won't keep them, try as I might.

BUT, this year I made a list of goals. Not resolutions, just things I hope to have completed by the years end. Unsurprisingly, most of my goals were baking certain things.

So here's to bringing you back to life, dear blog...cause if nothing else, I like to remember what I bake. And accomplish. You're like my diary, with a super specific focus. It's not that slanted though, since most of my thoughts are consumed by baked goods. And that my accomplishments are defined by the things I bake. Sad, but true.