Blizzard baking

Something about snow makes me want to bake a lot and, of course, eat a lot. My first project was this tasty ginger cupcake recipe from 101 cookbooks. Yes I know I promised not to wrote more tribute posts, but these were just such a hit! I added about 1/2 cup coconut to the batter and sprinkled more coconut on top. I made extra icing, too, because icing is delicious, but the amount in the recipe is plenty. I shared them with my neighbors on one of the worst days of the storm when we bonded over our cabin fever.

Next, during a fit of post snow pre test anxiety, I whipped up these remarkable peanut butter sandwich cookies from an old wapo christmas cookie food section special. I used fresh bananas rather than dried, which was a mistake. In fact, as much as I love peanut butter on bananas, I'd like to try this recipe with maybe a cinnamon cream cheese filling instead. I would recommend making the cookies smaller than you think you need- keep in mind you'll be eating 2 of them at once. I also tried dipping a few of the extra cookies in ganache, which was fabulous.


Finally (I told you I did a lot of baking!) I tried the joy of cooking oatmeal cookie recipe for my dodgeball team reunion (note: the linked recipe omitted the 1/2c walnuts, a touch I really liked). A little tacky to bring cookies to a restaurant, yes, bit whatever. They were appreciated and I'm posting them as per request of a friend. They are very oatmeally and kept their shape nicely during baking.

Happy baking!! And sorry no gluten free stuff here =(