dessert dump

Trial and mostly error over here. Most of the time it's decently low stakes as I'm the only one eating my mistakes. Most of the time.

This one didn't land. A tribute to our roadtrip down New Mexico for Philly. Maybe it should've been square. If I told you it's supposed to be pueblos, would that make more sense?

I want to start calling this a signature cake though: peanut butter pretzel cake.

vanilla cake

milk jam filling (that has a pretzel-y taste)

peanut butter cinnamon buttercream

pretzels

The urgency of some withering apples lead to this apple traybake that Jenn raved about. Not a great recipe to cut in half apparently because it ended up being incredibly uneven when I tried to layer the top half over the apple slices. Or I could've been more careful about which pan I baked it in. Anyways, it was deliciously fall. Like coffee cake vibes but bread-ier.

Topped with another experiment - fig custard. That ended up runnier than expected but bursting with fig.

 

Nothing wrong with these cookies except that they were underbaked in the first pass so I basically brought Nancy and Johannes some mush and baked them a bit longer when I got home.

Chocolate cherry chunk miso cookies, I love you.

Another "signature cake" in the making. Meaning, it's definitely going to be made again with modifications but version one of cake fixings made for a perfectly well balanced breakfast bowl.

Coconut whipped cream.

Toasted rice pastry cream.

Toasted rice and sesame cake crumbs.

Fresh mango.

Stuffed into a Japanese cotton cake for an Asian-y mango sticky rice-y take on strawberry short cake.

By the way, the fragrance of toasted sweet wild rice with a couple makrut leaves rivals that of baking bread.

By the way, is a bag of plantain chips with a bowl of chimichurri dip an appropriate lunch?