Holiday Baking 2.0
Dec. 14th, 2018 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerMy holiday baking plans have hit a setback: I don’t have the right size pan to make a buche de Noel. However, I strongly suspect that my parents do, and if I make it at my parents’ house then the resulting cake can crown Christmas dinner with my brother and his girlfriend… Or else it will fail spectacularly and I will be forced to make brownies, which I believe everyone will recognize as an acceptable plan B.
In the meantime, I’ve baked a batch of snickerdoodles (are snickerdoodles a holiday cookie? Possibly an honorary variety? I feel anything with that much cinnamon has holiday affinities) and I am now planning a Mount Vernon gingerbread, which is gingerbread as a soft and delicious cake, possibly with lemon sauce? or hot rum sauce? or maybe caramel-pear? The cookbooks offer many possibilities and they all sound delicious.
I may be forced to make multiple batches of gingerbread. There is clearly no other solution.
But first I need to make gluten-free brownies for the library Christmas party. Onwards and upwards!
In the meantime, I’ve baked a batch of snickerdoodles (are snickerdoodles a holiday cookie? Possibly an honorary variety? I feel anything with that much cinnamon has holiday affinities) and I am now planning a Mount Vernon gingerbread, which is gingerbread as a soft and delicious cake, possibly with lemon sauce? or hot rum sauce? or maybe caramel-pear? The cookbooks offer many possibilities and they all sound delicious.
I may be forced to make multiple batches of gingerbread. There is clearly no other solution.
But first I need to make gluten-free brownies for the library Christmas party. Onwards and upwards!
