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Tag Archives: Baking

All-Fruit Mincemeat

This recipe for homemade all-fruit mincemeat filling will make your kitchen smell absolutely sublime.

Posted byAly Writes15th Dec 202115th Dec 2021Posted inBaking, RecipesTags:Baker, Bakery Life, Baking, RecipesLeave a comment on All-Fruit Mincemeat

A Rise and A Fall

Three minutes can be an eternity. Forty-five breaths. One hundred and eighty seconds. Two hundred and ten heartbeats.

Posted byAly Writes13th Sep 202113th Sep 2021Posted inBaking, Flash Fiction, Humor, ProseTags:Baker, Baking, Flash, Funny, Murder, ProseLeave a comment on A Rise and A Fall

Baking Snobbery and Banana Oatmeal Muffins

So measure in cups, grams, or ounces, whatever you are comfortable with, and don’t let anyone’s snobbery stop you from baking your heart happy.

Posted byAly Writes5th Aug 20215th Aug 2021Posted inBaking, RecipesTags:Baker, Bakery Life, Baking, Brunch, Recipes2 Comments on Baking Snobbery and Banana Oatmeal Muffins

In Which Cake Becomes a Metaphor

A cake where the beauty is in the cake itself, exposed and unabashed, adorned by only the most carefully chosen elements that add to, rather than superseding, its flavour and appeal.

Posted byAly Writes1st Jun 202124th Jun 2021Posted inWriting TipsTags:Baker, Bakery Life, Baking, Flash, Prose, Writing TipsLeave a comment on In Which Cake Becomes a Metaphor

Perfect Buttery Shortbread

You enjoy your shortbread any way you like, ’cause life’s too short to make rules about cookies.

Posted byAly Writes8th Feb 20219th Feb 2021Posted inBaking, RecipesTags:Baker, Bakery Life, Baking, Favourite Things, RecipesLeave a comment on Perfect Buttery Shortbread

Millicent’s Lebkuchen

Perhaps knowing that someone you love has made them makes a cookie taste better than one you made yourself.

Posted byAly Writes12th Jan 202112th Jan 2021Posted inBaking, Recipes, UncategorizedTags:Baker, Bakery Life, Baking, Books, Favourite Things, RecipesLeave a comment on Millicent’s Lebkuchen

The Daily Whys

Why did I ever want to be a baker? I groan and curse the blaring 4:30 am alarm that cuts short my slumber.

Posted byAly Writes28th Dec 202028th Dec 2020Posted inBaking, Humor, ProseTags:Baker, Bakery Life, Baking, Funny, True StoryLeave a comment on The Daily Whys

Brunch is Always a Good Idea

Is there anything more delicious than a morning that starts gently and quietly sans alarm clock and culminates in a decadent brunch spread complete with tart, fizzy mimosas and the fluffiest pancakes known to man?

Posted byAly Writes25th Dec 202025th Dec 2020Posted inBaking, Recipes, UncategorizedTags:Baker, Baking, Brunch, Favourite Things, RecipesLeave a comment on Brunch is Always a Good Idea

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