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if you’re craving chocolate muffins after the olympic muffin man videos, jordan the stallion on tiktok has the recipe for you

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Ridiculously Easy.

“Ridiculously easy buttermilk biscuits!” You click the link. It’s a novella about finding inner peace in suburbia. You never knew you were disturbed till now.

“Ridiculously easy green beans!” You click the link, there are twelve ingredients. None of them are green beans.

“Ridiculously easy salted pistachio caramel latte coffee cake in three easy steps!” You click the link. There are twelve steps. 

“Ridiculously easy marshmallow fondant!“ You click the link. It’s another novella about suburbia, this time about the dangers of feeding chemicals to your children. You wonder when you acquired these children and worry about their eyes. They are too bright, too happy, too shining…

“Ridiculously easy evaporated milk custard!*” *Must own own cow.

“Ridiculously easy shortcake in 12 steps!” You click the link. There are no steps.

“Ridiculously easy, easy to make, easy in three minutes, easy!” It doesn’t tell you what you’re making but you’re pretty certain it shouldn’t be hissing.

“Ridiculously easy,” the article reads, “easy, it’s so easy, easy” you hear laughing. Your face hurts why does your face hurt?

“It’s so easy,” you tell you friends, your smile is not your own. You can feel your teeth growing, “so easy, you’ll hardly feel a thing!”

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my baking rules

1. be yourself and have fun

2. always taste test the most munted looking part first

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apple pastries :)

heres the recipe for some apple pastries i made today !! they are perfect for an autumn picnic :D

makes: 6 - 10 pastries

oven temp: 200C

ingredients:

2 apples

ready made pastry ( puff pastry recipe coming soon)

1 egg (for egg wash

sugar

cinnamon

recipe:

cut apples horizontally into slices all the way through the core

using a small cookie cutter, take the cores out of each apple slice

wrap each slice in pastry, by lopping the pastry around the edge and through the hole in the middle

egg wash the pastry and sprinkle with a mix of sugar and cinnamon

bake for around 12 minutes

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apple pastries :)

heres the recipe for some apple pastries i made today !! they are perfect for an autumn picnic :D

makes: 6 - 10 pastries

oven temp: 200C

ingredients:

2 apples

ready made pastry ( puff pastry recipe coming soon)

1 egg (for egg wash

sugar

cinnamon

recipe:

cut apples horizontally into slices all the way through the core

using a small cookie cutter, take the cores out of each apple slice

wrap each slice in pastry, by lopping the pastry around the edge and through the hole in the middle

egg wash the pastry and sprinkle with a mix of sugar and cinnamon

bake for around 12 minutes

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Maids of honour

Recipe under the cut !! Maids of honour are shortcust pastry with cake on top, with a jam filling !

Makes: 12

Oven temp: 180C

Ingredients for pastry:

125g plain flour

62g hard margarine

cold water

pinch of salt

Ingredients for cake:

50g soft margarine

50g self-raising flour

1 medium egg

50g caster sugar

Recipe!!

preheat oven

make pastry by rubbing in the flour, margarine and salt, then adding cold water until a dough is formed

cover pastry and allow it to chill

roll out pastry and use a fluted cutter to line 12 bun tins. Chill the pastry cases for 10 minutes

make the cake topping by creaming together the margarine and sugar, then mixing in the egg, then fold in the flour

add a teaspoon of jam to each of the pastry cases

top the pastry cases with cake mix, and make sure to spread it evenly

bake for 15 minutes and decorate with icing sugar

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“Aw man! This pie doesn’t taste at all like what grandma use to make! I’m must be a terrible baker:(“

Maybe! Or maybe one of many things might be different from the recipe you’ve been trying to follow

Baking is largely both a science, and bullshit. Anything from the altitude you’re at, or the mosture in the air, or the way you’re measuring ingredients (ie weight vs volume) can effect how your final result of what you’re making will come out. A few examples just in my grandmother’s Apple Pie recipe are

Her recipe calls for Crisco in the crust, but Crisco changed their formula in 2007, effecting the taste and texture of the crusts made, so adjustments have to be made to account for that

The Apple tree in her backyard is gone, and no apples sold commonly in stores are similar to whatever random variety she had, and there are over 7,500 known varieties of apples

Not all flour that you buy from the store is the same, and I’m not just even talking about like. Cake flour vs wheat flour. Even in the US the kind of regular baking flour differs depending on where you live, and where it’s sourced from

So will I ever make that Apple pie I remember fondly from my childhood? Probably not! Just gotta figure out my own thing that works.

I dunno why I made this post at 6am. Just shit to keep in mind next time you’re struggling with an older recipe I guess!

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victoria sponge cake !!

sponge cake recipe under the cut

Makes: 2 tier sponge cake

Oven temp 170C

Ingredients::

4 large eggs

225g self-raising flour

1tsp baking powder

225g caster sugar

225g soft margarine

Recipe !!!!

grease and line 2 cake tins

light oven to 170C

cream together the butter and sugar

mix in eggs

fold in flour

bake for 15-20 minutes

decorate !

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hey. don’t cry. crush two cloves of garlic into a pot with a dollop of olive oil and stir until golden then add one can of crushed tomatoes a bit of balsamic vinegar half a tablespoon of brown sugar half a cup of grated parmesan cheese and stir for a few minutes adding a handful of fresh spinach until wilted and mix in pasta of your choice ok?

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shoutout to this person in the steam reviews for stardew valley who decided to share an apple pie recipe

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breadrollbreadrollbreadrollbreadrollbrea

Heres my bread roll recipe !!

Makes: 6 rolls

Oven temp: 200C

ingredients:

200g strong flour

100ml warm water

1dsp oil

1tsp yeast

1tsp salt

1 egg

Recipe!!

mix together flour, oil, yeast and salt. Then gradually add water

knead for 5 minutes, if you want other flavours add them now !!

leave the dough to rise

shape into rolls and leave to rise again

egg wash rolls and bake for 10 minutes