• Stack of no bake Peanut Butter S'mores Bars
    Baking Projects,  Food Feelings

    No Bake Peanut Butter S’mores Bars

    Okay look. I think I need to explain how I think about myself in the kitchen. I am a diligent recipe follower. You’ll never catch me in a comment section with an “I substituted 4 eggs instead instead of the canola oil and air fried it at 500° for 30 minutes and it didn’t turn out :((((” Baking recipes get followed verbatim, even if that means running to the store in the middle of a task to get more vanilla extract. With cooking I can riff a little—I can swap out or add some ingredients with very little brow sweat involved but I still keep close to the original instructions.…

  • Copycat Gideon's Bakehouse coffee cake cookie test 2 after shaping
    Baking Projects,  Copycat Recipes

    Gideon’s Bakehouse Coffee Cake Cookie Copycat(?)

    Gideon’s Bakehouse describes their limited edition coffee cake cookie as “an extra Buttery Vanilla Bean Cookie filled with Cinnamon Strudel and topped with our Homemade Double Baked Butter Crumbs!” Divine right? Unfortunately, I don’t live anywhere near Gideon’s Bakehouse and they infamously don’t ship their goods. Tragic. As far as I could find, no copycat recipe for this specific cookie exists although there are a couple for the chocolate chip version—which is very very good. So obviously I’m going to try and copycat a cookie that I’ve never actually eaten. Yes, brilliant. This will be a very different endeavor from my copycat Levain Bakery cookie bake-off where I was following…