quick pic: jammers

[I made 16 on Friday. They are all gone. From The Kitchn.]

makin' whoopie

Sorry for the lack of posts. Holidays plus several day of being sick have put me behind but I want to share my favorite new recipe from this season- Peppermint Whoopie Pies. They'll be great for Valentine's Day too, especially if you put food dye in the icing. A friend sent me the recipe and we had a baking night at my house.

I didn't do a great job reading the recipe ahead of time, so I used a brown sugar substitute and made my own buttermilk, but the cookies still turned out great.

[Vanilla and Peppermint]

[Just the icing with the peppermint chips was delicious]

[We couldn't quite make them pretty, but we make them delicious]

i'd eat peaches every day

Every summer I'm reminded of how amazing peaches are. I always forget about them when thinking about my favorite fruit- I think of raspberries, watermelon, but always forget the peaches. Thanks to my CSA (shout out to Victory Farms) I was able to get 20 lbs of Henley's Orchard's peaches. The plan was to can them, but instead in the past few days my roommates and I have been devouring the box. Luckily, we've put in an order for 30lbs this week (only $25!)

I've managed to bake the past two nights, last night a peach galette and today a cobbler/crumble. I don't think I had ever, ever made a crust before but not having to pre-bake it I was feeling pretty confident. I had found the recipe before, probably linked by The Kitchn but I can't remember. But I tried to basically follow it, though I accidently used half the butter and had to go back and combine the rest when the dough wouldn't form. I also used vanilla instead of almond flavoring, since I'm not a fan of almond. I maximized the peach coverage, so my sides weren't folded up as pretty.

[Pre-baking.]

[Post-baking.]

[Pre-eating.]

Tonight, my peach cobbler is in the oven! I used this recipe from Orangette, with these adaptions from The Kitchn, except I used a deeper Pyrex baking dish so I could use 10 peaches instead of 5 so that hopefully I can have leftovers for breakfast!