Bakers! How the heck are you?
I just spent 4 days in the kitchen testing new recipes for the coming weeks. One of my assistants and I baked up a storm Monday โ Thursday. It was awesomely productive. And thatโs how I plan to approach recipe testing this year. โPower weeksโ in the kitchen so I can spend the rest of the month on photography and writing. And having a relatively normal life outside of work! I really have no clue how to balance it all, but this feels like the best plan for my new role as a mom. Weโll see how it goes!
One of my goals for work this year is to provide new, exciting, somewhat challenging, and fresh content. For quite some time, my achillesโ heel has been madeleine cookies. The texture! I couldnโt get it right! Happy to say that after 6 or 7 different test batches, we landed on a winner. Stay tuned for the recipe (and what worked/didnโt work). We also tested a new recipe for roll out cookies, babka, a fun ganache, cupcakes, and pound cakeโฆ among a couple others. Iโm sugared out. And so is my freezer!!! Iโm excited to share all these new recipes with you. ๐
I shared some of our week on social media. One main question: where did I purchase my flour containers?! I have 4 of these. Theyโre not very glamorous, but theyโre functional. Very large, so theyโre great for anyone who bakes a lot. Snap shut, ingredients stay fresh, brown sugar doesnโt dry out. I use them to store flour, sugar, brown sugar, and confectionersโ sugar.
I love them so much (and recommend them so much) that theyโre even included on my holiday gifts for the baker page.
