Category: Snacks

My plan for this afternoon is to decorate these while watching Cruella. That’ll be fun. Was it a good idea to add a TV in the living room so I can work at the kitchen island while watching TV? Yes, yes it was.

Okay, I’m still not sure I have the patience to use such fiddly cutters very often (the pumpkins, toadstools, teacups and spoons), but chilling the dough overnight did help a lot, and spraying the cutter with oil didn’t hurt. Progress. (It is too fun shopping for novelty 3D-printed cutters on Etsy!)

Making these for the Patreon autumn treat boxes and for tomorrow’s bazaar — I will be stuck at a table from 11 – 4, and I am not making Kavi come to keep me company because I am nice and she has a lot of homework to do, and I’m not making Jed come to keep me company because that’s a lot of inside time with people for Jed, so if you are a local friend of mine, may I suggest that sometime tomorrow between 11-4 would be a great time for you to stop by Jamila Yipp’s studio (19 Harrison Street) for our pop-up?

There will be blood-orange & pistachio cookies to sample, and probably passionfruit marshmallows and maybe milk toffee and/or dragonfruit chocolates too. We’ll see how long my cooking energy holds out today.

Leaves. Lots and lots of falling leaves. Haven’t figured out how I want to decorate these yet — I’m thinking maybe a mix:

• icing with sprinkles

That’d look pretty on a plate. These are mostly to give away at the Bazaar on Sunday; stop by, nibble, shop.

Cookies! My treat box theme this fall is “the dragons of autumn.” Autumn is pumpkins and tea and woods with mushrooms and apparently dragons? Yes, dragons.

Lori Rader-Day, I meant to do the teacup and spoon cookies for your tea party, but I ran out of time, alas!

Hm. I could use tips on unmolding cookies. I bought some intricate cookie molds, and some of them, like the mushroom below, came out fine, but the pumpkins lost their tops — I couldn’t get them out of the molds without breaking.

I tried using a dull knife to gently push the bits out, but some bits are too small even for that to fit. I dipped the molds in flour — is there some other trick I’m missing? I don’t understand how you’re supposed to do this.

Pistachio & blood orange cookies for the autumn Patreon treat boxes, and for the local Bazaar on Sunday.

What Bazaar, you say? Why is this the first we’re hearing about it? Well, I’m very behind in telling you about it! More details shortly, but I’ll be in the arts district Sunday 11-4, at 19 Harrison Street, with Serendib stuff.

https://www.facebook.com/event_invite/1Nwq7We1m/

It’s becoming a thing here, baking on Sunday so there’s some easy ‘breakfast-on-the-go’ for Kavi to grab on her way out the door for school –otherwise, she’ll just skip breakfast most days, of which her Amma (that’s me) does not approve.

Pumpkin cakelets in this case, using two different Nordic Ware pans. Interesting how one pan gives a browner result than the other (same batter, same cooking times).

The basic Betty Crocker recipe is fine, but a little boring to me. I think next time, I’m going to try to jazz it up a little, maybe desi-fy it. What would you put in your pumpkin cakelets or muffins? (Not cream cheese, because I want something that can sit out on the counter for a few days…)

Sigh. Mourn with me — I was making a big batch (two pounds) of cashews with cayenne, honey, and lime; they would have been DELICIOUS. But I got distracted with a different piece of work at the tail end of baking, so the cashews went ten minutes longer than they should have, and that turned them black and charred and readers, they were NOT GOOD. I had to toss the whole batch, which was very sad. (Also, cashews are expensive.)

This is how I am WITH the ADD meds. Can you imagine how often this kind of thing used to happen without them? Often.