Great British Baking is BACK!

The new season of The Great British Bake-Off on Netflix premiered today with the debut of new co-host, Alison Hammond. 

Can bran muffins be both healthy and tasty? I decided to find out. 

Aside from CHOCOLATE my next favorite flavor is Cherry. Not sure if it was a conscious or subconscious  act but on a recent grocery trip I ended up with double the amount of cherries than I needed. I took this as a sign that I should try my hand at making Cherry Hand Pies.  And if I got ambitious add a chocolate drizzle on the top.  

One of my favorite magazines and websites is, Bake from Scratch. I love looking at the recipes.  I don't always try them though. Sometimes they feel a bit intimidating. This one, however, seemed very doable, and well, its bread.

I confess, I. Love. Chocolate. Chip. Cookies.  So when I saw that there is a Chocolate Chip Cookie day, I had to do a bake. True, I use any reason, eh excuse to make them.

There has got to be some reward for all of the work with maintaining sourdough starter. I knew going into this that there would be discard. I was not quite prepared for how much discard there be. 

My family loves when I make cinnamon rolls, especially during the winter holidays. The recipe that I've used came from an article in RealSimple magazine published the September 2018 Make It Yourself column. That was at the start of my baking journey.  

Memorial Day weekend was fast approaching. It was going to be a busy weekend with a 2-year-old birthday party and time with my family.  My dad is supportive but... he prefers simple bakes. So for this holiday, I made cookies. I decided to do three different cookie: Snickerdoodles, Oatmeal Raisin, and Chocolate Chip. The favorites of my family. These are the best made cookies... so far.

Perusing my refrigerator, my eyes landed on a container of fresh blueberries. What could I make? I landed on muffins. I don't use mixes often, except for the Marvelous Oat Bran Muffin Mix from Lindley Mills located in North Carolina.