Brace yourselves.

2nd time helping out ChefTech with their Brazilian specialty night, aka Bossa Nova Bites! I couldn’t be prouder of everyone making 🇧🇷 food for the first time. Here’s feijoada, pão de queijo, coxinha, bolo de cenoura aka carrot cake. But trust me when I say this is not the American version. 👩‍🍳 💋

Current mood

Beyond excited!! Christmas comes early everyone!! @dr-bethany-jacobs.bsky.social

So here’s the spoiler alert on what I made today: Japaense Milk Bread.

This chapter in my ebook read fabulously, but in audio it’s even better. Trust. 🤣 😂 #sapphic fiction @clareashton.bsky.social

Another day where we ask, “What is she making today?” One hint is inside the standing mixing bowl.

More breads. Why? Because…bread is life. Couldn’t be more proud of the students. Rinse. Repeat.

Today is my mother-in-law’s birthday. She is a chocoholic like myself and requested chocolate cake. Her wish is, of course, my command.

Checking emails and I kinda feel like this is a bit forward don’t you think? Mind ya business Awwwwwdible. Sapphic audiobook sale….

Today’s Sapphic Book Bake is from Scotland. We have Tattie Scones. Featured in The Woman From the Waves. Roslyn Sinclair gives us a rich and filling story full of intrigue, spice, and a fair bit of humor (think “fish out of water” in every sense). @writingroslyn.bsky.social

Hard to believe it’s savory bread week already. Yet here we are. Once again, sorry gluten-free peops.

So, today is not 3.14, but it is pi (π) day (Ba dum pum).. Quiche Lorraine, Jefferson Davis pie, plus the usual suspects of fruits, apple, blueberry, raspberry, and cherry. Enjoy.

Coconut cream pie made by yours truly. Almost forgot to add the pic with toasted coconut flakes..d’oh!

Ta-da! Hummingbird cake! I promise, no hummingbirds were harmed in the making of this cake for Esposa and her twin sister, my fabulous SIL. Instead we have: bananas, crushed pineapple, and toasted pecans with a cream cheese filling and frosting.

Guys are cleaning our garage, trying to find where the rats are coming in. So I have a box of old pics and I’m laughing my ass off. A few of them are from when I was in my mid-20’s and had a much better body (I’m wearing a black corset and my boobs are spilling out like a showgirl 😂)

Normally I don’t like to have more than one book going at the same time. But my colleague recommended this one and my library wait list was so long, I figured I could make it work. So far, it’s an interesting read as someone who deals with anxiety and other issues.

Honestly, sometimes I think we don’t deserve Moira Quirk. Then I laugh and laugh as I hit “play”.

It would be remiss of me to leave out esposa’s latest and greatest - jalapeño cheddar sourdough bread. Here’s another episode of me and The Slicer.

And the answer is…chocolate chip banana bread!

Part 1. Guess what I’m baking today.

Next bake for today’s class the students made chiffon, sponge, and genoise cakes - which autocorrect keeps calling a “Denise” cake. Seems legit. Here are the almond chiffon, orange sunshine chiffonon, a cannolki cream filled sponge, and two rolled cakes: strawberry cream and chocolate.

I know it’s a day late, but celebrating bisexuals is every day anyway. This Princess Lesbiana wishes nothing but love to all the bisexual Barbies, Kens,Theys, and Thems!! (And it rhymes too!)

My boss is enjoying her 20th birthday (shhh 🤐). Here we have the vanilla custard with blackberries and raspberries tart and a lemon with lemon cream and raspberries tart. Lord knows I loves me a tart.

Even extroverts need 🤫

Taking the time today to keep my mind occupied with things that bring me joy. Pavlova. Of course. But with apologies to Australians and Italians, I’ve made yet another different item: Tiramisu Pavlova (3 tiers).

September coworkers’ birthdays and a desire to do something different. Not just cheesecake with blueberry filling on top. Nope, the blueberry was mixed into the cheesecake filling. Blueberries and and Lemon zest on top with the whipped cream to top it off

Sapphic Book Bake! #sapphic

Let’s take Sapphic Book Bake to Italy!! Do not come at me for my terrible pronunciation of sfogliatella. “That’s Amore” and Georgia Beers takes us on a romantic trip where one of our main characters is a food and wine tour guide! Remember, baking is AMORE! @georgiabeers.bsky.social

Heading out for a massage and then spa time with this book. It’s called self-care, get amongst it. Thanks to @writingroslyn.bsky.social for the sassy swag.

Wow!! And why is this video 6 hours long? 😉🔥

A much better effort at the Dutch dessert known as Tompouce. And just to be cheeky, I added a little extra something special to the usual vanilla custard filling. A layer of crema al pistachiooooooo!

Regarding the Dogg: I shouldn’t have to do this, but here we f’ing are. For those who need a reminder of what it means to have “representation” in television and film. Sooo…Thank goodness baking classes start soon.

The funny thing about pairing sapphic books, is that they’re a lot like a classic black cocktail dress or suit. They go with pretty much anything.

Ok, number one, if you’re on the west coast, there’s still time (i think) to get these wonderful books. Number two, I am TEAM WILLOW all the way. That pup does no wrong. I said what I said.

Thank goodness there’s more. Another trilogy, more 🔥 🔥 and then LILITH! Right @tjdallas7.bsky.social?? Riiiiight? #sapphic

Sapphic book mail is one of the best things waiting for you at the end of a long day. Thank you @writingroslyn.bsky.social!

Need your very own Procrastinating Housework starter pack? I’ve got mine! Look no further!! Five of them! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!!!

If you need me, 19th of August, I’ll be with these two lovelies. Please don’t need me. @leewinteroz.bsky.social @albrookswriter.bsky.social

One day I’ll visit Paris.There are many reasons, much of them are edible. Seriously I hope to see a different Eiffel Tower.Women have been ignored in many areas of life, the arts, sciences, even cooking! I hope the respect will finally come. If we can’t have it here, then at least have it there.

There’s a pottery wheel involved? OMG OMG OMG! This is not a drill. I.am.more.than.ready!!!!!

Click the buy button. Wherever you prefer to click your buttons. Because @albrookswriter.bsky.social knows how to write about finding your buttons. So click it. Early and often.

You’ve been on the edge of your seat, I know. Here’s the answer and the cake. This is an Orange Chiffon Cake. But Surly Teen dubbed this Froot Loop cake because at the time he first had it, his 12 year old sophisticated palate declared, “It tastes like Froot Loops.”

Tomorrow is Surly Teen’s birthday. From the pic, see if you can guess what kind of cake it is.

Remember, there’s no such thing as “leftover danish dough.” How else are you going to get your serving of apricot?

3 sapphic book bakes done for GCLS! Dedicating this last simple cookie to the beautiful people who indulged my silliness in partaking of pics and videos with my photo stand-in. Next year Orlando, Florida better prepare for us to show up and show out. Baking is love!

Dedicated to the Shayna Maydelah herself, debut author Carrie Byrd @byrdwrites.bsky.social and her GCLS nominated book “Loser of the Year”. A very special shoutout for a Jewish main character. Here we have Challah: an egg-enriched bread recognized by the braid and being super shiny and yummy.