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Critical Bakes: The Final Prompt

Alrighty gang, here it is! The last week! The last prompt on my list, and it is none other than the one, the only, Scanlan Shorthalt!

Create a dish (sweet, savory, somewhere in between, it does not matter) inspired by the Scanlan from Critical Role. Post a picture here on tumblr, and tag it @criticalbakes! You can provide a recipe if you’d like, but you don’t have to.

You will have until next Monday (September 14th) to make your dishes!

Remember that the dish need only be inspired by the character in some way; it doesn’t have to visually look like the character at all.

Happy baking!

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Week Twenty

So, I’m dumb and thought I posted this already! It turns out I pressed “save draft” and not “schedule” so WHOOPS SORRY GUYS!

So, there are only two weeks left of Critical Bakes! We have only Scanlan and Percy left, and with the coin I flipped, Percy de Rolo goes first!

Create a dish (sweet, savory, somewhere in between, it does not matter) inspired by the Percy from Critical Role. Post a picture here on tumblr, and tag it @criticalbakes! You can provide a recipe if you’d like, but you don’t have to.

You will have until next Monday (September 7th) to make your dishes!

Remember that the dish need only be inspired by the character in some way; it doesn’t have to visually look like the character at all.

Happy baking!

[katistrophe]

I know @criticalbakes hasn’t reached Scanlan yet, but I just couldn’t wait !

So here’s my Scanlan-inspired dish: a rice stir-fry with chicken (in memory of many chickenful breakfasts) and red onion (it’s purplish, which reminds me of Bigby’s Hand, and it makes you cry). For the seasoning, I used chipotle, cumin and thyme to make it taste like... well, like how I figured fusaka would.

I might also be puzzling over how to make this vegan, for Kaylie.

[laughingatthemortals]

for guest character week of @criticalbakes forever ago, I chose Calianna. I made eggs cooked in tomato because it seemed kind of dragon-y. I turned out well which was nice. 

[laughingatthemortals]

Pita bread Pumpkin Pizza for Pike for @criticalbakes 

[animatedamerican]

Belatedly again: For Pike Trickfoot week on @criticalbakes​, I decided to go with something as sweet and small as our favorite gnome cleric, and also something that suits her color scheme.

As such, I am happy to present: Sugar-Free Homemade Marshmallows! 

I used this recipe, which I adapted from this non-sugar-free one from Smitten Kitchen. I’m also including, just for fun, some of the pictures of cutting them up before the picture of the final product.

[laughingatthemortals]

It’s late but it’s here! For Essek week @criticalbakes mushroom and veggie soup. Loosely based off the description of the dynasty soup kinespaji spaaldl in EGtW 

[katistrophe]

It was my mom doing the cooking, but here’s something I’d been waiting to show off for @criticalbakes ‘s Grog theme for a while: a salad predominantly made from meat!

See, “sausage salad” (made from sliced sausage, chopped onions, and optionally sliced cheese and pickles or such, with a vinegar and oil-based dressing) is a perfectly normal meal in South Germany. So when everyone was utterly confused at the concept of a primarily meat-based salad, I in turn was confused at their confusion XD

(I know a lot of horrifying salads exist, but this is genuinely good, especially with bread.)

[katistrophe]

I made something in advance for @criticalbakes ‘s Pike week, only got around to posting it now though. It’s a hot lemon honey drink... and a chance to show off my favorite mug, which I’ve dubbed Teavo’ssa.

One thing I noticed was that Pike’s healing magic, and Sarenrae herself, often got described as pleasantly hot, like a mug of fresh tea. So I decided to make a hot drink for Pike. Specifically, I’m gonna share my family’s home remedy for a sore throat, because it makes you feel better and fucks you up at the same time, and Pike can do both of these things.

That said, just to be clear, the recipe has no medical properties. It does jack shit for any underlying cause of a sore throat, it at most gives you a break from the ache and I’m half convinced it only does that by tasting interesting enough to distract you from it. DO NOT USE THIS AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT. This is for if you wake up with a kinda scratchy throat, not any full-blown medical issues.

Especially given as of now (August 2020), there’s a GODDAMNED PANDEMIC going on whose symptoms include a sore throat. So if you have the slightest suspicion, GET THEE TO A TEST CENTER in whatever way your country handles it. When you’ve made your appointment for a test, then sit down with a cup of this.

Now, the recipe:

Teaspoon of honey

Generous squeeze of lemon

Pinch of salt

Pinch of cayenne pepper

(Generally, err on the side of adding more of everything.) Dissolve it all in a mug of hot water. Drink, and enjoy temporary pain relief with the blessing of Sarenrae.

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Week Nineteen Prompt Reveal!

Here we go! Down to the wire, folks!

This week, in part to celebrate Ashley Johnson’s birthday, and in part because that’s what number I rolled on the d4, we are celebrating none other than Pike Trickfoot!

Create a dish (sweet, savory, somewhere in between, it does not matter) inspired by the Pike  from Critical Role. Post a picture here on tumblr, and tag it @criticalbakes! You can provide a recipe if you’d like, but you don’t have to.

You will have until next Monday (August 17th) to make your dishes!

Remember that the dish need only be inspired by the character in some way; it doesn’t have to visually look like the character at all.

Happy baking!

[caedogeist-rights]

Ok ok ok @criticalbakes ! Week IDK: favorite guest character i have a simple and quick meal for Spurt. It's a refried bean quesadilla!

[ID: a refried bean quesadilla on a white, yellow, and red plate, held by a light-skinned hand. The background is a backyard patio. End ID]

I feel kinda bad for making something so simple, but in my defence, it did take about 11 minutes, and it did... spurt, a little bit. No recipe, it's literally just tortilla and refried pinto beans.

[laughingatthemortals]

I’m very behind so this is a response to two @criticalbakes weeks at once. Trinket (in his capacity as a one shot character from honey heist) and Vex’s peanut butter, honey, and oat slice with dark chocolate drizzled on top.

[luckyjak]

Week Eighteen Prompt Reveal

And then there were three.

Week Eighteen is your favorite guest star character!

Will you make some cookies for Reani? A hummingbird tea for Shakaste? A  wedding cake for Kashaw and Zahra? A natural 1 cake for Wil Wheaton?

Regardless, I look forward to seeing what everyone makes!

Create a dish (sweet, savory, somewhere in between, it does not matter) inspired by the guest stars from Critical Role. Post a picture here on tumblr, and tag it @criticalbakes! You can provide a recipe if you’d like, but you don’t have to.

You will have until next Monday (August 10th) to make your dishes!

Remember that the dish need only be inspired by the character in some way; it doesn’t have to visually look like the character at all.

Happy baking!

[animatedamerican]

I’m a little late, but this is for One-Shot Characters week on @criticalbakes​!

Now, I don’t really have a favorite one-shot character as such, but I was making these anyway and they struck me as suitable for Undeadwood’s Miriam Landisman: Scodelline! 

Scodelline (also called Tazzine) are almond custards, a traditional Italian-Jewish Passover dessert, usually flavored with orange blossom extract or rosewater, sometimes with vanilla – although I went a little sideways and used orange zest and fresh ginger on this occasion. I’ve long been inclined to headcanon Miriam as Jewish based on her name alone, and like her, these custard cups have a certain understated elegance.

Recipe and additional images below the cut.

Keep reading

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Week Seventeen Prompt Reveal

This week, I rolled one of my favorite Critical Role characters.

I debated about putting him on the list to begin with, as he is an NPC and thus can fall under your “Favorite NPC”s week. However, I justified giving a week dedicated to him for two reason: 1) Matt is only on the list once, where as everyone else is on the list at least twice, potentially a third if you count your favorite spin-off/one shot character, and it felt unfair not to have Matt on there more. And 2) he did get the “Welcome to the Mighty Nein” speech.

So Week Seventeen is officially Essek Thelyss week!

Will you make a Black Moss cupcake? Perhaps a wine dish? Really terrible vanilla wafer cookies? A meat and cheese tray? Or perhaps something off of the Xhorhas foods listed in the Explorer’s Guide to Wildemont?

Regardless, I look forward to seeing what everyone makes!

Create a dish (sweet, savory, somewhere in between, it does not matter) inspired by Essek from Critical Role. Post a picture here on tumblr, and tag it @criticalbakes! You can provide a recipe if you’d like, but you don’t have to.

You will have until next Monday (August 3rd) to make your dishes!

Remember that the dish need only be inspired by the character in some way; it doesn’t have to visually look like the character at all.

Happy baking!

[lostsometime]

Nicodrani Fried Dough

Naturally, Jester Week had to be pastries.  These are actually made according to this no-yeast sufganiyot recipe.  Sufganiyot are a kind of jelly donut eaten mostly around Hannukah, but it was my instinct because 1) Jester = donuts and 2) tieflings always read as very Jewish to me.

I actually wrote a post once about Jester maybe putting cinnamon on sufganiyot so this seemed like the time to give it a try!

The dough didn’t puff up as much as I expected, so I couldn’t actually fill them with jelly, and it came out a lot more like fairground fried dough or funnel cake, especially once I covered it in cinammon and brown sugar.  It’s good, but not quite as sweet as I think Jester would like.

Consume with milk for the True Jester Lavorre Experience!

[katistrophe]

For @criticalbakes ‘s Vex week, I wanted to make something from the Slayer’s Cake: bear claws. With a white chocolate filling for Vex’s armor, and a bit of honey for Trinket. And also made from puff pastry, because I can get that at the supermarket.

Funny story, white chocolate doesn’t behave the way dark chocolate does. So it all went and flowed out of the pastries, which came out of the oven looking like they needed to be bamfed into Vex’s necklace NOW. The pastry dough itself still tastes good, but... I can’t take any credit for that part :P

At least I learned something?