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First (real) bake since having a baby. As much as I wanted to attempt another rainbow roll cake, I needed a little simpler bake with the little one, so funfetti roll for Queer book club it was!

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Oh wait I forgot to say HAPPY PRIDE!!! 🏳️‍🌈

#happy pride 🌈#finally made a cake just for Pride outright #and not saying it's for a birthday

First (real) bake since having a baby. As much as I wanted to attempt another rainbow roll cake, I needed a little simpler bake with the little one, so funfetti roll for Queer book club it was!

#gembakes #baking #it cracked so much but who can tell under all the sprinkles?

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"It's never a matter of time, but a matter of timing. That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop -- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people."

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

I might be over this book.... sometime this year. Maybe.

I loved the Dead Romantics and was thrilled to find this book. Beautiful and heartbreaking all at once. I definitely have a book hangover from it.

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Happy (almost) Pi(e) day! To celebrate I decided to finally take on attempting Iwan's grandfather's lemon pie from The Seven Year Slip. This book still has such a hold on me, and I wanted to honor this beautiful story with a pie.

After much debating and rereading the chapter where Iwan first makes this for Clementine, I decided to go with the method of essentially making a key lime pie with lemon juice and zest instead of lime, and then topping it with a lemon whipped cream.

Someone remind me to take a slice picture and share it later 🍋🥧

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Taking another bite, the sweetness of the cream dancing with the tart lemon, making my teeth curl in delight, I said, "Ah, you're talking about a perfect meal again."

"It all comes full circle," he replied, the edges of his mouth twisting up in a smile. "Universal truths in butter. Secrets folded into the dough. Poetry in the spices. Romance in a chocolate. Love in a lemon pie."

-The Seven Year Slip, Ashley Poston

Reminding myself that this pie was supposed to be a little different every time so I can keep playing with it but also, it's pretty darn good.

Also also no one should give Iwan crap for not being able to make a meringue, egg whites are notoriously difficult to work with and my boy grew up in the (humid) South.

#I'm really happy with the balance on this one #maybe would even take the lemon in the filling up a touch to make it more tart between the sweet crust and cream #but anyway #read the seven year slip #it's so good

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"It's never a matter of time, but a matter of timing. That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop -- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people."

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

I might be over this book.... sometime this year. Maybe.

I loved the Dead Romantics and was thrilled to find this book. Beautiful and heartbreaking all at once. I definitely have a book hangover from it.

gem-bakes

Happy (almost) Pi(e) day! To celebrate I decided to finally take on attempting Iwan's grandfather's lemon pie from The Seven Year Slip. This book still has such a hold on me, and I wanted to honor this beautiful story with a pie.

After much debating and rereading the chapter where Iwan first makes this for Clementine, I decided to go with the method of essentially making a key lime pie with lemon juice and zest instead of lime, and then topping it with a lemon whipped cream.

Someone remind me to take a slice picture and share it later 🍋🥧

#the seven year slip #ashley poston #gembakes #baking #lemon pie

Coworker's birthday is today but since she's getting married in April and is concerned about her sugar intake, I went with a fruit tart for her celebration.

#gembakes #baking #it was a weird crust #but not bad

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A double batch of pumking bread with maple cream cheese frosting for all the holiday parties this weekend

It's a tried and true recipe for me and I like it better than banana bread, because I can keep all the ingredients for it on hand and it's fast to make. The full loaf (as opposed to the mini loaves) takes about 45 min to bake--check with toothpick. For the icing, cream together everything but the powdered sugar first, then add the sugar slowly. and it is important that the butter and cream cheese are room temp and soft, they won't combine right if they're chilled.

#mmmm sounds yummy #recipe #pumpkin bread

My first ever Yule Log cake! I hope it tastes as good as it looks because I'm so proud of how it came out.

#gembakes #baking #yule log #tis the season

*le sigh* I had such high hopes for this one... but alas, I was Icarus, flying to close to the sun (read: I got cocky an attempted to assemble the cake in a different order than the recipe called for, and thus the layers were sliding around and the raspberry filling got all in th icing).

I did my best to cover it but the back still looked like a murder.

But hubby says it's his favorite cake I've ever made, so I will be attempting again (and not being dumb about it).

#gembakes #baking #it's a white chocolate raspberry cake #and I'll admit it did taste good #but I was approximately.25 seconds away from tossing it in the trash #because I was so disappointed in how it was turning out #glad I over came that but still #must do better next time

So. Much. Baking!

#can you tell this was for a girl baby shower?#gembakes #baking

More holiday baaaaakkkkiiinnngggg

#gembakes #baking #pumpkin cheesecake #from thanksgiving last week #it's supposed to be a Cheesecake Factory copycat #I might experiment next year with upping the cream cheese #because it's a no bake #but then it gets SO soft SO easy

Holiday baking is upon us.

First up: my sister has wanted me to make one of my Swiss roll cakes but trans flag colors for over a year now, finally did for her birthday this year.

#gembakes #baking #trans pride #trans positivity #it's the same as the rainbow roll cake #but way less work to color it

Late night apple pie baking 🍏 🥧

Also shout out to my hubby's food photography skills for that after photo 📸

#gembakes #baking #apple pie #yay for not burning it this time!

I've made this chocolate cake before and if you're a fan of chocolate, it never misses.

Today a coworker tried it for the first time and he told me he would kill someone for me to have this cake, so good to know I've got that in my back pocket.

#gembakes #baking #chocolate cake

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Made some stickers for when you just gotta express yourself with a failed cake

#little creatures #but also #good resource for fixing cakes

Lemon pie because I reread The Seven Year Slip this weekend 🍋 🥧

#gembakes #baking #it's also a stress bake #so I don't kill a coworker #but that's less fun #so anyway #it's not the pie from the book #just another lemon pie recipe #but one day I will attempt to recreate the seven year slip pie #when I have time to experiment

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Describing the woman as bafflingly at peace with the simple enjoyment of her hobby, confused sources confirmed Monday that a local fucking weirdo was really good at something that she wasn’t trying to capitalize on. “She’s so good at this it could be a secondary source of income, and yet she seems to have absolutely no interest in monetizing her skill, so what’s the point?” area man Brandon O’Brien said after watching his total oddball neighbor craft yet another dazzling wood sculpture that she would either display in her home or give away for free, even though it could fetch her $1,000, easy.

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#every time someone asks if I'd ever want to open a bakery #and/or be a baker #like no!#baking is my stress relief!#you add money in the mix and it's no longer stress relief!

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Summer baking ☀️

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Wait you guys should know this cake was a product of 50% I wanted to make this forever and had lots of fresh blackberries and 50% spite because I am petty.

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The inside of the petty cake 🖤

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