A Bit of Fall Baking

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, I must confess I've been quite lazy, taking full advantage of my pregnancy fatigue.

I thought I'd  write up a little post of some baking I've been doing this month. If you're Canadian like myself you celebrated Thanksgiving a couple weeks ago. Normally I do a huge amount of baking whenever it comes to holidays and family celebrations. This year however, because of my morning sickness and fatigue I opted to just do a few quick things for Thanksgiving. I made Pumpkin Spice White Chocolate Chip cookies, Apple Crisp Cups and one Apple Pie for my in-laws Thanksgiving celebration.

Also, everyday Mike takes a muffin and a bag of cookies as part of his lunch. So needless to say buying a package of muffins and cookies every week tends to get a little expensive, and as we are trying to save money for a down payment on a house I've decided to make what I can at home. So just this past weekend I wiped up a batch of 4 dozen Chocolate Chips Drop Cookies and 2 dozen Chocolate Chip Muffins.

These Pumpkin Spice White Chocolate Chip Cookies were a hit with friends and family. These cookies taste very cozy to me. Perfect cookie for the colder fall weather. I believe I grabbed this recipe off of Pinterest and it will definitely become a fall baking staple for me.

A couple years ago during a storm of Thanksgiving baking, I stumbled upon this recipe for Apple Crisp Cups from all recipes.com. It's also a family favorite, these bite sized cups taste like a little mini Apple Pie in your mouth! They also make the kitchen smell amazing while baking!

These are the family favorite Grandma's Chocolate Chip Drop Cookie. As a kid my Grandma Halse always had a batch of these hot and ready for any visit. She used to bake them all the time and my dad's friends would just come over and sit in the kitchen with her and eat them. They've always been my favorite thing to make (and eat). It was actually baking these that sparked my love/interest in baking. I've tweaked them a bit to suit my own needs, instead of using Cake & Pastry flour I tend to just use All Purpose (mainly because I always have a lot of All Purpose Flour kicking around in my pantry), and I try to use Sea Salt instead of regular table salt when I can. I also love to load up the chocolate chips! Because who doesn't want extra chocolate in a cookie!

These Chocolate Chip Muffins I made for the first time yesterday. I have to say I was rather lazy and just picked the first search result from Google while looking for a recipe. I'm not totally happy with these. They taste kind of bland to my personally. Next time I make this recipe (because it was really quick and easy) I'll probably add a teaspoon or two of vanilla to just give it some extra flavor. But next time I might try out a different recipe. If you have a great chocolate chip muffin recipe please let me know!

So there you have it! A few baked goodies I've made this last month. I forgot to take a picture of my beautiful Apple Pie (homemade pastry and all) so that's a bit disappointing! But it was delicious and didn't last long!

If you'd like me to throw up the recipes to any of these please let me know!

Until next time!

See you later, 

Christine