Last thing you baked?

[French Lady]

Today I'm baking Apple Brandy Spice Cake from a recipe that my mom used to make at Christmas time. I divide it up into small loaf pans so I can give it as presents. It smells and tastes heavenly.

[crissybb03]

I made peanut butter cookies for my friend for when we exchanged gifts. She loves those cookies. They turned out great and I ate pretty much all of them after she left.... :p

[babypiggy]

Checker board matcha cookies

[acosta]

sugar cookies - from a bag BUT made my own icing from scratch and decorated with christmas/winter theme
lemon meringue pie including crust from scratch (first time I ever made this)
butter tarts (first time I ever made these - delicious)

[Angela273]

Over the last couple of weeks I have been making goodies for family, friends, neighbours, and co-workers.
A double batch of haystack cookies.
9x9 and 9x13 inch pans of raspberry and oatmeal squares.
9x13 inch pan of oatmeal Smarties squares.
100 hand rolled peanutbutter chocolate truffles

We are invited to spend Christmas at a friend's house. When I asked what we should bring he quickly asked for my "chocolate cookies." He means the haystack cookies, so I'll be making another batch of those tomorrow.

[krysta lynne]

made this a couple days ago... banana chocolate bars with cream cheese frosting

[krysta lynne]

also these, because my son insisted lol

[acosta]

HAHA ^^^

Making butter tarts as we speak! :D

[Natalka]

I made buttertarts too - some with just raisins, and others with walnuts and toasted coconut (because I don't like raisins).
Also made cheesecake squares.
Got everything ready to make spritz cookies - husband had to go dig out the cookie press from the basement because it wasn't unpacked yet - BUT I used a new recipe, because I wanted them to be more like shortbread, and drat - though they pressed through fine, they grew too much during baking and lost most of their designs. Too buttery, I think. However, they tasted yummy. Glad I only did one pan, though, because then I added some coconut, sliced almonds and poppyseed, made small balls, rolled in coloured sugar - and they turned out nicely.

Baking hint - the new Neon food colouring by Club House makes really nice colours - a nice violet, light lime, muted red, and peacock blue.

[babypiggy]

Chocolate swirl cookies

[Natalka]

^ yum, my mom used to make those!

[bellaswan]

The old fashioned Chocolate Chip cookies to serve my cousins from out-of-town.

[Crochetlady]

I made 2 big roast pans of nuts n bolts.

[Natalka]

Made peanut brittle yesterday - but it needs a new name, maybe just peanut candy?
I couldn't find the candy thermometer, so couldn't use my usual recipe and found one on a blog for microwave peanut brittle.
Well, I didn't have enough corn syrup, so started nuking it, checked and it needed more liquid, so I added a bit of water - finished the recipe, put it out to cool - in blobs, instead of one big sheet.

So it's kinda softish - not 'brittle', but wow, is it ever good and creamy-ish. A good 'mistake', which can't be recreated since I'm not sure how much of the corn syrup I used (end of the bottle, so I just drizzled it in), and how much water I added.

Also, my husband had once mistakenly bought peanuts salted in the shell, and I didn't like to just eat them as they were, so I shelled them all and used them in this recipe. Really good because it's the peanut which is salty, not just salt on the outside.

[Crochetlady]

2 dozen bran muffins