This week’s baked favorites

My fellow food bloggers are amazing to the point of where I want to quit college and do nothing but bake and blog every day! Then I realize I’m 19 years-old and kind of need a college degree. Oh well. While I’m waiting to actualize my pastry dreams, these are some of my favorite recipes this week.

A Recipe a Day made Hawaiian rolls with her bread machine this week, though she did have a few qualms with the recipe. Too much lemon flavor “detracted” from the roll itself.

Simple chocolate chip cookies were the Mar. 1 post on Cookie Madness. Baked on the top rack of her oven at 300 degrees, a lower temperature than the traditional 375, these cookies will come out super chewy!

The latest recipe from Half Baked boggled my mind. It just doesn’t make sense to me that a chocolate cake could be made without flour. I mean, how does it become CAKE?!

What could be better than a root beer and chocolate cake? ADD CHOCOLATE FROSTING. Sweet Tooth was definitely tuning into my brain waves this past week when she posted a recipe from Baked: New Frontiers in Baking.

What could be more delicious than Pumpkin Coffee Cake? Tami’s Kitchen Table Talk came up with this delicious variation on the beloved coffee cake when she discovered she didn’t have vanilla pudding! See? Mistakes CAN bring joy.

What’s baking? cleverly used cherry pie filling in her Cherry Delights because regular cherries were not available in her grocery stores. Pie filling is definitely something to keep on hand when the fruits you want are out of season. It’s not just for pies anymore!

A peek into someone else’s oven

These are what my fellow food bloogers are mixing up and baking in their kitchens this week!

A Recipe a Day is currently cooking pasta and broccoli, but on Feb. 20, she revealed her favorite bread recipe, Crispy Cinnamon Streusel Banana Cream Cheese Bread, even though she doesn’t like bananas!

Cream cheese also makes an appearance on What’s Baking? in her Double Chocolate Cream Cheese Cookies. While the star ingredient is cream cheese, chocolate cake mix is the basis for these delectable treats.

Something New is Cooking showcased another banana nut bread, minus the cinnnamon streusel topping. Simplisitic, yet sweet!

Gorgeously frosted vanilla sugar cookies are this week’s star at Cake Journal. The quick, two-step proccess is a no-fail way at making fantastic cookies.

I couldn’t keep my eyes off of Tami’s Kitchen Table Talk February Cookie Carnival choice: Chocolate Fudge Cookies with Toffee and Dried Cherries. Anything that has toffee in it is sure to win my vote!

Happy Fasnacht Day was the theme at a blog I just started checking out, Half Baked. She shared a bit of her family traditions with a post all about doughnuts.

~Enjoy!