The baking roster

Just because I felt like .

• Brownies made with cake mixes and a stirrer, diligently stirring 50 times as instructed. The sickly sweet mediocre ones.
• Cheesecake, a homage to New York, a first experiment at baking from first principles, although admittedly the cream cheese was packaged.
• Red velvet cake. Given my reluctance to add artificial colouring, this one just ended up looking brown. And I also found it decidedly un-velvety.
• Recipe for cold lemon souffle - too little gelling agent = Cold lemon soup.
• Pineapple-upside-down cake, for my lovely beneviolent's birthday. I burnt the caramel the first time around.
• Marble brownies. Moist, crunchy, marble brownies. Swearing that I will never again touch a cake mix. What for? We've got real talent here.
• Banana walnut cake. I love bananas. I love walnuts. End of story.
• Blueberry crumb cake. Moist cake, warm, gooey berry filling, and crunchy buttery top. Say mmm.
• Chocolate chip sea-salt cookies. A revelation.
• French Macarons with chocolate almond buttercream. I am still shocked that I pulled this one off successfully.
• Lace cookies dipped in dark chocolate. Lapped up by 25 fellow bakers at a cookie exchange event. I'm still smiling.
• Lemon squares with shortbread crust. lemony lemony lemony. It's never too lemony for me.

Many more and still counting. A year later, I weigh exactly the same and I'm considering that an achievement.