🍰 Previous Bakes, A Baking Entry 🍰

Good evening lovelies! 💕 How is everyone today?! I came across a lovely s'more cookie recipe on Instagram and have wanted to bake something again but haven't made the time for it as I should 💢 To motivate myself I'll be looking back on my previous bakes! ⭐

Growing up I didn't have access to an oven. My parents and I used to live in an efficiency apartment and despite us living there for almost eighteen years, our landlord never bothered to purchase a replacement since the stovetop still worked. When my parents were finally able to acquire a home of their own, the oven that came with it was busted along with many other major appliances and plumbing so we couldn't afford a new one until 2021. I had made brownies and other simple bakes with friends at their houses but to have an oven of my own was definitely a huge moment in my life. Needless to say, I was over the moon 💞

My first home-baked dessert was a strawberry tart 🍓I used a pre-made dough for the crust and remember hating the taste but luckily my parents enjoyed it anyway. Unfortunately, I also disliked how ugly it looked so I didn't take additional photos;; 

After the tart, I started my pie era™ starting with apple pies. I'm very unfamiliar with pies, not just baking them but eating them. They're not part of my culture or the local culture of my hometown but at the time I was nostalgic and fixated on that scene from Snow White where she's making a gooseberry pie for Grumpy 🥧

So far, pies are my favorite dessert to bake, I like how creative you can be with the dough! ✨I also made two pumpkin pies but unfortunately when I switched phones earlier in the year, a lot of the HEIC photo files from my old iPhone became corrupted so I lost many pictures 😔

From November to December last year, I experimented with basic cookie recipes and found that I thoroughly enjoy brown sugar cookies with chocolate chips the most! 🍪⭐ I found cookies unusually difficult to bake. The majority of my first batches ended up getting charred and were completely unedible 😓 There was a bit of a learning curve but in the end, I was able to get the hang of it 🎉 

In case you missed out, I spoke in-depth earlier in the year about my experience baking strawberry cheesecakes as well! That's it for now!! Thanks again for reading 💘 See y'all next time 💟