Michelle's Peachy Adventures

Sounds like quite the good time, right?  One of my most favorite things about this whole project with Rose is that I prefer to do my baking over at my parent's house so I don't have the dessert sitting around my house tempting me.  I get to spend my time, baking and experimenting with my mom and it is the best time.

My pick for this month is my most favorite dessert, peach cobbler.  We ended up using a family recipe for the cobbler today and I was excited to get to use a recipe out of that little recipe box of my mom's.

Who doesn't love a nice peach? We couldn't help but sample a few slices as I got them ready for the cobbler.   My mom had never left the peel on her peach cobbler before so she was a little unsure about me doing that, but it turned out just fine.  So if you are wondering, leave the peel on!! (Family friend that was over today Googled it because she was curious and Google said yes, leave the peel on.)

I got everything prepped and had to resist eating some more of those peaches. I did burn my pinky finger with splattering butter when I was dumping the peaches in the pie dish.  Ouch!  

Looking good.  At this point, I would have been happy with some sugar and a spoon and to just eat the peaches like that. (Confession time...I am not a huge fan of baking. I get bored really quick with it.  And trying to diet is not beneficial having this temptation all the time.  I challenged myself to learn new culinary skills so I take each challenge and do it happily once a month, but I probably wouldn't do it on a rainy day just because I was bored.)

Into the oven it goes.  I have to confess the funniest part of today was that some of the cobbler bubbled over the side and started to smoke. You would have thought there was something more substantial in the oven than that small pie dish of cobbler. We had the doors open, fans going, and crying from the smoke.  But we were laughing just as hard over it, burning eyes and all.  (Side note...Sweet Bo the Lhasa Apso eyed the smoke and was out the back door in a flash, I'm sure preparing for the cursed smoke detector going off.  Spoiler alert: It never went off.)

Ta-Da!!! All done and smelling like peaches and cinnamon up in here!  We left it to cool on the counter and ran an errand, knowing we were in for a treat when we got back home!

A nice scoop of vanilla ice cream and some warm peach cobbler...it was a tasty ending to the August baking challenge.  I loved it and loved that I got to share my day with my mom, baking. 

Are you a cobbler fan?  What kind is your favorite? Sound off in the comments!

Peach Cobbler, the Queen's requested dessert

It's me, friends.

I'm the Queen.

It is my birthday month and this Leo claims that she is Queen of August.  And peach cobbler is my most favorite dessert.   I had originally thought about how to tie my fave Marvel or Star Wars characters to the cobbler, but decided it just needed to be put out there that this is my birthday dessert request.  (Though if you want to comment with pictures of Tom Hiddleston, Sebastian Stan, or Harrison Ford I won't complain too loudly.)

I was reading up on cobbler to talk about it a little and over on Wikipedia and have been grossed out seeing there is such a thing as tomato cobbler. (This picky lady doesn't do the tomato thing ever.  The texture squicks me out like no other.)   The variations of cobbler also are amusing:  Betty, grunt, slump, buckle, sonker, boot.  I don't know that I would happily be able to eat grunt, slump, or sonker. 



There are so many variations of how to make cobbler, but it is such an easy dessert to make.  I have absolutely NO doubt that both Rose and myself are going to knock this baby out of the park.  I don't know if there is really any way to make it fancy, but we will see how it goes.

Stay tuned...The August Bake It or Fake It is incoming...

Michelle and the Captain America Cupcake Challenge.

Thanks to Rose for reminding me that I completely forgot to post to the blog after baking the other day.

So the July challenge of the month was to make Captain America Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes and I'm 100% Team Cap so you know that I was all the way on board with this one. 

The recipe is courtesy of All Recipes, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes, and was pretty simple to make. I made the chocolate chip cookie dough from a family recipe on Sunday and left them to freeze until Friday when I made the cupcakes.  I definitely agree that you need to make sure to freeze your cookie dough balls or you are going to have dry, nasty cookies in the middle of a delicious cupcake.

Aren't they pretty?

The frosting was a chocolate buttercream and is a recipe that came from my Mom.  Everyone in my family had a cupcake and raved about them and how much they really liked the cookie in the middle of it.  A family friend said that it was just perfect mix of the two, not too much cookie or cupcake.  I gave the last two cupcakes to my co-host with Pop Culture Junkees Podcast and she shared with her brother, they both loved it!  YAY!! I love hearing that. 

It was a fun baking challenge for the month and I would probably take on baking these yummy goodies again.  

I did see someone advise to not push the chocolate chip cookie dough ball down into the cupcake, instead just letting it rest on the top of the cupcake batter and let it settle on it's own.  Trust me, they are speaking the truth.  I did push one down, just because I wasn't sure if it was too much batter for the cookie dough.  That cupcake caved in slightly.   My mom and I joked about it, she finally took one for the team and ate it herself.  Go, Mom, Go!!

Let us know if you make these cupcakes and how they turned out for you.  We love feedback from our followers if they are trying out the recipes that we are doing ourselves. 

Til next month, Happy Baking!!