09/04/2026
I’m back!! Well sort of. I have been out of the decorated cookie order game for a while now. I just ran out of time in my day trying to keep up with 4 little kids. While those have been on hiatus I am always still in the kitchen baking something and I have even jumped on the sourdough bandwagon this year. I have been brainstorming ways to show up on here again, just in a different way.
I am by no means a recipe developer but I love following recipes and I love cookbooks. It has been a goal of mine forever to bake my way through an entire book, to bake recipes that I may be a little scared of or use an ingredient I have never even purchased at the store (hello rhubarb!). While I won’t necessarily go in page order, the goal is make every single recipe of these 101 recipes. There are many dessert recipes but also some brunch and bread things too. I originally thought I could do it by the end of 2026 but then realized we are only 118 days away from the end of this year and we just know it’s not going to happen 😂 I’m not going to give myself a timeline but my goal is to make a few each week, sharing my journey all the way through (both the successes and fails). I am just a home baker and everything I have learned has been through reading and experimenting. My hope is also to share little baking tips, some of my favorite things I use in the kitchen, and fun ways to package and give your homemade treats to those you love.
My family of course wants to be in on this so the kids will be giving their reviews of each recipe, maybe even ranking them on a scale of 1-10. We’re just getting our feet warm with this first one so we’ll see where it takes us. He kept a tally that it took him 15 tries but Brooks rocked his first voiceover. If you’ve hung around this long to read this entire thing, thank you! I can’t wait to start this challenge and if I see you on a regular basis, you better believe you’ll be assigned some taste testing duties.
Thanks to Gracie Withers Photography for helping me learn the ropes of IG reels again 😘
Happy Friday friends!
-Lilly