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Buttermilk Pound Cake and Why It’s Part of My Grieving Process
I was 19 when my mom suddenly passed away. One day she didn’t feel well and a week or so later she was gone. I was in the middle of finals in the spring semester of my sophomore year of college. No one wanted to “worry” me so I got the filtered version of events as it was all happening. And then I was too shocked to ask questions. The point is, she left and the grief came. Her wake was on her birthday. And a couple of weeks later I was nearly inconsolable on Mother’s Day. April and May are kind of…not my favorite months. I don’t know if…
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Levain Bakery Copycat Recipe Showdown
The Premise *UPDATE 10/5/20* I remade the Bravetart dough and rebaked the top 4 cookies in order to accurately rerank them Pre-quarantine my partner and I were watching Cupcake Jemma’s “NYC cookie” video and they off-handedly remarked that we should roundup all the copycat Levain Bakery recipes and try them all. You can’t just say things like that and not expect me to take it seriously so I got to work gathering 7 recipes and created a spreadsheet of all the main ingredients (flours, sugars, butter, eggs, chocolate, and walnuts). I also added the number of cookies, the size of the cookie dough balls (if stated), chill time, oven temperature…
