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Three different Rhubarb Cakes I tried this spring

05/15/2019

As I’ve discovered the beauty of rhubarb this year, I cannot stop making rhubarb cakes. Here are the three different recipes I tried and my thoughts on them!

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Everyday cake – Blackberry Ricotta Cake

04/26/2019

Everyday cake – a cake that’s slightly sweetened, not overly oily, doesn’t have frosting/cream or even glaze and must be sustainable for you to eat without any guilt. This Blackberry Ricotta Cake is my perfect kind of everyday cake.

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Scone obsession

04/10/2019

My recent scone obsession leads me to find the perfect scone recipe. After 5 recipe testings, find out the perfect classic British scone and my favorite American Scone recipe!

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What I’ve been making lately + recent exciting news + a strawberry rhubarb compote recipe

03/14/2019

It’s almost spring in Seattle! I’ve been baking/making a lot of spring related things lately. See what I’ve been making + two exciting news + my favorite strawberry rhubarb compote recipe!

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Her Cookbook Club: Food52 Genius Desserts | Review & Recipe Test Photos

02/28/2019

A detailed review on Food52 Genius Desserts Cookbook by Kristen Miglore. Read more to see recipe taste test photos, my overall thoughts and more!

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Blood Orange Norwegian Pound Cake

02/01/2019

Give a twist to your classic pound cake and make it Valentine’s Day ready! Inspired by the natural beautifulness of blood oranges and let’s celebrate this time of the year together:)

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Copycat Trader Joe’s Pancake Bread Recipe, maybe even better!

01/23/2019

A copycat recipe of Trader Joe’s popular Pancake Bread. Disclaimer: it doesn’t taste 100% like the original one. It’s more moist and softer than TJ’s version. In other word, it tastes more like that pancake at the bottom of the stack – the one soaked up all the syrup and salted butter (AKA the best one).

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Honey Ricotta Dip – Like Cannoli Dip but Healthier!

01/19/2019

The healthier version of your favorite cannoli dip is coming! Any ricotta cheese lover will like this dip. Make it for your next party, or dip it straight out of the container for yourself. Either way, it’s delicious!

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My favorite King Arthur Flour Recipes – after 60 days of baking KAF recipes

01/09/2019

If you don’t know yet, I made 60 King Arthur Flour recipes in October and November last year (how come it’s already 2019?!). Here it comes a list of my favorite KAF recipes!

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Matcha Christmas Wreath Shortbread Cookie

12/20/2018

Matcha Christmas Wreath Shortbread Cookie. A festival,
Not too sweet,
Buttery,
Full of matcha flavor,
Perfect for gifting,
And different kind of holiday cookie!

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BIG NEWS + Serious Eats Homemade Bagel Recipe Report

12/10/2018

Some life updates and a big news in this post + Stella Parks homemade bagel recipe report on Serious Eats!

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The Complete List of 60 King Arthur Flour Recipes I tried in the past sixty days

12/01/2018

In the last sixty days, I challenged myself and baked 60 King Arthur Flour Recipes. Here is the complete list of all the KAF recipes I tried!

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Great Seattle Bagel-Off – Finding the best bagel in Seattle

09/29/2018

Moving to Seattle makes me realize I can’t take good bagels for granted anymore. I decided to find the best bagel in Seattle, before jumping to the conclusion of Seattle is a bagel desert. Here is everything you want to know about Seattle bagels!

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Unconventional Pumpkin & Purple Yam Mooncakes

09/19/2018

The Pumpkin & Purple Yam Mooncakes I made are definitely unconventional, but easy to make and much healthier than a traditional mooncake. Only 2 ingredients required for the purple yam one and 5 ingredients for the pumpkin mooncake!

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Her Cookbook Club: Molly On the Range | Review & Recipe Test Photos

09/14/2018

Unexpectedly, Molly On the Range became on of my most used cookbooks. Find out my review, recipes taste tests with photos and more!

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Book Larder Bake Off Winning Recipe – Open Faced Victoria Sandwich

09/05/2018

I WON THE GREAT BOOK LARDER BAKE-OFF! Here I’m sharing all the recipes I used and the whole process behind how to create my winning Open Faced Victoria Sandwich.

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BA’s Best #30daychallenge Recap – Reviews & Favorite Recipes

08/30/2018

Each day in August, I have made a recipe from BA’s Best – a collection of the best essential recipes from Bon Appetit. Here is a recap and review of all my favorite (and least) favorite recipes!

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Fresh Fig Salted Fudgy Brownie

08/23/2018

It’s FIG season! Inspired by Yossy Arefi’s fig chocolate cake from her book Sweeter Off the Vine, I created this gooey fresh fig salted fudgy brownie.

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Mini Overnight Whole Wheat Yeasted Waffles with Red Bean Filling

08/15/2018

Make my Mini Overnight Whole Wheat Yeasted Waffles with Red Bean Filling! If you like: Super easy to make, No effort,
Whole wheat, Delicious & healthy, Perfect back to school breakfast!

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Strawberry Shaved Ice + Summer in Seattle!

08/09/2018

Let me introduce you the perfect summer in a cup. Strawberry Shaved Ice. Sweet, refreshing, creamy from condensed milk & vanilla ice cream, soft from poached whole strawberries and crunchy from fresh sliced strawberries. Heaven.

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WHO IS SHE?

Queenie Lu

She is quiet, she is fun. She reads cookbooks like novels. Kitchen is her lab and baking is her therapy.

Welcome to HerBakingLab!

identiconMy name is Queenie, mom to little croissant, owner to Good Day Baking Co. and a law school 0L. This is the place I test recipes, share my thoughts, and experiment. Let's be (baking) lab buddies! Read More…

Favorite Recipes!

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Big Crumb Rhubarb Coffee Cake

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London Fog Chiffon Cake (and things I’ve learned so far from opening an online bakery)

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Perfect Peach Pie + BYE LSAT!

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Pumpkin Angel Food Cake with Cream Cheese Glaze

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Late summer rye galette

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Everyday cake – Blackberry Ricotta Cake

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Scone obsession

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Copycat Trader Joe’s Pancake Bread Recipe, maybe even better!

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Matcha Christmas Wreath Shortbread Cookie

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Fresh Fig Salted Fudgy Brownie

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Orange Cardamom Yogurt Loaf Cake

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Granola Biscotti – when afternoon coffee meets breakfast

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Korvapuusti – Finnish Cinnamon Rolls

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Crumpets – recipe and how to eat them like a pro

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Best British Earl Grey Tea Shortbread

Bake Offs and Challenges

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Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Bake Off

Best Nine

My favorite King Arthur Flour Recipes – after 60 days of baking KAF recipes

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The Complete List of 60 King Arthur Flour Recipes I tried in the past sixty days

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Great Seattle Bagel-Off – Finding the best bagel in Seattle

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Book Larder Bake Off Winning Recipe – Open Faced Victoria Sandwich

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BA’s Best #30daychallenge Recap – Reviews & Favorite Recipes

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🥮Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!中秋节快乐🎑 🥮Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!中秋节快乐🎑
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It’s the second biggest holiday in China (like Thanksgiving in the US) and it’s a day for family to reunion and gather. 🌕 It’s one of my favorite traditional Chinese holidays. 
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I can’t recall the last time I actually spent Mid-Autumn Festival with all of my family members. The last time I traveled back to China, it’s pre-Covid and little 🥐 was just 4-month-old. I haven’t seen my dad since then and I really really miss him. 😢
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Hope the situation will get better and I can soon hug my dad in person. 💛
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bake Off!! 🍪👑 ⁡ I’ Chocolate Chip Cookie Bake Off!! 🍪👑
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I’ve never liked CCC during my years living in the states but some magical moments happened and I am now fully converted (read the full story linked in bio!). 😂 
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Normally I’ll just head to @thepancakeprincess and pick a winner recipe from her bake off. But wait. There are THREE kinds of CCC bake off on her site and I have no idea what kind of chocolate chip cookie I like. 😨
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So I did my own Chocolate Chip Cookie Bake Off. I know the six CCC recipes I chose are distinctly different. It’s less a “find the best recipe” kind of bake off but more like a way for me to find out what kind of CCC I enjoy the most. 
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Head to the link in my bio and check out the post🥳 It only took me about six months to write this post (I blame little 🥐 for the procrastination🤪)
26🍰 I haven't posted anything in a long while. 26🍰
I haven't posted anything in a long while. TBH I didn't even feel like baking. The past few months have been a blur. Somehow I didn't have the energy to do anything. I severely underestimated how hard it is to single parent a toddler. During the pandemic of course. 
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I was living in a fog this whole year I guess. I am someone's mom, someone's wife, someone's daughter, someone's daughter in law and somehow I lost myself in all those roles. 
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This week, little 🥐 started daycare. He cried and I cried in the parking lot too. Tears for sadness, guilt, relief, and all sorts of mixed feelings that I don't have a word for. 
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But I also felt like a new woman. I finally can see the light through the fog. Now I don't have to be with little 🥐 24/7, I hope I can restore myself, piece by piece. 
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Thank you @deepseasugar for spoiling me with all the cakes. Cake helps. A lot. 
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Here's to a brighter 26🥂
Little 🥐 turned 2 this week! Still can’t beli Little 🥐 turned 2 this week! Still can’t believe how he grows so fast🥲On the brighter side, he can now be my official hand model!🤣

Brown butter banana bread recipe by @kalesuckz , which is one of 🥐’s favorite breakfast item🥰 I may or may not bought extra 🍌 to (im)patiently wait them to rippppppe and make @kalesuckz banana bread again!
You do you. I’m just here, admiring my morning c You do you. I’m just here, admiring my morning coffee situation☕️💕🍰

Big Crumb Rhubarb Coffee Cake is on the blog🤎Click the link in my bio to get the recipe! 
Happy weekend baking🥳
Double Chocolate Rye Cookie from @joannebchang Pas Double Chocolate Rye Cookie from @joannebchang Pastry Love🤎 Zoom in to see all (my intentionally) underbaked gooey mess. 

I’ve been wanting to post this picture for days and even thought about the caption to be “Moody”. But I’ve been pretty darn happy and calm lately and I’m tired of waiting for a moody day to post this🤣 Guess I can just never be as cool as my cookie idol @thaliaho 

But you should never wait to make this cookie! So rich. So indulgent. So satisfying. So GOOD. This double chocolate rye cookie, dare I say, is a better alternative to brownies for chocolate lovers. I used my favorite @valrhonausa CARAÏBE🍫& @kingarthurbaking organic rye flour🌾And sprinkled some @maldonsalt on top
✨New recipe on the blog!✨BIG CRUMB RHUBARB COF ✨New recipe on the blog!✨BIG CRUMB RHUBARB COFFEE CAKE💖

If you saw my Whidbey Island trip recap (saved in the story!), you knew I brought back fresh rhubarbs from a local farm stand as a souvenir🤣 As soon as I got home, I baked them into this Big Crumb Rhubarb Coffee Cake. 🥰 It’s everything I want for a perfect spring coffee cake.

It only calls for half stick of 🧈 for the cake batter, which results in a moist but not oily or heavy kind of coffee 🍰. It’s light enough to be breakfast but sweet enough to pair with your afternoon ☕️ The streusel topping creates some beautiful big crumbs, which we all know that’s what we actually want for coffee cakes🤪AND you do NOT need sour cream, buttermilk or any kind of special dairy and NO NEED for a mixer either. 

Get yourself some rhubarbs and bake my Big Crumb Rhubarb Coffee Cake this week! 💕 Recipe linked in bio😘
OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIE🍪   We’re going to OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIE🍪 

We’re going to Whidbey Island for a mini road trip tomorrow!! 🥳 First trip since the pandemic and let’s just say I’m so ready for it😷 But it’s also little croissant’s first overnight trip as a toddler... So let’s see how it’ll go🤣

I finally become the mom who carries a bag of homemade cookies around🥲These oatmeal raisin cookies (recipe from @nytcooking @clarkbar ) have been little 🥐’s favorite lately. I remembered I hated raisins as a child but little croissant eats all the raisins from his granola first😂 Oh well. Better than chocolate chips I guess? 

I’m going to steal a 🍪 while little croissant is napping now. Enjoy the rare full week of ☀️ next week! 💛
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