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

Welcome to HerBakingLab!

My 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!

Big Crumb Rhubarb Coffee Cake

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

Perfect Peach Pie + BYE LSAT!

Pumpkin Angel Food Cake with Cream Cheese Glaze

Late summer rye galette

Everyday cake – Blackberry Ricotta Cake

Scone obsession

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

Matcha Christmas Wreath Shortbread Cookie

Fresh Fig Salted Fudgy Brownie

Orange Cardamom Yogurt Loaf Cake

Granola Biscotti – when afternoon coffee meets breakfast

Korvapuusti – Finnish Cinnamon Rolls

Crumpets – recipe and how to eat them like a pro

Best British Earl Grey Tea Shortbread

Bake Offs and Challenges

Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Bake Off

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

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

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

Book Larder Bake Off Winning Recipe – Open Faced Victoria Sandwich

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

Browse Recipes

Browse 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.

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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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