My kids didn’t have school today so I went on a baking frenzy. I made gluten-free chocolate chip cookies and gluten-free brownies for the Bake Sale for Japan. I’m planning on dropping the baked goods off at Akasha Restaurant in Culver City in the morning.
I also made meringues, but not sure how they are yet. If they’re good, I’ll bring them too. And I made banana flan because we had really ripe bananas and sweetened condensed milk. I hope our guests tomorrow like bananas.
Here’s my day of baking in pictures. I left out shots of my messy kitchen and me in pajamas. You’re welcome.
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| Sticky gluten-free cookie dough |
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| Giant gluten-free chocolate chip cookies |
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| Gluten-free brownie wrapped and ready for sale |
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| Leftover brownies for the mom friends |
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| Look! I’m making caramel for the flan |
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| Doh! Something went terribly wrong |
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| Mixing the bananas and milks for flan |
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| Banana flan, caramel sauce to be added later |







