Talida Bakes

The matcha cake from the other day? Surprisingly good. Now, I don’t intentionally downplay my desserts, but there were a couple of things that made me nervous about this cake.

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If you had Monday observed for Columbus Day (lucky you), you may (or may not) know that today, October 12, was the original Columbus Day which also happens to be my birthday!

I wanted to make my own birthday cake this year, so that’s exactly what I did.

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Nothing says “Thank You” better like a cookie. Or a handmade card, but those aren’t as sweet or chewy. I baked these cookies to thank some dear friends who helped Tim and me enjoy a great snowboarding trip to VT back in February. They graciously lent us all the gear we needed, and two generous friends even let us keep the boots and board for future seasons! Sure, winter happened a while ago, but I just got around to baking these cookies because I tend to be late like that.

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Hello friends of old and of new! It’s about time this happened. I feel like this relaunch has taken me ages to complete. And thing is, it’s still not done. But, while I finish migrating all my old posts from Blogger to Wordpress, I want to share the new look with y’all. I’m excited to start fresh with this site, so while I finish the post migration, please check out all my old posts at talidabakes.blogspot.com.

And until then, I’ll share an all-time favorite cookie recipe of mine:

Guess what, y’all? Last Saturday, NYC raised $4644 for Peace Winds America/Japan in our Bake Sale for Japan! And the Bake Sales across the nation have raised over $120,000! I wasn’t as involved as I wish I could have been, but I hope my shortbread cookies helped raise a tiny sum towards this awesome amount. Another BIG thank you goes out to Lillian from Sweets by Sillianah and Celia from Cookbook Archaeology for coordinating a wonderfully run bake sale.