Weeknight Baking: Recipes to Fit Your Schedule by Michelle Lopez

  • Classic pound cake (page 55)

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    • Categories: Cakes, large; Dessert; Cooking ahead
    • Ingredients: all-purpose flour; butter; sugar; eggs
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  • Choose-your-own pumpkin spice bread

    • Emily Hope on November 15, 2019

      We liked this quite a bit--very moist (verging on but not quite reaching greasy), and the flavor profile of the actually spicy pumpkin spice was great. Super easy to put together. However, we didn't finish the loaf, so that also says something... maybe too one-note?

  • Banana bread

    • Astrid5555 on November 24, 2019

      While this is a nice banana bread, this is not a special banana bread. However, I liked the way the author has you add the whole bananas to the batter and let them break up in the stand mixer instead of mashing them beforehand. Thus, perfect weeknight baking as promised!

    • Dannausc on February 22, 2020

      Good banana bread. Adding the whole bananas to the blender is a neat trick.

  • Snickerdoodles

    • Astrid5555 on December 14, 2019

      These are very good and quick to make snickerdoodles. Halved the dough and made one part with the classic cinnamon topping and one with the matcha topping also from this book, which we preferred (“matcha heaven”). The instructions tell you to use a 3-tablespoon cookie dough scoop to scoop the dough into balls. I used a much smaller one to scoop the dough and the cookies were big enough. Otherwise they would have been enormous I think.

  • Boxed-mix brownies, from scratch

    • laurenlangston on March 28, 2023

      Dead easy, super yummy, although "cool completely before cutting" are the instructions of a sadist.

    • Padthai on October 03, 2022

      Yummy! Easy to make and turned out great.

  • Chocolate chip cookies

    • Padthai on October 03, 2022

      Uses melted butter-no need to wait for butter at room temperature!

    • kshell on August 02, 2024

      4 stars because my kids loved them but 3 stars from me. Too sweet. But I am starting to suspect my tastes have just shifted in such a way that I am no longer satisfied by what is arguably my ideal-textured chocolate chip cookie. My past self would be so sad! But if I were making these again for just me I would drop the amount of chocolate, use extra bittersweet, and add some nuts. It would probably get 4 stars from me then.

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  • ISBN 10 1501189875
  • ISBN 13 9781501189876
  • Linked ISBNs
  • Published Oct 29 2019
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 320
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster

Publishers Text

Michelle Lopez—the wildly popular and critically acclaimed blogger behind Hummingbird High—teaches busy people how to make cookies, pies, cakes, and other treats, without spending hours in the kitchen.

If anyone knows how to balance a baking obsession with a demanding schedule, it’s Michelle Lopez. Over the past several years that she’s been running her blog Hummingbird High, Lopez has kept a crucial aspect of her life hidden from her readers: she has a full-time, extremely demanding job in the tech world. But she’s figured out how to have her cake and eat it too.

In Weeknight Baking, Lopez shares recipes for drool-worthy confections, along with charming stories and time-saving tips and tricks. From everyday favorites like “Almost No Mess Shortbread” and “Better-Than-Supernatural Fudge Brownies” to showstoppers like “a Modern Red Velvet Cake” and “Peanut Butter Pretzel Pie” (it’s vegan!), she reveals the secrets to baking on a schedule.

With rigorously tested recipes, productivity hacks, and gorgeous photographs, this book is destined to become a busy baker’s go-to. Finally, dessert can be a part of every everyday meal!

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