Organise a Dessert and Baking Collection
Desserts and baking are among the most widely saved categories across Qwikdish cookbooks, across dozens of separate users.
Baking is the kind of cooking that most rewards a good collection, because you repeat recipes and small adjustments compound.
The valuable part is not the recipe. It is your version of it after three attempts, which only exists if you wrote it down.
10 recipes to start from
Each one opens as a recipe page here, with the ingredients and timings, and credits the creator who published it.
01
Mocha Pie
andianne.com · 1 day · makes 10
Made with cookie crumbs, semisweet baker's chocolate and instant coffee granules. 1 day, makes 10, 13 ingredients.
02
BA's Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
bonappetit.com · 30 min · makes 16
Made with semisweet chocolate chips. 30 min, makes 16, 10 ingredients.
03
Classic White Cake
cakemehometonight.com · 1h 15m · makes 12
Made with sour cream and buttermilk. 1h 15m, makes 12, 11 ingredients.
04
Pecan Bars
cakemehometonight.com · 2h 30m · makes 9
Made with light corn syrup and pecans. 2h 30m, makes 9, 10 ingredients.
05
Peach Fritters
cambreabakes.com · 3h 15m · makes 8
Made with cubed peaches, cinnamon and instant yeast. 3h 15m, makes 8, 19 ingredients.
06
Mini Chocolate Cake
eatwithclarity.com · 55 min · makes 8
Made with milk of choice, hot brewed coffee and cream cheese. 55 min, makes 8, 16 ingredients.
07
Fudgy Brownie Bites
eatwithclarity.com · 25 min · makes 24
Made with semi sweet chocolate chips and corn starch. 25 min, makes 24, 10 ingredients.
08
Lazy Day Cake
funmoneymom.com · 40 min · makes 8
Store-cupboard ingredients only. 40 min, makes 8, 8 ingredients.
09
Paleo Cherry Pie Bars
jenneatsgoood.com · 40 min · makes 9
Made with maple syrup and frozen pitted cherries. 40 min, makes 9, 10 ingredients.
10
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
jenneatsgoood.com · 25 min · makes 12
Made with egg lightly beaten, pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice. 25 min, makes 12, 9 ingredients.
What makes baking different to organise
- Weights beat volumes, and a saved recipe is only useful if it keeps the grams the original published.
- You bake the same things at different quantities, so the original yield matters as the thing you scale from.
- Storage and freezing instructions usually sit outside the recipe card on a blog, which means they are the first thing lost when you save.
- A step skipped in baking cannot be recovered, which is the strongest case for cooking from one large step at a time.
How to build it
- Save at the yield as published, then scale from it rather than re-saving a doubled version.
- Copy the storage and make-ahead note into your own notes when you save.
- Record the adjustment you made. By the third bake it is worth more than the recipe.
- Keep a separate tag for the ones you bake for other people; they are a different shortlist.
Frequently asked questions
Do saved baking recipes keep gram weights?
Yes. A saved recipe keeps the quantities as the original published them, so a recipe written in grams stays in grams.
Where should I record changes to a baking recipe?
In the notes on the saved recipe, not in your head. The adjustment is the thing you forget first and the thing that makes your version better than the original.