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There was discussion on plurk of baking. I am not typing recipes in commentboxes, and besides, I had most of these typed up, and the rest I'd been meaning to move off shreds of paper into digital form. A few are directly as my mom emailed me, hence some wide variation in phrasing between recipes. (I don't think I'd ever say to beat anything vigorously unless we're talking kinky fanfic here. ...and now watch this post lead someone in my family to find this journal due to recipe searching or something, because yeah, that'd be my luck.)

Other notes: unless noted, ingredients should be at room temperature, including eggs/milk/butter. (I added that to the first recipe but not the others.)

( basic yellow cake )

( turning basic yellow cake into Boston Cream Pie )

( lemon pound cake (if you make just one of these, make this one) )

( blueberry coffee cake )

( blueberry muffins )

( baking powder biscuits (the American sort of biscuit) )

( basic sugar cookies (the UK sort of biscuit) )

( a lovely light and not at all traditional zucchini bread )

( Russian Tea Biscuits, which are probably not at all Russian )