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Niciodată.

Heeee, it's time for another month of sugary treats roundup.

October has been a really busy month in the kitchen (especially the oven) and I haven't managed to take photos of  everything I baked. What is worse, I haven't managed to write down the recipes I'd like to keep either. Bad, bad, bad girl...

The month started off with a very very tasty Lemon Poppy Seed Bread. This one is definitely a keeper

It was fluffy and lemony and delicate. I used lime instead of lemon and 1/3 of the sugar quantity and it turned out great. A bit too large for my usual baking dish. Maybe next time I'll split the batter in two or halve the recipe.

Next followed an apple pie/cake.

heee :) pacman

I don't remember much about this one. Not even the site I found the recipe on. It was ok-ish, but I don't think I'll be making it again, the apples didn't shine through as much as I would have liked. I remember it was a fun recipe though, because I baked it on a baking sheet and not in a tray, and I shaped it by hand.

Next followed a multitude of pumpkin pies, breads and tarts. I only have photos of the pumpkin bread.

This bread, well..I would like to keep it, but I think I have to tweak the recipe a bit. It uses vegetable oil (olive oil) and I think this makes it a bit heavy. It also uses pumpkin purée, which is this autumn's greatest discovery. I am never going back to stewed pumpkin! The pumpkin purée made it very moist and cake-y, more cake-y than bread-y :) It was packed with spices and overall it was very, very tasty.

Neeext, we have the lovely pear tart I promised you! I made a tiny tart and a tinier galette. They were both delicious and fruity. I used very little sugar and instead let the fruit take centre stage. Which it did!

I used only two spices: a gentle sprinkle of cinnamon (no autumn cake without cinnamon, right? right!) and a button sized piece of ginger.

This one is a keeper and next time I'll try and arrange the pears nicely or make a lattice on top. For presentation purpose, of course!

And to finish off, a favourite of mine, which I always prefer warm and gooey and sticky:

Zucchini cake! Well, you can't really make better an already good recipe so this is pretty much as I told you about last autumn. The only thing I've changed since: replaced some of the flour with cocoa powder (because there's no such thing as too much cocoa, right? right!)

ha. ha. ha.

it could be I'm laughing at the irony of the situation, or that I'm laughing from all the sweet, sweet serotonin, but boy, I am laughing all the way from the plate, to my mouth and then to.mah.belly!

because it's aaaaaautumn, it's aaaaaautumn and we be baaaaaking, baking, bay-king!

• A lovely chocolate chip bananabread, tanananananah:

• A birthday carrot cake with ricotta - lemon - honey cream:

(only the pre-refrigeration session, because I forgot to photograph it later - too busy stuffing my face :)

• And today's apple walnut cake, with a warm cup of milk & coffee, bien sûr

what have you been up to?