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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 8h

Get a small saucepan. Fill it with water. Add cinnamon sticks, cloves, and a splash of vanilla extract. Let it simmer. Your home now smells like a Cottage Cakes kitchen and zero dough was sacrificed in the process.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 1d

Me listening to a podcast about unsolved art thefts while piping tiny roses onto lemon cupcakes for a gluten-free bridal shower. Balance.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 2d

Kids, don’t take up sports. Take up baking. Less running, more butter. Live to 60 wildly full of croissants and joy. Support your local Cottage Cakes baker and call it community service.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 3d

I think we should bring back grandma habits: tea at 3, baking something buttery, reading a paperback, wearing slippers with pride, and ordering coffee cake from a local Cottage Cakes baker like it’s a spiritual ritual.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 4d

Me watching Bake-Off: This fool ruined the lamination on the croissant dough, unforgivable.
Me baking at home: accidentally made 36 mini muffins because I didn’t read the part about yielding “two dozen.”#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 5d

Paul Hollywood: Your genoise lacks lift, the chocolate’s over-tempered, and your sugar sculpture is structurally unsound.
Me: Eating cold leftover pancakes with my hands directly over the sink like a raccoon. Completely valid.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 6d

I stopped going to weddings when I realized any Cottage Cakes baker will make you a wedding cake if you just ask. No waiting list. No plus ones. Just layers of buttercream and inner peace.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 7d

I had an egg white omelet for dinner. Then added yolks, flour, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, baking soda, and chocolate chips. Baked at 350. Dinner is now cookies. This is wellness.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 8d

I don't sugar coat anything. I'm not a bakery. But luckily, hundreds of amazing home bakers on Cottage Cakes are.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 9d

If a redhead opens a Cottage Cakes shop, does that make him a ginger bread man? Just trying to get clarity for marketing purposes.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 10d

Hot Girl Summer is canceled. Old Lady Spring is here: Bake-Off marathons, second cups of tea, floral cardigans, and ordering lemon drizzle cake from Cottage Cakes like it’s your full-time job.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 11d

Put a pan on the stove with water, vanilla extract, and a cinnamon stick. In ten minutes, your kitchen smells like a home bakery. In thirty, you’re scrolling Cottage Cakes plotting your next scone order. This is how they get you.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 12d

Me listening to a podcast about unsolved crimes and missing persons while piping floral buttercream onto a six-inch lemon lavender cake for a Cottage Cakes order. Balance.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 13d

Kids, skip the team sports. Take up baking. Burn a few scones, master the tempering of chocolate, retire early with a pie crust empire, and live to 60 really full and really happy.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 14d

I think we should all lean into grandma habits: tea at 3, slow walks, handwritten notes, cardigans with pockets, and baking cookies just because it’s Tuesday. Cottage Cakes is grandma-core, and we’re thriving.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 15d

Paul Hollywood: You've underbaked the dough, the layers aren’t laminated properly, and your custard split when you added the hot milk.
Me, baking at home: dropped my phone into the batter, still served it.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 16d

I stopped going to weddings when I realized you can walk into a good Cottage Cakes shop and order a custom wedding cake for no reason. Cheaper, less small talk, and you still get three tiers of almond sponge with raspberry jam.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 17d

I had an egg white omelet for dinner. Then I added yolks, brown sugar, flour, vanilla, chocolate chips, and baked cookies instead. Balanced diet.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 18d

I don't sugar coat anything. I'm not a bakery. I just sell through one on Cottage Cakes.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 19d

If a redhead opens a Cottage Cakes shop, does that make him a ginger bread man?#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 20d

Hot Girl Summer is canceled. Welcome to Old Lady Spring: mitten-knitting in between sourdough rises, Bake-Off reruns on loop, neighborhood gossip over tea, and a rotating stock of muffins from your favorite Cottage Cakes baker.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 21d

Get a small pan, fill it with water, toss in cinnamon sticks and a splash of vanilla extract. Let it simmer while you bake. Your home will smell like a Cottage Cakes popup shop and your neighbors will wonder when you're opening for business.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 22d

Me listening to a podcast about unsolved heists while making lemon curd cupcakes for my Cottage Cakes page. It’s called balance.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 23d

Kids, skip the gym. Take up baking. You'll build upper body strength kneading dough, learn math from measuring ingredients, and die at 60 really full and really happy.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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Cottage Cakes @cottagecakes.bsky.social · 24d

I think we should bring back grandma habits: tea at 3, baking something warm, reading a paperback in a sunlit chair, and chatting with your neighbor about pie crust instead of politics.#cooking #baking #recipe 🍜🍽️

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