If you're looking for me this weekend...

I'll be in the kitchen.

The itch to bake hit me hard this week, and I just haven't been able to find time to actually do something about it yet. My head is filled with ingredients and recipes and ideas, and with every day that goes by, the more I come up with. I just want to get into the kitchen and get all those familiar ingredients out and turn on my mixer. I find the physical act of baking very calming - there is just something about the concentration required and the measuring and stirring and the whirring of my mixer that soothes me. I've been in a little bit of a funk this week, and I'm pretty sure that a nice, long baking session is in order. Put ingredients in, get results out. It's an area that I have control over, when I feel like I don't have control over much else.

Good thing I have some free time this weekend. My kitchen is going to be filled with treats.

Here's what I'm thinking....

Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies

The combination of cranberry and the white chocolate chips makes my mouth water, and when I googled for a basic recipe to play off of, I found this one that includes oatmeal. Sounds good to me!

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Peach Bread

I've got a big bag of peaches that I got from a farmers' stand on our way back from the beach last weekend, and I need to do something with them! I was originally thinking peach cobbler, but peach bread sounds even better today.

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Peach Upside Down Cake

I love pineapple upside down cake, and this sounds like a delicious variation. A little vanilla ice cream on the side? Perfection.

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Any other suggestions? Requests? If I make it, you're free to come eat it... C & I certainly can't shouldn't eat all these sweets ourselves! I have a feeling my office mates are going to be very happy come Monday, because whatever I make will most likely get brought in for them. I'm awesome like that. Ha!