Santa Barbara really brought the best out of The Male Baker. Seriously, all that sun and all those wonderful people just made my baking mind tick! One day, I found some unopened Candy Cane Joe Joe’s (Trader Joe’s style Oreo’s from the States) left over from Christmas and decided to make cookies out of them. Instead of searching for a recipe online or in a baking book, I opted to use my memory bank and make these cookies from scratch. Crazy thing is that they turned out! I grabbed all sorts of ingredients from the pantry and threw in all different goodies including cocoa powder, dark chocolate chips, Candy Cane Joe Joe’s, kosher salt, and even some whole wheat flour.

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I just made a leap of faith. I made my first cookie recipe with NO WHITE FLOUR!

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Have you ever had a hard time coming up with an idea for what to bake? Have you ever twiddled your thumbs in the kitchen while thinking, “I want to bake so bad right now, but absolutely nothing is inspiring me?” This happened to me a few weeks ago, where I was at a complete loss of baking ideas. Instead of not baking and letting down all my friends and family in Santa Barbara, I opted to go to

The Male Baker Facebook page and ask my followers what I should bake next. It was an instant success! Within 10 minutes I had enough ideas for baked goods for the coming weeks! Thanks to all who commented on the post and a special thanks to Lauren Wong for the brilliant idea of baking maple bacon baked doughnut holes!  Read more