A plate piled high with dark brown biscuits containing chunks of chocolate and topped with bright white flecks of salt.
A classic sharer for the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social offices today: browned butter chocolate chip biscuits with flakey sea salt. Crispy on the edges and soft in the middle (strangely like the paper I’m supposed to be revising). #poliskybakes
A plate of sliced roast beef, with crispy roast potatoes and caramelised carrots. Green veg sits underneath the beef.
A glass bowl from the side reveals layers of sponge cake, custard, orange fruit, and whipped coconut cream. A cocoa dusted tiramisu dessert is in the background.
Easter lunch: dry brined roast beef with horseradish; roast potatoes; mustard and maple carrots; spring greens; fennel, apple, and chicory salad. Lemon curd, mandarin, and coconut trifle, tiramisu. #poliskycooks #poliskybakes
A golden brown cake with purple slices of plum and rhubarb glazed with more jam baked into the top.
Plum and rhubarb almond cake, rhubarb glaze #poliskybakes
A mound of over two dozen deeply brown banana bread biscuits on a grey plate. Each of them are crispy and wrinkly around the edges which shows how they spread, and each has a generous pinch of white flakey sea salt on top.
Imagine your favourite banana bread with chocolate chips: warm and soft on the inside, crisp and caramel toasted on the outside, gently spiced with cinnamon and cloves throughout. Now put that in biscuit format. #poliskybakes
Three golden brown cookies on a grey plate. Crunchy white crystals of salt on top of dark chocolate chunks that have softly melted into the surface.
A classic for today’s @sotonpolitics.bsky.social seminar: browned butter chocolate chip cookies. Crunchy on the edges, soft in the middle, salty finish (just like my latest working paper, pls be kind) #poliskybakes
A scoop of tiramisu on a dark plate next to a larger dish, with a light dusting of dark brown cocoa powder on both.
Tiramisu, extra Marsala #poliskybakes
A deep golden brown cake in a ridged baking tray with paper. Flakes of toasted almonds are scattered randomly across the top.
Torta di pere / pear cake #poliskybakes
Five white sandwich biscuits arranged in a diagonal row on a dark plate, showing a cross section. A small spoonful of blood orange curd placed next to the biscuits to show the creamy filling.
For this week’s @sotonpolitics.bsky.social seminar, we’ve got alfajores (Latin American cornflour sandwich biscuits) filled with blood orange curd #poliskybakes
Three squares of almond bars with golden flakes of almond on top, arranged on a dark grey plate and taken from above in a symmetrical manner.
Three squares of almond bars with chunks of golden pear and flaked almonds on top. The photo is taken from the side to show the crispy base and height of the filling inside.
This week’s @sotonpolitics.bsky.social seminar treat: Pear and panela frangipane bars, almond shortbread crust, vanilla syrup #poliskybakes
A golden yellow loaf cake on a rectangular tray, with a syrupy glaze and small flecks of green herbs across the top
Lemon polenta cake, honey and thyme syrup #poliskybakes
A circular golden brown tart with flakes of almond on top
A slice of warm tart showing layers of purple jam and yellow almond cream, with a brown crust and roasted almonds on top
Starting 2026 as I intend to carry on. Bakewell tart: sour plum and vanilla jam, almond frangipane, shortcrust pastry #poliskybakes
Excellent and I love the height! #poliskybakes
Three blocks of wrapped dough stacked on top of one another, with a smiley face in permanent marker visible
Let the holiday #poliskybakes begin… Any guesses as to what these will become?
A plate of golden spiced soft biscuits cut into star and figured shapes with a light crackly lemon glaze. A festive decorated tree is out of focus in the background.
The final @sotonpolitics.bsky.social seminar of term is brought to you by @matthiasdilling.bsky.social @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social and lots of lebkuchen because *waves hands at holidays* #poliskybakes
Sadly baked goods don’t travel well digitally. Alas no #poliskybakes for these attendees!
A stack of tender and golden rectangular biscuits on a white plate with the background out of focus. Chunks of chocolate and nuts are visible from the side.
Today’s @sotonpolitics.bsky.social seminar will include these vegan birthday biscuit bars: dark chocolate, pecan, sea salt. #poliskybakes
Three golden brown biscuits on a grey plate. Each of them have chunks of pecan on top, with crosshatch patterns baked into the top of each one.
Today is the first @sotonpolitics.bsky.social seminar of the term, which means colleagues are getting these honey and peanut butter biscuits with mixed spice, pecan, and flakey sea salt! An autumn mix of sweet and salty, just like my last paper’s Reviewer 1 and Reviewer 2. #poliskybakes
A rectangular loaf with red and purple fruits throughout, and a crumbly topping.
Blackberry and cherry crumble cake #poliskybakes
Four golden squares of cake on a grey plate, with red strawberry and rhubarb fruit
Tall slices of red strawberry and rhubarb shortbread, viewed from the side to show layers of fruit and cake
Strawberry rhubarb shortbread bars - a vegan taste of summer #poliskybakes
A bun cut in half with a thick layer of yellow butter in between. The top is shiny with a fruit glaze.
A colourful plate of roast meat and vegetables on a grey plate, with a shiny gravy drizzled around the edge.
Easter lunch: slow-roasted dry-brined lamb shoulder with confit garlic and rosemary; goose fat roasties; cumin carrots; miso mustard parsnips; herby kale; red wine gravy. #poliskycooks
Tropical hot cross buns with papaya, pineapple, mango, Marsala-soaked sultanas, mixed spice #poliskybakes
Four squares of puffed rice treats arranged in a neat pattern on a grey plate. Black sesame seeds sprinkled throughout.
Black sesame and marshmallow puffed rice squares #poliskybakes #poliskycooks
A deep brown pecan pie with a light golden pastry crust, from above. The ridges on the pecan halves are all turned upward and slightly shiny with a sugary glaze, with flakes of sea salt sprinkled across the top.
Brown butter pecan pie, flakey sea salt #poliskycooks #poliskybakes
Sheet of chocolate cookies
Sheet of chocolate cookies
Brownie cookies on a snow day #poliskycooks #poliskybakes
Nice! #poliskybakes
A bunch of small cinnamon rolls in a spring form pan
A bunch of small cinnamon rolls after they have been taken out of the ring in which they were baked
Cinnamon rolls slathered in a cream cheese frosting
A side view of cinnamon rolls covered in cream cheese frosting
Made some cinnamon rolls #PoliSkyBakes
Yum! #poliskybakes
