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Have you ever seen so many croissants in your life??

One of the greatest things about being friends with other food bloggers (or maybe the greatest thing?) is the fact that we spontaneously get together to bake things, drink hot chocolate, and play bananagrams.

Kathy (@kathycancook) and I were talking about baked goods last week over Twitter, and soon enough we had made a #bakedate hashtag and were on our way to planning an afternoon of rolling croissant dough and sipping hot chocolate. Then I remembered Amanda (@kitchenmisfit) was going to be back from  her vacation by then, so we looped her into our baking excursion, and soon enough we had an afternoon planned of both croissants AND poptarts!

Are you jealous yet?

To make things even better, Kathy whipped up some homemade roasted red pepper and feta dip and garlic dip to go along with her homemade baked pita chips. I was in Heaven.

The night before our bake date, Kathy made a big mound of croissant dough, but saved the rolling until Amanda and I got there–and I was extremely excited to be rolling croissant dough! I have only ever eaten croissants in bakeries, and honestly, I had no idea how they were made. Kathy showed me the proper technique, and before we knew it, we had croissants coming out of our ears. We made both regular triangular croissants with a hint of sugar and salt. We also made chocolate stuffed croissant squares.

If I were a midget, I would build myself a house inside of this croissant.

Believe me. I was in a flaky pastry buttery induced coma after eating all of these!

Oh dear reader, that’s not all.

Amanda came with a bag of ingredients to make homemade poptarts from the Flour bakery cookbook.

Have you  heard of Flour bakery? Have you been to it? I haven’t. But after eating these homemade poptarts, that bakery is the next weekend excursion for me. They were flaky, moist, decadent, and certainly not anything like the poptarts you had as a kid. Amanda made a cinnamon-sugar filling and glaze to go with them. They were just oozing with sugary buttery splendor :)

I am drooling all over again looking at these pictures, and you better be too! I don’t have either of the recipes to share with you today. So be on the lookout on Kathy’s blog for the croissants and Amanda’s blog for the poptarts! I’m dying to find out the recipes for those doughs, too ;)

Overall, what a wonderful way to spend a cloudy/rainy Sunday afternoon! I’m so happy to have met these two amazing food bloggers. Being a part of the Boston food blogger community certainly has nothing but perks to it :)