Today, we bring you love and affection for a renowned butter sculptor, complicated feelings about baking, and some pretty sweet recipes for Q4 2021.

The retirement of the Minnesota State Fair butter sculptor, per The StarTribune! Related: the Christopher Guest-ish movie Butter.

Andy Murray and the case of the stolen tennis shoes and wedding ring that were returned.

Dorie Greenspan's compelling argument for baking in a recent Garden & Gun interview.

Three baking cookbooks Erica loves: The Cake Bible, Cannelle Et Vanille: Nourishing, Gluten-Free Recipes for Every Meal and Mood, and The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book: Uncommon Recipes.

Some baking recipes we have up our sleeves: Claudia Roden's Orange and Almond Cake, Julia Turshen's Afternoon Cake, Smitten Kitchen Strawberry Summer Cake, Yotam Ottolenghi's Flourless Coconut Cake, Julia Child's Genoa Almond Cake / Pain de Gênes (page 78 here), Emily Luchetti's Ginger Cookies (and Emily Luchetti's Stareos), Ovenly's Salted Peanut Butter Cookies, Dorie Greenspan's 3-Ingredient Almond Crackle Cookies, skillet cookies (with Brutus Bakeshop Miso Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough—or perhaps the Real Simple's Flourless Chocolate Skillet Cake With Coffee Ice Cream take), NYT's Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Cake.

Have you made Butter Mochi? Tell us more.

Holiday recipes specifically: NYT's Bourbon Pecan Pie, Lidia Bastianich's Ricotta Cookies, Butter(nut) Balls, Heavenly Hash, Molly Yeh's Stollen Bars, Gourmet's Spoon Cookies, Lidia Bastianich's Pignoli Cookies (or Grossy Pelosi's).

Whatcha got cookin' over there? Let us know at 833-632-5463, [email protected], and/or @athingortwohq.

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