Keeping Cozy with Katie & Bean

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Hi everyone! Welcome to my new blog! I’m just an almost-30-year-old who wants to share what I’m baking, reading and pictures of my cat Coffee Bean each month! I haven’t figured out if I’ll be sharing weekly, or monthly yet, but you can also find me on Instagram at @beanwithabook! On there I will post more regularly, and also let you know when I make a blog post!

This week I am currently reading The Wife Upstairs! It’s been a really intense read so far! This book is giving me The Last Mrs. Parrish vibes, so if you read that book and liked it, you might enjoy this one too! And Vice Versa! This book is also a modern take on the classic Jane Eyre (but I admit, I’ve never read that one…so I’ll just add it onto my never ending tbr-pile). Side note – did anyone keep a running tab on how often they saw the word ’tilting’?? Just curious…

Also, this week I started what I hope to be a New Year’s resolution for 2022 of weekly baking! For my first week of baking (and since it’s a week into December) I found a recipe for the Christmas Sugar Cookies! This recipe called for almost 4 cups of flour (but after trying it, I recommend 3 cups). I’m also just getting back into baking, so I forgot how to best put sprinkles on them (I recommend putting sprinkles on a plate and dipping the raw cookies into the sprinkles before putting them in the oven)! I had just sprinkled a pinch onto each cookie, so that’s why they didn’t turn out as well!