As summer’s warmth gives way to the crisp cool of autumn, we thought we’d share what our Good Bitches are baking this season.

While ingredients like chocolate, caramel and vanilla are seldom out of circulation (fingers crossed), quintessentially autumn produce is starting to appear on supermarket shelves and (for those with a green thumb) ripening in home gardens. ’Tis the season for apples, blueberries, feijoas, melon, nectarines, passionfruit, peaches, pears, persimmons and plums, to name a few.

Here’s a round-up of some of the scrumptious seasonal baking we’ve seen so far this autumn.

Photos, left to right:

1. GBB Wellington – Julia’s Feijoa and cream sponge cake
2. GBB Nelson – Abby’s cinnamon peach bread (blood peaches from garden) and anzac biscuits
3. GBB Hamilton – Chrissie’s passionfruit cake (passionfruit from garden)
4. GBB North shore - Jennifer’s plum and raspberry slice 
5. GBB Queenstown & Otago – Hinano’s almond and nectarine loaves
6. GBB Invercargill – Jackie’s double chocolate zucchini muffins and lolly cake
7. GBB Whanganui – Emma’s lemon & blueberry muffins and apricot fudge slice 
8. GBB Dunedin – Sharon’s passionfruit melting moments and gingerbread
9. GBB Ōtautahi/Christchurch – Stephanie’s carrot cake
10. GBB Wellington – Belinda’s apple coffee cake 
11. GBB Gisborne - Helen’s apricot and almond upside down cake 
12. GBB Hamilton - Amy’s lime Louise slice 

What are you baking this season?