What are you baking?

[zora]

Wow!!! That looks utterly fit, and properly professional!

 

[Callie]

Frankenlamingtons

 

[Epona]

What makes it a "Franken..." ? Or is it just a Lamington baked for Halloween revelry? (Which is fine!)

You can tell I haven't had my tea yet, am being a food/recipe pest on multiple threads tonight

 

[friedaweed]

Got a new sourdough starter on the go. Just 1 day into a 3 day prove and already the dough is like chewy on a slipper

 

[Callie]

What makes it a "Franken..." ? Or is it just a Lamington baked for Halloween revelry? (Which is fine!)

You can tell I haven't had my tea yet, am being a food/recipe pest on multiple threads tonight

It's the blimmin state of them that makes them Franken-

They took ages, they disintegrated when I tried to dunk them in the chocolate icing and I had my other half who is from NZ telling me the correct way to make them (which wasn't what I was doing)

They tasted nice though...jam and cream in the middle.

 

[Orang Utan]

Made my first cheesecake yesterday too:

 

[clicker]

A very lemony lemon drizzle.

 

[seeformiles]

I’ve got a German-style spiced apple cake in the oven

 

[seeformiles]

I’ve just made some oven baked onion bhajis for an event tomorrow night - they taste pretty darn good considering they haven’t been deep-fried

 

[sojourner]

Recipe please seeformiles ?

 

[Saffy]

I made my Christmas pudding the other weekend steamed it in the slow cooker but I'm not making a Christmas cake this year. It's only me that eats it.
Instead, I'm going to make a Yule log with chestnut puree and a 'festive' carrot cake.

 

[seeformiles]

Recipe please seeformiles ?

Despite not being deep-fried, these bhajis are surprisingly tasty and are both healthier and totally vegan. I've taken them to several parties and they all disappear very quickly - with even confirmed omnivores scoffing the down like there's no tomorrow.

Ingredients

3 large onions (chopped "thin and stringy")
1 tsp dried chilli powder (or half a dozen fresh chillies - chopped)
4 Tbsp Gram Flour
2 tsp ground coriander seed
1 tsp ground cumin seed
1 tbsp Nigella (Black Onion) seed
Handful of fresh coriander (finely chopped)
1 heaped tsp Turmeric
1 Tbsp Tomato Puree
1 tsp sea salt
1 Tbsp Ginger paste (or finely chopped fresh ginger)
2 Tbsp Lemon juice
2-3 tbsp water

Method

1) Fry onions in 3 tbsp veg oil until transluscent (6-10 minutes)
2) Put all other ingredients in a bowl and mix together (adding water as required to achieve a sticky consistency)
3) Add the fried onions to the mixture and mix thoroughly
4) Leave in the fridge for 30 mins
5) Preheat the oven to 200C
6) Take 2 baking trays cover with greaseproof paper.
7) Place a tbsp of veg oil on each tray and spread across the greaseproof paper on each tray with a spatula.
8) Place heaped tsps of the bhaji mixture on to the prepared baking trays.
9) Bake in oven for 15-20 mins checking after 15 mins. When the tops of the bhajis are starting to char then that's the sign to take them out.

 

[sojourner]

Brill, thanks!

 

[existentialist]

Not exactly baking, but I've just rebottled a batch of January's marmalade for Christmas gifts...

 

[Rebelda]

An apple and brandy cake, but I've just dropped 500ml oil on the kitchen floor so maybe not

 

[kittyP]

An apple and brandy cake, but I've just dropped 500ml oil on the kitchen floor so maybe not

Oh crumbs!
(((Rebelda)))

 

[cesare]

An apple and brandy cake, but I've just dropped 500ml oil on the kitchen floor so maybe not

Quick, quick, soak it up with some porridge oats and put it on top, sorted.

 

[Rebelda]

Gross

Kitchen roll, bought more oil, smells good. No idea until it gets cut though, not a recipe I've made before AND I tinkered with it

 

[cesare]

Gross

Kitchen roll, bought more oil, smells good. No idea until it gets cut though, not a recipe I've made before AND I tinkered with it

I dropped the Christmas turkey on the floor one year and chased it round until I caught it and served it. Might have stretched the 30 second rule that year but no-one got ill

I bet your cake is immense

 

[Biddlybee]

So my starter is taking too long to wake up and I don't think it'll bubble up before tomorrow

Anyone got a decent yeast bread recipe they could share?

 

[Epona]

So my starter is taking too long to wake up and I don't think it'll bubble up before tomorrow

Anyone got a decent yeast bread recipe they could share?

This is a basic one, but I always added a little olive oil into it, and I also preferred slightly higher hydration too, but this is a good starting point.

Classic white loaf recipe | BBC Good Food

Once you've mastered this basic loaf, the bread-making world's your oyster, from BBC Good Food.

www.bbcgoodfood.com

 

[existentialist]

Not exactly baking, but here's the start of 2023's marmalade making...

 

[May Kasahara]

Shark cookies!

 

[existentialist]

Shark cookies!

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"These aren't just shark cookies: they're HAMMERHEAD shark cookies"

 

[Biddlybee]

Shark cookies!

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WANT!

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Galette des rois with a trinket inside. My dad got it and got to wear the crown (epiphany cake)

 

[moose]

Shark cookies!

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Expression on bottom hammerhead is brilliant. He knows his fate.

 

[existentialist]

The finished product. Photobombed by bunnies.

 

[Epona]

The finished product. Photobombed by bunnies.

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How have you still got Lindor left? We're nearly into the 2nd week of January FFS!

 

[Artaxerxes]

Shark cookies!

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Love these