What are you baking?

[sojourner]

No pics, but I made my very first fruitcake (in a loaf tin) at the weekend, using sultanas, raisins (cos 'mixed' fruit always involves peel, which then involves a fuckton of UPF ingredients which I've spent the year trying to avoid!), glace cherries, a dsp of over-set bramble jelly, sweet mixed spice, eggs, butter, SR flour and soft light brown sugar.

I'm delighted with it. Incredibly tasty, easy to make. Will be making this regularly now.

 

[Epona]

No pics, but I made my very first fruitcake (in a loaf tin) at the weekend, using sultanas, raisins (cos 'mixed' fruit always involves peel, which then involves a fuckton of UPF ingredients which I've spent the year trying to avoid!), glace cherries, a dsp of over-set bramble jelly, sweet mixed spice, eggs, butter, SR flour and soft light brown sugar.

I'm delighted with it. Incredibly tasty, easy to make. Will be making this regularly now.

I love fruit cakes! I should probably start thinking about Xmas cake soon
Lighter ones are lovely too of course.

 

[danny la rouge]

No pics, but I made my very first fruitcake (in a loaf tin) at the weekend, using sultanas, raisins (cos 'mixed' fruit always involves peel, which then involves a fuckton of UPF ingredients which I've spent the year trying to avoid!), glace cherries, a dsp of over-set bramble jelly, sweet mixed spice, eggs, butter, SR flour and soft light brown sugar.

I'm delighted with it. Incredibly tasty, easy to make. Will be making this regularly now.

Recipe! It’s sounds great. (I get migraines from orange peel, so I’m delighted to avoid it).

 

[sojourner]

Recipe! It’s sounds great. (I get migraines from orange peel, so I’m delighted to avoid it).

Everyday Fruit Cake | Everyday Cooks

Everyday Fruit Cake is almost apologetically easy. Just weigh, stir and cook. For everyday eating, this fruit loaf cake is perfect - tasty, quick and easy.

everydaycooks.co.uk

She does mention 'mixed' fruit, but I bought separate bags of sultanas and raisins, having checked the ingredients and found they only contained the fruit and sunflower/similar seed oil, no nasties.

I don't have a mixer either, just used a spoon and bowl. Piece of piss to make, and gorgeous

 

[sojourner]

I love fruit cakes! I should probably start thinking about Xmas cake soon
Lighter ones are lovely too of course.

See, I have hated Xmas cake for years, but I can totally see me making my own now.

I'm gonna try making a date and walnut loaf cake next weekend

 

[RubyToogood]

Two savoury semolina cakes involving a lot of courgette and a vegan lemon and courgette cake.

I should have reduced the liquid in the savoury ones more than I did to allow for courgette juice.

I'd forgotten how delicious the lemon one is

 

[Saffy]

White chocolate and raspberry blondies.
They're a practice batch for my sister's birthday party. They fit the bill, so will make some more.

 

[zora]

Everyday Fruit Cake | Everyday Cooks

Everyday Fruit Cake is almost apologetically easy. Just weigh, stir and cook. For everyday eating, this fruit loaf cake is perfect - tasty, quick and easy.

everydaycooks.co.uk

She does mention 'mixed' fruit, but I bought separate bags of sultanas and raisins, having checked the ingredients and found they only contained the fruit and sunflower/similar seed oil, no nasties.

I don't have a mixer either, just used a spoon and bowl. Piece of piss to make, and gorgeous

Oh brilliant! I bought some mixed fruit a while ago with the intention of making a fruit cake, also my first ever one, but haven't attempted it yet.

The recipes I looked at at the time where all for "tea loaves", with the fruit soaked in tea, but with this one having been tried and tested and found to be tasty by you, I'll give this one a whirl.

 

[zora]

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White chocolate and raspberry blondies.
They're a practice batch for my sister's birthday party. They fit the bill, so will make some more.

They look spectacular!

 

[BoatieBird]

Excellent drizzling skills there Saffy

 

[Saffy]

Excellent drizzling skills there Saffy

I melted the bars on the kettle, snipped a hole in the top of them and then squeezed the chcolate out. I'm a pretty lazy baker.

 

[iona]

Could you share the recipe for your lemon & courgette cake please RubyToogood ? Would be good to have a look before I start trying to tweak the one I used recently (which was pretty shit)

 

[RubyToogood]

Could you share the recipe for your lemon & courgette cake please RubyToogood ? Would be good to have a look before I start trying to tweak the one I used recently (which was pretty shit)

It's this one www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/vegan-courgette-cake

I added cardamom too and used soft light brown sugar. The icing recipe is very wrong. Start with 50g icing sugar and enough lemon juice to turn it into icing then see how you go. It only needs a light coating.

It is quite puddingy and prone to disintegrating.

 

[BoatieBird]

I melted the bars on the kettle, snipped a hole in the top of them and then squeezed the chcolate out. I'm a pretty lazy baker.

That's not lazy, that's genius

 

[iona]

It's this one www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/vegan-courgette-cake

I added cardamom too and used soft light brown sugar. The icing recipe is very wrong. Start with 50g icing sugar and enough lemon juice to turn it into icing then see how you go. It only needs a light coating.

It is quite puddingy and prone to disintegrating.

Thank you! Mine was also quite puddingy. Gonna experiment with swapping the almonds for flour, squeezing the water out of the grated courgettes and putting lemon juice as well as zest in the batter next time, I think.

 

[muvva]

Cheese scones

 

[seeformiles]

Made a rhubarb crumble last week - and bloody lovely it was too

 

[iona]

Second attempt at the lemon, courgette and poppy seed cake. It's going in a thankyou hamper along with a load of veg for one of our neighbours, so won't get to see how it cuts or taste it, but it looks a lot more like what I was aiming for. Thought it was going to rise right out of the tin and all over the oven, mind!

Already done a standard lemon juice and caster (didn't have granulated) sugar drizzle, but I'll make a small amount of thin lemon glace icing to drizzle over the top too when it cools. If I had piping stuff or a syringe and it hadn't risen so perfectly flat on top, I was going to pipe a few blobs of lemon curd inside along the top too but I'll just give them a jar instead.

 

[sojourner]

Made a date and walnut loaf. Moist as fuck. Very nice but think I'll use whole pitted dates next time. Chopped ones disappeared in the cake,though the taste remained.

 

[RubyToogood]

Made a date and walnut loaf. Moist as fuck. Very nice but think I'll use whole pitted dates next time. Chopped ones disappeared in the cake,though the taste remained.

Oh yes, they dissolve. Sticky toffee pudding uses this fact to its advantage.

 

[sojourner]

Oh yes, they dissolve. Sticky toffee pudding uses this fact to its advantage.

Even if you use whole ones? Yeh, had a vague understanding re sticky toffee pudding.

 

[RubyToogood]

Even if you use whole ones? Yeh, had a vague understanding re sticky toffee pudding.

Hm not sure. I think for STP you actually heat the dates in liquid so it's more purposeful dissolving.

 

[Epona]

I don't have much of a sweet tooth but all this talk of STP is making me want some!

 

[sojourner]

Hm not sure. I think for STP you actually heat the dates in liquid so it's more purposeful dissolving.

Ok cheers, well I can only give it a go, see what happens. Plan to bake cherry scones first though.

 

[sojourner]

Couldn't resist making another delish fruit loaf.

 

[danny la rouge]

Everyday Fruit Cake | Everyday Cooks

Everyday Fruit Cake is almost apologetically easy. Just weigh, stir and cook. For everyday eating, this fruit loaf cake is perfect - tasty, quick and easy.

everydaycooks.co.uk

She does mention 'mixed' fruit, but I bought separate bags of sultanas and raisins, having checked the ingredients and found they only contained the fruit and sunflower/similar seed oil, no nasties.

I don't have a mixer either, just used a spoon and bowl. Piece of piss to make, and gorgeous

Mrs LR has been away for a week with an old school friend. So I’m baking this for their return this evening. It’s in the oven now. Looking forward to it.

 

[danny la rouge]

It looks good. Not tasted it yet.

 

[sojourner]

I'm a bit obsessed with it now danny la rouge ,my new favourite cake. Hope you all enjoy it.

 

[iona]

Hmm, thinking of fruit cake - I might get the ingredients together now to start making xmas cakes next time it's cold and windy enough to have the oven on for ages.

 

[danny la rouge]

Fruit evenly distributed, nice and moist, not heavy. A very good cake. I used sultanas, raisins and cherries. I subbed in some crushed walnuts.