What are you baking?

[gentlegreen]

I may have to see if Aldi have any of those mixes left and cook them similarly ...

 

[moose]

Do you not have a normal oven?

 

[gentlegreen]

Yes - a fancy Panasonic combi.
I'm a bit peed off to be honest - wish I'd bought another turntable one now.

 

[moose]

Maybe the cake might be better in that. Or at least more cake-like

 

[gentlegreen]

It might be fun to try this goo in an ice cream maker.

 

[RubyToogood]

I tried the cake setting on my breadmaker once. Never again.

 

[fredfelt]

I'm not working many hours at the moment so I've been thinking about doing a 'Fresh bread Friday' where I bake, deliver and sell bread to the village once a week. Therefore I've been baking a few loves recently and been trying to perfect the simple white loaf.

The ones picture below have 5% strong brown flower added to the strong white flour - it improves the texture. The loaf on the left has a better defined shape on the top as I cut it just before baking - the other one was cut before it had a chance to rise.

The loaves weigh between 500 and 600 grams. If I do decide it's worth the bother (it's requires a lot of effort to bake large amounts of bread by hand) I was thinking of charging £2.50 a loaf.

 

[miss direct]

I'd really like to make a rainbow cake this year. Has anyone ever made one?

 

[fredfelt]

I may have to see if Aldi have any of those mixes left and cook them similarly ...

It's probably easier to bake a cake than you think. You'll almost certainly get more pleasure from making a cake yourself than using a mix - especially if you think about the battery eggs that would have probably been used in the mix.

 

[gentlegreen]

It was only an impulse buy to be honest.
I need to ease myself back nearer my vegan diet - so I'll see if I can recreate my old mega-fruit loaf recipe.

I think there was a peanut butter and coconut one too - such a shame it was pre-internet so I don't have it recorded anywhere.

 

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[miss direct]

I'm making hummingbird cupcakes (banana, pineapple and walnut) for Crafty Sunday.

 

[Lo Siento.]

I made Chocolate Krantz Cake the other day (my girlfriend gave me Jerusalem for Christmas, and it has a recipe).

Quite fun, you make a yeast cake (sort of briochey), roll it out, cover it in chocolate paste (chocolate, butter, icing sugar and cocoa powder), then sprinkle chopped pecan over it, roll it up in a roulade, cut it in half, then plait it back together again.

Fiddly. But I like fiddly.

 

[purenarcotic]

Where are the pictures.

 

[Lo Siento.]

Where are the pictures.

I didn't take any
It looked like this though

and I ended up with enough dough left over to make something similar with frangipan and raspberries inside instead of chocolate and pecan

 

[spanglechick]

how do you make frangipan? is it easy? i'm aware i could google, that, btw...

 

[Lo Siento.]

how do you make frangipan? is it easy? i'm aware i could google, that, btw...

very easy, you can buy almond flour (sometimes appears as almond meal or ground almond too) in the supermarket and, in essence, you just mix it with butter, egg and sugar (you can add other stuff like vanilla essence and vary the sugar to taste, some people put a little bit of regular flour in there too...)
(quantities are more or less sugar=butter=almond flour=50-60g per egg)

 

[Numbers]

Made some cinnamon and walnut bread this afternoon which my better half has said is the nicest bread she has ever had

 

[mango5]

golightly made this carrot and french bean pie at the weekend from a surprisingly good Dorling Kindersley vege cook book

 

[Lo Siento.]

My pasteis de nata, looking more or less like they're supposed to!

 

[UrbaneFox]

I was going to bake some hazelnut biscuits but 2 neighbours called and forced me to ply them with gin.

Result: No biscuits.

 

[Miss Caphat]

blondies (blonde brownies)

 

[RubyToogood]

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My pasteis de nata, looking more or less like they're supposed to!

What was the recipe and did they taste like they're supposed to?

 

[zoooo]

blondies (blonde brownies)

I looooooove them. I made Nigella's ones. Delicious.

 

[Miss Caphat]

I looooooove them. I made Nigella's ones. Delicious.

I have literally had about 16 of them at this point They are so good. I made mine with vanilla sugar. Need to get some ice cream and have them warm a la mode maybe with caramel sauce on top

 

[zoooo]

Oh my christ. I need to make Blondies again now.

I just made some cheese and spring onion scones. They use cream cheese instead of butter.
This is what they were supposed to look like...

This is what mine look like...

They still taste pretty nice though.

 

[Lo Siento.]

What was the recipe and did they taste like they're supposed to?

they did, recipe is this one, but obviously you can substitute the puff pastry faffing for ready made (I would next time!)...

 

[Lo Siento.]

Tarte Au Citron, something I've made a few times, each time finding something to screw up, but this time nailed it

 

[Miss Caphat]

made a strawberry kiwi fruit pie last night. It was nice...tart like strawberry rhubarb...but very, very runny. The warmed up filling was excellent this morning on a waffle with whipped cream

 

[BoatieBird]

I'm about to make some mint choc chip brownies (using mint matchmakers).
I don't think I've ever made brownies before, any tips?

I suspect the secret is getting the timing right so they are cooked to the right consistency.