What are you baking?
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polly
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Oh blimey. Do you have links or recipes please??
I'm very proud of my 6 yo girl, who all on her own, apart from help with measurements, made: chocolate chip rock cakes, marmalade gingerbread (a bit too fucking nice, especially with tooth butter
) and some quite drinkable limeade (her own recipe) 
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
What is tooth butter Polly?
Blondies were the Guardian recipe someone posted a few pages back (edit - it was you!), just with chopped up & frozen bounty bars instead because we had those but no nuts.
Brownies were this recipe, again with nuts substituted because we had none -
110g unsalted butter
120g dark chocolate
200g light muscovado sugar
100g caster sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
½ tsp salt
100g plain flour
25g cocoa powder
100g chopped pecan nuts
Melt chocolate & butter in a bowl over a pan of water. Stir in sugar, leave to cool.
Add vanilla and salt. Beat eggs in one at a time.
Sift and fold in flour & cocoa, then nuts.
Pour into lined or silicone tray, bake for 20-25 mins at 200°C (knife test should still be a bit gooey when you take them out - they'll cook & set more but end up rock hard if you cook them too long because of all the sugar).
Leave to cool completely before cutting into squares.
polly
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Ooh thanks for that
Butter you can see the imprint of your teeth in when you bite it. A fucking wedge of butter, basically
(I didn't mean to be obscure - I used the term here before and someone asked what it meant, but someone else knew it!)
BoatieBird
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Raspberry, cherry & white chocolate muffins.
BoatieBird
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The raspberry harvest is at its peak so I'm making this
Raspberry Bakewell cake
Raspberry Bakewell cake
This is both the first decorated cake I've ever made (Victoria sponge, basically) AND the last time in my life I'll f***ing well make my own "rollable" icing.
Edit: I also made some interesting learnings about chocolate decorating tubes, and how (not) to use them. See eyes for finer details of exactly what began to go wrong
Not sure what kind of icing I made.Looks great!
Did you make fondant icing? I've made some using marshmallows after seeing Nadia make it on GBBO and it worked really well.
I tried countless googles for rollable icing, and ended up with a delia recipe. That basically involved icing sugar, a wee bit of water, and colouring. After which its rolled out on cornflour.
It was a complete nightmare. Stuck to everything, was too wet, then too dry, then too wet...
Was expecting a half-iced owl, but *somehow* the sheet I managed to roll out had about 0.25mm excess all the way round.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Not a plum fan myself, but: crumbles, clafoutis, tarts (or tartes), jam, plum sauce, plum brandy, and probably lots of Ottolenghi-like poncy salads.
polly
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Thank you! I was thinking more of secret family recipes for cakes etc, but you have given me the idea of trying to make slivovitz
(I am struggling to understand a dislike of plums though)
and 2, it used up about six plums 
polly
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What sort of plums are they?
Got a couple of ideas, just have to do bedtime.
Farleigh, i think. Purple outside, light green inside
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
Tomorrow! There's only chaos and cake halves to snap at the moment
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
I am silly, the recipe I've prune torteFarleigh, i think. Purple outside, light green inside
They look quite like damsons though, worth a steep in gin?
polly
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I am silly, the recipe I've prune torte
They look quite like damsons though, worth a steep in gin?
Thanks anyway! I think they are damsons, having googled, but I'm going to try to make slivovitz to give as presents. But there are so fucking many of them
I'll probably be making jam but we're still eating last year's....
