What are you baking?

[polly]

plum vodka.

That's what slivovitz is, i think, with spices and sugar added

 

[wtfftw]

I made a savoury broccoli cake and my spring form died.

 

[wtfftw]

That's what slivovitz is, i think, with spices and sugar added

sounds excellent.

 

[Biddlybee]

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....

Slivovitz sounds lush! mango5 used my leftover damsons to make damson gin curd, it was delicious.

Have you got a big freezer? I freeze mine.

 

[Biddlybee]

baking as endurance sport. *sideline cheer*

^ this. Good luck missus, you can do it!

 

[Rebelda]

Thanks dairy free is done, I'll ice it tonight. Gluten and dairy free is in the oven. Must excise careful separation. Just the three tiered monster to go.

 

[Rebelda]

Also *raises hand* for polly's plum stuff.

 

[polly]

Have you got a big freezer? I freeze mine.

No, tiny and full of iceberg

Tart sounds delicious!

Fucking hell Rebelda! Good luck

 

[Biddlybee]

Today I've made rocky road, white chocolate cornflake cakes and dark chocolate cornflake cakes.

 

[RubyToogood]

This is how many plums I got from my crazy, overgrown tree over two days. My freezer is already full of plums! Any ideas what I could make with them please, urban bakers?

View attachment 90516

There's this which I've posted about a million times before: Delia Smith - Plum and Cinnamon Oat Slices
It's somewhere between flapjack and crumble.

 

[polly]

There's this which I've posted about a million times before: Delia Smith - Plum and Cinnamon Oat Slices
It's somewhere between flapjack and crumble.

Oh that looks brilliant! Thank you

 

[mrs quoad]

Bus.

Is bus.

Is cake also.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Birthday cake for son (just turned 17 - still *duck fan* ).
Head went wrong although he pointed out that it is EXACTLY how he used to draw them

 

[Biddlybee]

17? Piss off

Really?!

 

[sheothebudworths]

REALLY!

 

[sheothebudworths]

Erm - I should maybe say that he didn't ask for a duck cake - I just did it cos I knew it was to be displayed in front of 30 of his friends

And it went with the t-shirt I got him...

' ' <-- him

 

[Biddlybee]

 

[Rebelda]

Oh for fuck's sake. I forgot to take a picture of the fucking cake

 

[Biddlybee]

Nooooooooo. Someone might've eh.

 

[polly]

Ohhhh REBELDAAAAAAAAA Yes, someone must have. Glad to see you survived, anyway

 

[mrs quoad]

Friend went on a baking course some time back. Now produces astounding loaves.

After seeing him last weekend (he brought three loaves), could no longer resist bannetons. This one is a whopper, unfortunately - 1.5kg. So even if I take half of it into work, won't get to make TOO many attempts each week.

Bit disappointed about the crack across the top (expansion should've been absorbed by the non-expanded slit visible on the side), but my lame just hasn't got the depth to properly handle a loaf this size.

I think

Though I'm probably just doing it wrong.

 

[polly]

Looks beautiful to a pleb like me mrs quoad

 

[mrs quoad]

Surprised by just how much I'm enjoying this banneton. Think this is the third 1.5kg loaf I've made in the last three days Beginning to get a bit hard to dispose of it all.

 

[polly]

I think plum season is finally over This year I have given away six large carrier bags full and made:

• a plum and almond cake
• plum gingerbread
• four plum crumbles
• four batches of plum and cinnamon squares
• three litres of slivovitz (actually my Czech friend sneered and said it wasn't slivovitz but plum flavoured vodka, but who the fuck cares, it smells like Christmas)
• a buttload of jam.

Amazingly, I still love plums

 

[RubyToogood]

I think plum season is finally over This year I have given away six large carrier bags full and made:

• a plum and almond cake
• plum gingerbread
• four plum crumbles
• four batches of plum and cinnamon squares
• three litres of slivovitz (actually my Czech friend sneered and said it wasn't slivovitz but plum flavoured vodka, but who the fuck cares, it smells like Christmas)
• a buttload of jam.

Amazingly, I still love plums

Anyone local with a similar problem might like to offload some plums (or other fruit) onto me... My jam cupboard is bare except for some overly shreddy marmalade

 

[Saffy]

Lemon and poppy seed drizzle cake.

 

[Greebo]

Bread pudding

 

[bi0boy]

Apple and blackberry crumbles with apples from the garden and weirdly large blackberries from a shop because I have like one bramble and the birds ate the fruit of it.

 

[Biddlybee]

View attachment 91649
Lemon and poppy seed drizzle cake.

ooh I'd like that right now please!

 

[danny la rouge]

A croquembouche.