What are you baking?

[bimble]

A croquembouche.

seriously? (I just googled that, it looks completely ridiculous in a good way)

 

[Saffy]

ooh I'd like that right now please!

It was gorgeous!
I made this chocolate orange cake last week for my brother's birthday too.

 

[danny la rouge]

seriously? (I just googled that, it looks completely ridiculous in a good way)

No, of course not. I only know what it is from bake off.

I make more homely fare: banana tea bread, lemon drizzle cake, scones, tattie scones, soda scones.

 

[bimble]

Oddly relieved by this news, but not quite sure why.

 

[antimata]

i havnt baked in a while because all i tend to eat is cake.

im not saying thats a bad thing just a little habit forming.

i do however have a new to me gingernut recipe im very keen to have a go at.

all the cakes look and no doubt are delicious.....

 

[Biddlybee]

Oddly relieved by this news, but not quite sure why.

Because who the fuck makes a croquembouche at home (or ever)

 

[Biddlybee]

It was gorgeous!
I made this chocolate orange cake last week for my brother's birthday too.
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oooh, what are those round the top, they look too big to be maltesers.

 

[Saffy]

They're Aero bubbles.
My poor brother has problems with his mouth and these are much softer than Maltesers. I do make a gorgeous Maltesers cake though which has Horlicks in the sponge mix, I'm thinking of making that for my daughter's 18th birthday cake next week.

 

[Biddlybee]

Can you adopt me please Saffy?

Just for my birthday

 

[Saffy]

 

[Rebelda]

Granola if it comes out nice I'll never buy it again

 

[BoatieBird]

Summer fruit drizzle cake
Using homegrown blueberries & raspberries.
(re)discovered a bottle of spiced blackberry vodka in the back of a cupboard last night that I made last autumn so I'm going to use a bit of that in the drizzle in place of the citrus juice.

 

[mango5]

Because who the fuck makes a croquembouche at home (or ever)

 

[mrs quoad]

Because who the fuck makes a croquembouche at home (or ever)

I've made quite a few.

They're not hard. IMO. They're just very repetitive. If you can make one profiterole, you can make 200. The difficult (?) bit is constricting a sensible (and reasonably greaseproof) cone to drop the fuckers into / mould them with. (I'd definitely go for long and thin in future - if there's enough chocolate welding there, the stability should be fine. And short squat ones really don't look very great in comparison.) Oh. Getting the "bottom" of the cone reasonably flat / straight is a pretty important part of things, too

They're not particularly expensive, either - iirc, the main cost is basically the White chocolate welding. (About 800g-1kg of the stuff, last time I made one).

 

[kittyP]

Summer fruit drizzle cake
Using homegrown blueberries & raspberries.
(re)discovered a bottle of spiced blackberry vodka in the back of a cupboard last night that I made last autumn so I'm going to use a bit of that in the drizzle in place of the citrus juice.

I'm going to make blackberry and rosemary gin tomorrow with the blackberries I picked in Kent on Thursday

 

[Biddlybee]

You don't count, you do baking magic

 

[campanula]

Many apples to use...so frangipane flan today

 

[Nebulous.]

I baked up some delicous corn bread muffins earlier.

 

[Saffy]

A chocolate and orange cake with chocolate ganache for my daughter's 18th birthday tomorrow. It's a bit hot for chocolate, it's currently melting.

 

[Rebelda]

Wow!

 

[Biddlybee]

A chocolate and orange cake with chocolate ganache for my daughter's 18th birthday tomorrow. It's a bit hot for chocolate, it's currently melting.
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Are those chunky KitKat fingers?

 

[Saffy]

Lol yes!
I'm out of action at the moment and my mum went shopping for me and bought them by mistake. I didn't have the heart to say anything.

 

[Biddlybee]

It works quite well imo

 

[BoatieBird]

Wow Saffy, that looks amazing
Love the chocolate button flowers. Simple but really effective.

 

[Saffy]

It really is the easiest cake to make, have got lots of sparklers for it too.
I hope someone makes me a cake like this for my birthday.

 

[danny la rouge]

A chocolate and orange cake with chocolate ganache for my daughter's 18th birthday tomorrow. It's a bit hot for chocolate, it's currently melting.
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Oh my god. Your daughter's going to love that!

 

[mrs quoad]

 

[RubyToogood]

...

OK go on then I'll bite, why so much bread?

 

[Biddlybee]

A course?

 

[mango5]

Wow