What are you baking?

[Rebelda]

Thanks lovely. I don't do the all in one either, but i don't weigh the eggs. Maybe will start. No baking powder?

I don't usually weigh them, but not having enough flour for the (Mary Berry) recipe meant I had to. I used what plain flour I had, about 190g, plus 2tsp of baking powder which brought it up to 200. It was a total fudge tbh because the recipe called for self raising

 

[mrs quoad]

Bought some rhubarb from a local farm shop today.

Had a tiny portion of crumble mix left over from a crumble earlier this week.

And the food processor out from making a raw root veg salad.

Rhubarb, ginger, bit of brown sugar, tiny bit of crumble topping.

And it's absolutely outstanding. Will have serious difficulties not eating it all

 

[mrs quoad]

Yeah.

All gone

Edit: I feel as if my teeth are bleeding.

 

[Orang Utan]

Rhubarb crumble is the best dessert ever. Was there custard?

 

[RubyToogood]

I don't know what I did but I think I killed my sourdough starter stone dead. I put some bread on to rise last night and it's doing a good impression of wallpaper paste. Not so much as a bubble.

 

[blairsh]

So baklava, dry run, looks alright but I don't think it'll be any good as I fucked up. Just waiting for syrup to cool a bit...

 

[Orang Utan]

So dry run, looks alright but I don't think it'll be any good as I fucked up. Just waiting for syrup to cool a bit...

Looks tasty, but what is it?

 

[blairsh]

ffs. edited.

 

[blairsh]

 

[mrs quoad]

Baklava is sth I've always sort of wanted to like, but have been unable to handle IRL.

 

[May Kasahara]

Made some biscuits for the kids to decorate, but am selfishly keeping half of them plain because they're so nice.

 

[Rebelda]

What flavour are they?

 

[May Kasahara]

Biscuit flavour Plain vanilla, because my kids turn their noses up at anything more exotic.

 

[mrs quoad]

Walnut and fig. W orange zest.

Want to try it. Started cutting it.

But it's *just* out of the oven, and it'll piss steam everywhere and be far less good generally if I don't wait.

But waiting = bedtime.

Aaaaa.

 

[Saffy]

What was it like?

 

[Rebelda]

Bara brith. Well, I'll bake it in the morning - I've just put the fruit to soak in tea overnight.

 

[Biddlybee]

One of my nan's favourites.

 

[May Kasahara]

Chocolate fudge cake for my niece's birthday. Sadly I forgot to take a picture before we cut it up, so here are a couple of 'after' shots.

 

[polly]

We had a fruit bowl full of black bananas so I thought I'd make muffins that people could have for breakfast and found a recipe online. Weird, I thought, it only has oatmeal, no flour but ignored myself and went ahead. Only after they'd been in the oven for 20 minutes did I spot the extra line (two cups of flour) in the recipe that I'd missed They were fucking delicious, but really, really oily (I used coconut oil). So I put them all into a bowl, added flour and am re-baking them in a loaf tin I reckon it might be the next big baking fad - twice baked muffins

 

[polly]

Nope, I don't think it's going to take off.

 

[BoatieBird]

Nope, I don't think it's going to take off.

Pics?

 

[polly]

Pics?

You can't really see much there - I've decided to pretend that I intended to make very, very moist breakfast bars and see if anyone is taken in/too polite to complain

 

[wtfftw]

I, for one, admire your perseverance.

 

[Rebelda]

Oooo are they treacley?

 

[polly]

I, for one, admire your perseverance.

Cheers

Oooo are they treacley?

Yeah, kind of. I used very dark sugar and there's dark chocolate chips and of course my specially aged bananas. Hence the perseverence - too much nice stuff to bin it. Still shite though, but then there's a lesson here. I'll stop talking about this now

 

[Rebelda]

So I finally baked that bara brith today it's lovely, and it was so easy. Small "doesn't like cooked fruit" so it's all for me

 

[mrs quoad]

Bought 1.2kg of stunning forced rhubarb this evening, and crumbled the fuck outta it w/ two gigantic bramleys, a fistful of currants, dose of ginger, and a slurp of maple syrup.

It is *fucking amazing*. I don't think I actually knew about forced rhubarb until today.

 

[mrs quoad]

Over half of that ^^^ has gone. Oops.

 

[Rebelda]

I still can't get crumble topping right. Anyone else do it with a dairy free sub?

 

[Orang Utan]

I still can't get crumble topping right. Anyone else do it with a dairy free sub?

my mum's old recipe works fine with margarine - although the recipe I have here calls apple crumble 'amy's crumb pie'!
1.5 lbs apples
2 oz butter/marge
6oz brown sugar
6oz flour