What are you baking?

[mrs quoad]

Trying the same basic cake, only as orange, vanilla & dark chocolate

 

[mrs quoad]

Looks a bit dense here, but it isn't!

Amazingly floaty light, and very agreeably moist.

May have to make more of these!

 

[Biddlybee]

do you eat a cake a day?

 

[mrs quoad]

do you eat a cake a day?

We seem to've - somehow - got through 3/4 of a cake between Sunday and lunchtime today

We didn't quite finish it (didn't quite finish it), but I really really wanted to make a new one

 

[5t3IIa]

I had a huge baking cock-up last night. Made some flapjacks with choc-chunks and lots of lemon zest while listening to Just A Minute from Mumbai and bunged them in the oven. Trouble is, while whipping a tea towel off the oven door handle I'd managed to turn the heat up to about 220° so they were roundly fucked after 40 minutes Managed to scrap a bit of non-charcoal innards out and it was quite yummy but Not Quite The Same, as you can imagine

I'll do them with orange zest next time

 

[May Kasahara]

mango, orange and carrot muffins yesterday
cheese scones today

both well nice, incidentally.

 

[mrs quoad]

I would admit that I'd baked a 'blueberry, blackberry and strawberry' cake this avo, using Innocent smoothie in the place of orange juice / zest. And I'd also admit that it tasted remarkably like banana cake.

Only I thought it'd been three days since I baked that orange and chocolate cake. So I might not admit it until tomorrow.

I'm anticipating that it'll turn out to be lush, though. And, perhaps, banana-ey.

e2a: in fact, I might go and have another slice of tomorrowcake

 

[Greebo]

spelt & wholemeal loaves with caraway & cumin, once they've finished proving

 

[Espresso]

I made your cake, mrs quoad. Very good indeed. Thanks for that.
Might have a slice now.

 

[Biddlybee]

chocolate banana muffins

 

[Biddlybee]

they're not too bad

 

[crustychick]

quoady - this recipe (wot I made on Saturday) is quite similar to your cake but with a bit of a twist... it is one of my favourite cakes of all time! It's from Leith's Vegetarian Bible

Lemon & Poppy Seed Cake

140g butter, plus extra for greasing​

140g caster sugar​

grated zest of 1 lemon​

2 eggs​

140g flour mixed with 1/2 tsp baking powder (or actually SR flour - you just can't get it here in Germany)​

30g poppy seeds​

110ml milk​

For the topping:​

2 tbsp icing sugar​

juice of 1 lemon​

Method:​

1. Pre-heat oven to 180C. Grease a 900g/2lb loaf tin with butter and line the base with greased greaseproof paper.​

2. Put the butter, sugar and lemon zest into a mixing bowl and beat until light and fluffy.​

3. Break the eggs into a bowl and whisk together with a fork. Gradually beat into the creamed mixture a little at a time. Sift in the flour & baking powder and add the poppy seeds. Carefully fold into the mixture, adding enough milk to give a soft dropping consis​

tency. Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and spread flat. Bake in the centre of the preheated oven for 40 minutes until golden-brown and firm to the touch.​

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4. Mix the icing sugar with the lemon juice. Price the top of the cake with a fork and pour the juice mixture over the cake while still warm. Leave to cool for 15 minutes, then turn out and leave to cool completely on a wire rack. ​

enjoy! ​

 

[crustychick]

Also made on Saturday were these, also from Leith's:

Chocolate and Peanut Butter Brownies Recipe​

140g plain chocolate​

110g butter​

225g caster sugar​

170g plain flour​

1/2 tsp baking powder​

170g crunchy peanut butter​

3 eggs, beaten​

Method​

1. Preheat the oven to 170C/325F. Line a 20cm/8in square tin with non-stick baking paper. ​

2. Melt the chocolate, butter and sugar together in a heatproof bowl set over, not in, a pan of simmering water​

3. Sift the flour and baking powder together into a large bowl. ​

4. Mix the peanut butter into the chocolate mixture. ​

5. Make a well in the centre of the flour. Add the eggs and chocolate mixture and gradually draw in the flour, using a hand whisk to beat out any lumps. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and level out. ​

6. Bake in the centre of the preheated oven for 20 minutes until the crust has set on the top and a sharp knife inserted into the centre comes out slightly wet. Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the tin before cutting into squares. ​

NOTE: If these brownies are cooked for too long they become very dry.​

 

[crustychick]

I *wish* I had the foresight to take picture of these creations!

 

[Greebo]

Wholemeal & spelt loaves with coconut, caraway, and a bit of hemp flour.

 

[mrs quoad]

This is why we line our loaf tins:

Tastes lush, tbf (freshly milled pineapple + orange) but it's not looking particularly serviceable

 

[purenarcotic]

What is a 'freshly milled' pineapple.

 

[mrs quoad]

Blended. Was going into a smoothie (well, tbf, 'blended melon and pineapple with a couple of strawberries throw in, too) so before I added anything else, I removed a glass of the pineapple.

And made cake (or cake amalgam) with it.

 

[purenarcotic]

Ah, I see. I have never seen the term 'milled' to apply to blended fruit before. Interesting. Tasty looking cake though.

 

[mrs quoad]

Got a loaf proving made with what I now reckon is the best flour ever.

Or, at least, pretty good. Waitrose's stone milled oak smoked malted wholemeal flour.

More adjectives than you can shake a stick at, and all of them blates good 'uns.

 

[May Kasahara]

Not exactly baking, but I made a white chocolate cheesecake last night that is the fucking boss.

 

[crustychick]

we made a courgette and mushroom loaf on Saturday to take to a mate's new house (some kind of tradition in Germany apparently). it was a bit odd, but pretty tasty!

 

[mrs quoad]

Got some scones in the oven using a new recipe: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4622/classic-scones-with-jam-and-clotted-cream

Lemon and vanilla? Hmm.

Added 175g of Sainsbury's Armagnac soaked mixed fruit, too

 

[BoatieBird]

We made a hot cross bun loaf yesterday and it's lush. I toyed with the idea of adding some stem ginger as we've got some that needs using, but decided against it in the end.
I've got some rhubarb to use too so I think I'll make some kind of rhubarb and ginger cake today.

 

[mrs quoad]

Stunning, btw. Best scones I've made to date. Fluffy cloud light, and the Armagnac fruit, I'm slightly surprised to say, is stunning with the vanilla & lemon...

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I really wanted to do some baking for Easter - last year I made a Simnel Cake - but we have 5 easter eggs (Thanks Mr. QofG's!) and half a massive Christmas cake in the freezer so more cake/sweet things would be a bit surpless! I have defrosted some of the Christmas cake and it is rather nice

 

[Greebo]

Olive bread now, not cross buns later. Tomorrow at this rate.

 

[Greebo]

The not cross buns which should have been done last night. Due out in the next 2 minutes.

 

[mrs quoad]

More scones Beautiful little buggers

 

[mrs quoad]

OH YES omnimnomnomnom.