What are you baking this week?

[jeral Profile]

Your pie, Suffs, looks far better than the ones in the recipe photo The 50:50 pastry is a good idea too as I find it seems to fit better taste-wise with veg pies.

[Suffs Profile]

Suffs, that looks fantastic!

Did you brush the top with the aqua faba in the end?

No, I didn't ... I used soaked/dried/boiled chickpeas rather than tinned, so wasn't sure if the liquid would be the same, and as we're by no means vegan and OH was having omelette for lunch I used a little eggwash. The pastry was made with lard and butter too.

Thanks folks ... I am very pleased with it myself

[liketocook Profile]

Fab looking pie suffs
I seldom make Yorkshire puddings and have been know to end up with flat pancakes but I was pleased with the ones I cooked yesterday (we like them well done)

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[Busybee Profile]

Excellent Yorkshire’s LTC.

I made a chocolate cake from the afternoon tea cookbook by the Bettys grandson. I didn’t have any buttermilk so subbed natural yogurt, it turned out as light as a feather. Very surprised as I used my food processor to cream the butter sugar and eggs, I usually use either hand or hand held small mixer. Didn’t have any chocolate to make buttercream icing so sandwiched it with a mixture of raspberry and strawberry jam. As a cobbled together kind of thing it turned out remarkably well!

BB

[KeenCook2 Profile]

Excellent Yorkshire’s LTC.

I made a chocolate cake from the afternoon tea cookbook by the Bettys grandson. I didn’t have any buttermilk so subbed natural yogurt, it turned out as light as a feather. Very surprised as I used my food processor to cream the butter sugar and eggs, I usually use either hand or hand held small mixer. Didn’t have any chocolate to make buttercream icing so sandwiched it with a mixture of raspberry and strawberry jam. As a cobbled together kind of thing it turned out remarkably well!

BB

That's good to know, BB, I've always avoided using the magimix to do that. Did you start with soft butter?

[Busybee Profile]

Not really, maybe 10 minutes out of the fridge - but I did cut it up into quite small chunks.

I was surprised that it worked out so well.

BB

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Yorkies look great ltc - as do the kitchen tiles which seem to be the same as mone or very similar

Cake looks good too BB

[slimpersoninside Profile]

Excellent Yorkshire’s LTC.

I made a chocolate cake from the afternoon tea cookbook by the Bettys grandson. I didn’t have any buttermilk so subbed natural yogurt, it turned out as light as a feather. Very surprised as I used my food processor to cream the butter sugar and eggs, I usually use either hand or hand held small mixer. Didn’t have any chocolate to make buttercream icing so sandwiched it with a mixture of raspberry and strawberry jam. As a cobbled together kind of thing it turned out remarkably well!

BB

Looks good BB.

Is this the chocolate fudge cake?

Thanks.

[slimpersoninside Profile]

2 batches of flapjacks, 1 plain for us and the other chocolate chip for daughter.

[Busybee Profile]

Excellent Yorkshire’s LTC.

I made a chocolate cake from the afternoon tea cookbook by the Bettys grandson. I didn’t have any buttermilk so subbed natural yogurt, it turned out as light as a feather. Very surprised as I used my food processor to cream the butter sugar and eggs, I usually use either hand or hand held small mixer. Didn’t have any chocolate to make buttercream icing so sandwiched it with a mixture of raspberry and strawberry jam. As a cobbled together kind of thing it turned out remarkably well!

BB

Looks good BB.

Is this the chocolate fudge cake?

Thanks.

No, just the standard chocolate cake on page 198

BB

[KeenCook2 Profile]

Tomato and courgette tart, using a sheet of ready-rolled puff pastry.
It's loosely based on an Ottolenghi recipe: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... ottolenghi

[liketocook Profile]

Some lovely looking bakes folks
Sue - we must share the same excellent taste in tiles

[Earthmaiden Profile]

Just looking back at the most recent pics - and at the tiles! All very nice. The Yorkies look tasty, as does the cake and very inviting tomato tart.

I have only relatively recently got an electric hand mixer. I used to be happy to make cakes by hand but when I got a food processor over 20 years ago was under the impression they would replace mixers and it has mixed many lovely cakes for me.

It saddens me when modern TV chefs give the impression that nothing can be made without some kind of gadget. It must put a lot of young would-be cooks off.

The only thing I've made lately is scones with GD last week as I didn't have any bread for lunch and they can be rustled up so quickly and GD likes rubbing in and cutting out.

[slimpersoninside Profile]

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Looks good BB.

Is this the chocolate fudge cake?

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No, just the standard chocolate cake on page 198

BB[/quote]
I don't have the book☹, just happened to find the Choc Fudge on-line.

[aero280 Profile]

Well, I have made a cake for OH's birthday on Sunday. It has to be simple as I don't have much time to keep it secret. I baked it last evening while she was occupied with the Harrow Philharmonic Chorus "Zoom rehearsal", but there was a baking smell around, so she may have guessed.

Fortunately she has "had" to go out to a funeral and I have managed to get the icing done and the cake hidden. I'll try and do the piping later when she is involved in a Zoom meeting or something.

It's basically the Mary Berry simnel cake without the marzipan. Then a marzipan wrap and a thin white icing glaze.

No photos because we share a photo cloud store and all our photos go to a common pool...

[Busybee Profile]

I’m sure it will be much appreciated Aero.

BB

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I'm glad you did aero! I think she'll be thrilled!

[aero280 Profile]

I thought that I could decorate a cake. But obviously I'm out of practice.

I will blame my tools. The Lakeland silicone icing bag is useless. The nozzle pops out of the end when you up the pressure...

[jeral Profile]

aero280, I must confess to cheating and using one of those plastic syringes for blob squirls, chain shells and for writing words. They're a pain to fill and you have to be quick before the icing dries out and they don't hold much, but even so they make icing much easier if not doing a shed load.

TBH I think the obvious effort you've made will be considered far more valuable than a perfect finish, plus you can dine out on describing the trials and tribulations of this second covid-year cake for years to come "You' can't imagine how much trouble I went to just to get the flour." <-Lay it on thicker than the icing

[aero280 Profile]

The discussion of the problems will be an essential part!!

I've done secret baking for OH several times before, but this time it was tricky because she has been stuck in the house. Normally she is out a lot, with her singing and church stuff.

i would normally have most of Sunday, Monday evening, An hour on Tuesday morning, Wednesday lunchtime and Friday morning all to myself. But no chance of that this time.