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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Uschi » Fri Dec 10, 2021 3:16 pm

Another marathon baker, Pat!!! Well done!

I have been baking about two kinds of biscuits every day this week and made several doughs that still await being cranked through the mincer or being cut out.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby KeenCook2 » Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:02 pm

I'm just baking this cake: https://www.christinascucina.com/apple- ... th-yogurt/

After 50 mins it's looking a bit anaemic, although seems to be cooked, so have put it back in for a bit longer. Hope it doesn't dry out too much ...

eta the pic after another 7 mins or so ....
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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Earthmaiden » Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:31 pm

It looks lovely. If the skewer came out clean when you tested it it should be fine! Don't forget that things are stylised for food photography!

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby KeenCook2 » Sat Dec 11, 2021 3:07 pm

Thanks, EM, I also realise that I probably used too much apple as it is also rather more like pudding than cake - but OH says it still tastes good! That could also explain why it didn't really brown, and the texture is quite definitely not cake-like.
I had reduced the quantities but forgot to use less apple, in fact may even have use too much as I just used 2 medium sized apples that weighed more than 300 g when I weighed a couple of similar apples afterwards.

Well, I'll just have to decide whether it's worth trying again and being a bit more careful next time!

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby aero280 » Sat Dec 11, 2021 6:35 pm

If I can finish sanding and painting the kitchen door, I think that this week will be spekulatius biscuits, and maybe, some stollen.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Earthmaiden » Sun Dec 12, 2021 6:09 pm

KeenCook2 wrote:I had reduced the quantities but forgot to use less apple,

Ah! That can make apple cake a bit over-moist!

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby scullion » Tue Dec 14, 2021 10:19 pm

while the moussaka is in the oven i've bunged in a pan of date and oat slices.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby aero280 » Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:00 pm

The kitchen door has been very slow going. A bit of a saga... So it's only this evening that the stollen will be started. Just waiting for the second coat of undercoat to dry. That gives me a 4 hour space to fill.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Stokey Sue » Sun Dec 26, 2021 3:09 pm

I wanted to make a gluten free Christmas cake/dessert, also some other restrictions on ingredients

I found Sky McAlpine's Flourless chocolate, chestnut & rosemary cake

https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/rec ... mary-cake/

Didn't actually fancy the rosemary and couldn't get any sweetened chestnut purée, so I used 2 x 200g sachets of plain + 100g icing sugar as suggested in the tips and added 2 tablespoons of rum as in my experience sweetened chestnut purée is a bit softer than the mixture I had, and I replaced the rosemary with a teaspoon of vanilla extract

Very good, definitely a cake and not the soft mousse you get with some chestnut & choc recipes, I might have slightly overbaked as I think my fan oven is a bit hot

Another thing I discovered, is that if I take little Tupperware pots to the refill shop I can weigh out the amount of cocoa or ground almonds required and not have those packets with 20g left in them hanging around.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Amyw » Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:27 pm

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Homemade croissant dough , rolled into spirals and filled with mincemeat .

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby ZeroCook » Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:47 pm

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Wow. Fantastic looking pastries, Amy! Which criossant dough recipe do you use or prefer?

That's a really interesting looking flourless cake, Stokey. Did you like it?
I think I'd have left out the rosemary too 8-)

My brioche roll dough sugar error ended up as panettone and very good it was too IISIM! I've never actually made a decent panettone - never did manage to get Dan Lepard's sour dough panettone to work - but this worked out well with kneaded in leftover brandy soaked raisins and sultanas, melted butter, added vanilla paste and a drop or two of almond extract.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby slimpersoninside » Tue Dec 28, 2021 10:22 pm

They both look good enough to eat! :yum :yum.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Gillthepainter » Wed Dec 29, 2021 5:28 pm

Nice one, Amy. Croissant dough isn't easy.

And a happy accident with the panettone-esque result there, Zero.
Again, not an easy thing to bake.
It looks delicious.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby ZeroCook » Fri Dec 31, 2021 9:29 am

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It is only -esque, Gill! It's really just brioche with raisins and much less butter. Would love to successfully make the proper, very involved version with starter and a gazillion steps but hey, easier just to buy - bolstered by my multiple failures with Dan Lepard's proper version :lol:
This amazing Italian pastrychef's version would be a huge challenge to pull off
https://www.greatitalianchefs.com/recipes/panettone-recipe

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby KeenCook2 » Tue Jan 04, 2022 7:32 pm

Pumpkin bread muffins, from a (n out-of date!) box of Trader Joe's mix.
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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby aero280 » Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:39 pm

We have been cutting down on food (a bit...) and the last bread bake I made too much dough :roll: , so I baked the loaf as well as two small loaves in some mini tins I have. The small loaves were a success. The right size for splitting between us with a bowl of soup.

So this time I made 4 of them in the tins I have and the rest was baked as rolls. It's a pale brown dough 5 parts white flour to 2 parts spelt.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby PatsyMFagan » Wed Jan 05, 2022 11:07 am

They look good Aero .... whenever I have used spelt flower, I have got a very solid dough. Perhaps I am simply using too much spelt, so will try your ratio next time. I am currently using the Wessex Mill 6 grain mix with great success :thumbsup

Flower ????? FLOUR :oops:

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby aero280 » Wed Jan 05, 2022 11:38 am

My bread seems to have become less dense recently. I’ve been using a lot more Ascorbic Acid than normally recommended. Most recipes say about a pinch. There’s probably a couple of grammes in that mix. It may just be coincidence though, I haven’t done any back to back tests.

With hindsight, I could have added some fruit to the rolls and turned them into teacakes.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby herbidacious » Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:43 pm

I have just prepared a dark, treacly marmalade bread and butter pudding, as suggested by Suffs a short while back.

I was considering doing a mincemeat one, as I have not used any of the mincemeat I made last year, but marmalade appealed more.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby KeenCook2 » Thu Jan 13, 2022 7:15 pm

yum, love the sound of that, herbi, I have some oat biscuits in the oven ....

ETA and here they are ...
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