Baked anything tasty lately?

woodchuck

Made an apple crumble today! Hadn't made one since home ec many moons ago, but it was so easy. I had a spare cooking apple and wanted to bake something without using up any of our precious milk and egg supplies. Doesn't look like much, but tastes amazing

cefh17

A few more days of snow and I would have been the bread king :pac:

Stargazer7

cefh17 wrote: »

A few more days of snow and I would have been the bread king :pac:

That looks amazing.....can I ask a probably silly question? How did you get the spirals on the stop...and also get the flour to settle so nicely?

cefh17

Stargazer7 wrote: »

That looks amazing.....can I ask a probably silly question? How did you get the spirals on the stop...and also get the flour to settle so nicely?

Thanks, it's only the like 6th one I've made after a few hockey pucks! I googled the same questions not too long ago..

The flour rings you get with a Banneton, you let the dough prove smooth side down in it, and when you flip it right side up onto a baking tray it keeps the shape of the flour design!

Stargazer7

Baking course for the weekend in Dingle postponed

Had to get my fix somewhere...

Mystery Egg

Holiday in Madrid cancelled. Husband trapped over there and I'm snowed in. This is the result. Don't know what I'm gonna do with it all!

Dizzyblonde

Mystery Egg wrote: »

Holiday in Madrid cancelled. Husband trapped over there and I'm snowed in. This is the result. Don't know what I'm gonna do with it all!

Just tell us where you live and we'll help you to eat it!
Sorry about the holiday

Gloomtastic!

Mrs G! has excelled herself, once again, and made a Sticky Toffee Cake. I think I’m going to get a little bit larger today!

RacoonQueen

FYI Lily O'Briens doing 20% off this week with MUM20 - just restocked on baking buttons.

CastielJ

My absolute favorite thing to bake is pão de queijo cake (translates as "cheese bread"), which is a traditional brazilian food and it's really good!

Gloomtastic!

CastielJ wrote: »

My absolute favorite thing to bake is pão de queijo cake (translates as "cheese bread"), which is a traditional brazilian food and it's really good!

Olà! Recipe please?

Graces7

After a long absence from baking, made scones this week and they are delicious! It felt like coming home to have hands deep in flour again.

Shenshen

Coconut and jam cookies. I made them a bit too large, so didn't get as many as I thought. Very tasty, though

Gloomtastic!

A Porter Cake for my daughter’s school cake sale tomorrow.

StripedBoxers

Quick question for all you fabulous bakers: I'm looking to make a chocolate cake and have everything except for butter or oil or yoghurt.

Can it be done? I have flour, eggs, chocolate, baking powder, cocoa, baking powder, vanilla extract and a few other bits, but no butter, oil or yoghurt typically. I can't get to a shop so would appreciate any help at all with this!

rubadub

StripedBoxers wrote: »

Quick question for all you fabulous bakers: I'm looking to make a chocolate cake and have everything except for butter or oil or yoghurt.

Can it be done? I have flour, eggs, chocolate, baking powder, cocoa, baking powder, vanilla extract and a few other bits, but no butter, oil or yoghurt typically. I can't get to a shop so would appreciate any help at all with this!

You would want to post the recipe. Yogurt sounds odd and could likely be replaced. I would imagine you would need some sort of fat/oil/butter though. Otherwise you would want a specialised no fat recipe.

StripedBoxers

rubadub wrote: »

You would want to post the recipe. Yogurt sounds odd and could likely be replaced. I would imagine you would need some sort of fat/oil/butter though. Otherwise you would want a specialised no fat recipe.

I don't have a recipe, I meant to include in my post that I'm looking for a tried/tested one, sorry.:o

Staph

Here's a recipe for a yule log that has a fatless sponge. Although the icing uses loads of butter, you could probably find a different recipe for that.

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/yule-log

Decided I wanted to learn how to do a mirror glaze, turned out pretty well for a first try I think!

Cake is raspberry and white chocolate mousse on a biscuit base, covered with mirror glaze and topped with fresh raspberries and white chocolate curls.

JohnK

Any chance of a recipe piratequeen? It looks amazing!

JohnK

JohnK wrote: »

Any chance of a recipe piratequeen? It looks amazing!

I followed this recipe for the glaze, and the recipe for the mousse cake linked in that post. I subbed raspberries for strawberries in the cake because I thought strawberries might be too sweet alongside the glaze for my palette!

http://carinastewart.com/mirror-cake-recipe/

Leinster1980

Red velvet and cream cheese buttercream

Patsy167

Hi Everyone,

We've a bake sale coming up in work soon and I'm planning to bake something for the Savory category. Does anyone have ideas or experience on what would work well?

While we have a microwave in work, I'm a little worried that anything with puff pastry would be destroyed if it is reheated. I'm hoping to bake something that can be easily reheated.

So far I am thinking either mini quiches or cheese straws that I found online

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2413/quick-cheese-straws

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/8026/easy-mini-quiches.aspx

All suggestions or tips appreciated!

Rogueish

Sausage rolls! They are tasty hot or cold and homemade alway beat shop bought by a mile. Spread a bit of relish on the inside before you roll them up for the oven. Delish!

Sausage meat + finely chopped chorizo + red pepper relish
Or
Sausage meat + crumbled black pudding + grated apple + caramelised onion relish

Are two of the favourites in my house

ellejay

vol au vents maybe?
They microwave well, mushrooms cream sauce.

The big flat breakfast mushrooms, stuffed, topped with cheese, microwave well.
Bell peppers or Beef tomatoes stuffed with bolognaise sauce, microwave well.
(Roast at home in oven first)
Cornish Pasty's (SP) think they're shortcrust pastry and savoury mince. I bought them in a petrol station and microwaved at home, not bad!

Quiche, but you've mentioned that already.
Spanish Omlette maybe?
Jacket Potatoes?
Individual Meat Pies?

Sausage rolls always a winner!

That's all I can think of.

Patsy167

Rogueish wrote: »

Sausage rolls! They are tasty hot or cold and homemade alway beat shop bought by a mile. Spread a bit of relish on the inside before you roll them up for the oven. Delish!

Sausage meat + finely chopped chorizo + red pepper relish
Or
Sausage meat + crumbled black pudding + grated apple + caramelised onion relish

Are two of the favourites in my house

ellejay wrote: »

vol au vents maybe?
They microwave well, mushrooms cream sauce.

The big flat breakfast mushrooms, stuffed, topped with cheese, microwave well.
Bell peppers or Beef tomatoes stuffed with bolognaise sauce, microwave well.
(Roast at home in oven first)
Cornish Pasty's (SP) think they're shortcrust pastry and savoury mince. I bought them in a petrol station and microwaved at home, not bad!

Quiche, but you've mentioned that already.
Spanish Omlette maybe?
Jacket Potatoes?
Individual Meat Pies?

Sausage rolls always a winner!

That's all I can think of.

Thank you both! Some great suggestions there. I love the idea of the Sausage rolls. I could try a few different variations as they've a lot of common ingredients.

I'm tempted to try make jambons too.

Sauasage rolls and Jambons would be a perfect hangover cure!

Leinster1980

Patsy167 wrote: »

Hi Everyone,

We've a bake sale coming up in work soon and I'm planning to bake something for the Savory category. Does anyone have ideas or experience on what would work well?

While we have a microwave in work, I'm a little worried that anything with puff pastry would be destroyed if it is reheated. I'm hoping to bake something that can be easily reheated.

So far I am thinking either mini quiches or cheese straws that I found online

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2413/quick-cheese-straws

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/8026/easy-mini-quiches.aspx

All suggestions or tips appreciated!

Would you make sausage rolls? They wouldn’t have to be reheated

rubadub

Patsy167 wrote: »

We've a bake sale coming up in work soon and I'm planning to bake something for the Savory category.

While we have a microwave in work, I'm a little worried that anything with puff pastry would be destroyed if it is reheated.

Is this a sort of coffee morning, or lunch? when I hear "bake sale" I expect people to be taking stuff home rather than eating there.

If you have, or can get your hands on, an airfryer they are totally ideal for reheating stuff like pastry, while a microwave can often ruin it as you say. An airfryer would want to be well cleaned so your pastries are not tasting of chicken nuggets & chips!

If stuff is being eaten at the sale then others might appreciate an airfryer being there too. As a microwave can easily ruin food, especially as so many use them so badly. You could email around, a non-baker could even bring one in as "doing their bit", and politely stress that it must be clean.

Patsy167 wrote: »

Sauasage rolls and Jambons would be a perfect hangover cure!

:pac: That reminds me of my younger days, a ravenous group of us leaving a house party on a Saturday or Sunday morning in a residential area with no shops nearby, we happened across (invaded!) a bake sale in some sort of school or community centre and bought them out of it! All these bemused middle aged women, some concerned at the heads on us, some delighted at the sales, we were in & out like a swarm of locusts.

Patsy167

rubadub wrote: »

Is this a sort of coffee morning, or lunch? when I hear "bake sale" I expect people to be taking stuff home rather than eating there.

If you have, or can get your hands on, an airfryer they are totally ideal for reheating stuff like pastry, while a microwave can often ruin it as you say. An airfryer would want to be well cleaned so your pastries are not tasting of chicken nuggets & chips!

If stuff is being eaten at the sale then others might appreciate an airfryer being there too. As a microwave can easily ruin food, especially as so many use them so badly. You could email around, a non-baker could even bring one in as "doing their bit", and politely stress that it must be clean.


:pac: That reminds me of my younger days, a ravenous group of us leaving a house party on a Saturday or Sunday morning in a residential area with no shops nearby, we happened across (invaded!) a bake sale in some sort of school or community centre and bought them out of it! All these bemused middle aged women, some concerned at the heads on us, some delighted at the sales, we were in & out like a swarm of locusts.

Thanks for the suggestions. The bake sale will be on in the morning in work so everyone will be eating it there. Airfryer is a good shout for reheating the sausage rolls

Graces7

You are all making me powerful hungry!