Baked anything tasty lately?

Lisha

I’m on day 13 of isolation. I’m afraid to cook or bake for my husband aN d children.... Cant wait to be symptom free once I stop sleeping slll the time I’ll be baking... your posts are giving my life right now.

Gloomtastic!

Lisha wrote: »

I’m on day 13 of isolation. I’m afraid to cook or bake for my husband aN d children.... Cant wait to be symptom free once I stop sleeping slll the time I’ll be baking... your posts are giving my life right now.

Bless! Fingers crossed and all that.

Cheshire Cat

Wishing you a speedy recovery, Lisha!

Dizzyblonde

Feel better soon Lisha.

Runaways

Went for the most entry level basic I could and still screwed it up. The cake tin was meant to be 20cm. I only had a 24cm one.
So we got a Victoria flannel rather than a sponge
Loved doing it though. It’s like witchcraft or alchemy. It’s being eaten by my housemates though so I guess it doesn’t matter so much
I wanna keep up with this. Can only get better!

Gloomtastic!

Daughter made a Giant Jaffa Cake today. Tasted just like the real thing.



https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/giant-jaffa-cake.html

Markcheese

Runaways wrote: »

Went for the most entry level basic I could and still screwed it up. The cake tin was meant to be 20cm. I only had a 24cm one.
So we got a Victoria flannel rather than a sponge
Loved doing it though. It’s like witchcraft or alchemy. It’s being eaten by my housemates though so I guess it doesn’t matter so much
I wanna keep up with this. Can only get better!

Nothing wrong with that .... And as an added bonus you get more cream and jam as well as a "bigger" slice of cake ..

Runaways

Markcheese wrote: »

Nothing wrong with that .... And as an added bonus you get more cream and jam as well as a "bigger" slice of cake ..

That was my thinking too

Thanks!

rubadub

Runaways wrote: »

. The cake tin was meant to be 20cm. I only had a 24cm one.

the area is pi*radius*radius.

So though 20 & 24 sound reasonably close the ratio is (12*12)/(10*10), so 1.44, or in other words the 24cm tin is 44% bigger. This can be useful for scaling up recipes, I guess there are online calculators to do this. Also useful for figuring out which takeaway pizza is the best value!

Planet X

:pac::pac:

Michellenman

No actual baking but a dessert nonetheless!

Ferrero Rocher chilled cheesecake.

Seamai

Tonight's dinner, Maltese timpana, a puff pastry shell, filled with a pork and veal ragu, chicken livers, bacon, rigatoni, hard boiled egg, aubergine and parmesan, probably should have let it cool a bit before cutting into it, might have have held together a bit better but I was pretty happy for my first attempt. Definitely not for carb watchers.

tickingclock

Michellenman wrote: »

No actual baking but a dessert nonetheless!

Ferrero Rocher chilled cheesecake.

Please can you share recipie

Seamai

Michellenman wrote: »

No actual baking but a dessert nonetheless!

Ferrero Rocher chilled cheesecake.

I'll have the 2 if you don't mind.

Michellenman

I just kind of make it up based on a few recipes I’d seen online. I only needed to make 3 glasses and i couldn’t find a recipe for such a small quantity.

The below are approximates for the most part.

8 ferrero rocher sweets. (2 for the bases, 3 as decoration, 3 for the cheesecake)
6 biscuits (I used chocolate chip maryland cookies)
A heaped teaspoon of butter.
Two heaped tablespoons of Philadelphia
Two heaped tablespoons of Nutella (plus one extra for topping)
Heaped table spoon of icing sugar
1 container of whipping cream (I think probably 200ml? It was about 2/3 of one of the tall thin Emlea cream containers).
Pinch of salt.

Base:
Melt your butter.
Whizz up all the biscuits and 2 sweets to a crumble texture.
Mix the crumble and butter together and divide in to the three glasses and press lightly in to form the base. Refrigerate.

Cheesecake:
Whip the cream to soft peaks and set aside.
Crumble up 3 sweets, not in to dust, leave them kind of chunky.
In a separate bowl beat together the Philadelphia, Nutella, salt & sieved icing sugar until totally smooth and all the one colour. Wooden spoon is fine here, no need for a whisk. It will help if everything is the same temperature so maybe have your Philadelphia out of the fridge for a while first.
Stir in the crushed sweets and half of the whipped cream to loosen the mixture then gently fold in the rest of the whipped cream to retain the lightness and air.
Spoon or pipe the mixture on top of the 3 chilled bases and give a tap on the counter or small wobble to level off the tops.
Refrigerate for 2 hours minimum.

Topping:
Using the third tablespoon of Nutella warm it up in the microwave in 30 seconds bursts. It won’t ever be pourable but it will loosen up. Divide over the 3 glasses and swirl your glasses to cover the tops of the cheesecake.
Top with the last of the sweets cut in half and sprinkle with whatever crumbs are left on the chopping board. No waste here

Chill again for as long as you like and take them out about 20 minutes before you’re ready to eat.

Warning: these are very rich! Those glasses are 330ml and we each only ate about half. They are waiting in the fridge to finish tomorrow

Seamai

Michellenman wrote: »

I just kind of make it up based on a few recipes I’d seen online. I only needed to make 3 glasses and i couldn’t find a recipe for such a small quantity.

The below are approximates for the most part.

8 ferrero rocher sweets. (2 for the bases, 3 as decoration, 3 for the cheesecake)
6 biscuits (I used chocolate chip maryland cookies)
A heaped teaspoon of butter.
Two heaped tablespoons of Philadelphia
Two heaped tablespoons of Nutella (plus one extra for topping)
Heaped table spoon of icing sugar
1 container of whipping cream (I think probably 200ml? It was about 2/3 of one of the tall thin Emlea cream containers).
Pinch of salt.

Base:
Melt your butter.
Whizz up all the biscuits and 2 sweets to a crumble texture.
Mix the crumble and butter together and divide in to the three glasses and press lightly in to form the base. Refrigerate.

Cheesecake:
Whip the cream to soft peaks and set aside.
Crumble up 3 sweets, not in to dust, leave them kind of chunky.
In a separate bowl beat together the Philadelphia, Nutella, salt & sieved icing sugar until totally smooth and all the one colour. Wooden spoon is fine here, no need for a whisk. It will help if everything is the same temperature so maybe have your Philadelphia out of the fridge for a while first.
Stir in the crushed sweets and half of the whipped cream to loosen the mixture then gently fold in the rest of the whipped cream to retain the lightness and air.
Spoon or pipe the mixture on top of the 3 chilled bases and give a tap on the counter or small wobble to level off the tops.
Refrigerate for 2 hours minimum.

Topping:
Using the third tablespoon of Nutella warm it up in the microwave in 30 seconds bursts. It won’t ever be pourable but it will loosen up. Divide over the 3 glasses and swirl your glasses to cover the tops of the cheesecake.
Top with the last of the sweets cut in half and sprinkle with whatever crumbs are left on the chopping board. No waste here

Chill again for as long as you like and take them out about 20 minutes before you’re ready to eat.

Warning: these are very rich! Those glasses are 330ml and we each only ate about half. They are waiting in the fridge to finish tomorrow

Thanks for that, I'll definitely be trying that.

Coopaloop

Simple Madeira cake yesterday.

florawest

Baked 2 banana breads ( to share)
Baked about 20 jammy type biscuits
2 porridge bread, pot of damson jam made last week.

dee_mc

Yesterday's bake: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/recipes/coffee-traybake-1.4205938
Again, no pics, but this time mine looks richer and more moist than the one in the photo!
On a related note, as a longtime Irel fan, I picked up a bottle of Camp (chicory and coffee essence) - am I imagining things or is it runnier and weaker in flavour than Irel? I felt like I had to use about three times as much Camp as I'd generally use of Irel to get the same flavour pay-off?

pew

Made some brown soda bread. First time making it. Waiting for it to cool then I'm going to dig in with some real butter.

Recipe from the Board Bia site.

rubadub

pew wrote: »

Made some brown soda bread. First time making it. Waiting for it to cool then I'm going to dig in with some real butter.

Recipe from the Board Bia site.

I was thinking of making some. I only have evaporated milk. I know people make buttermilk substitutes with vinegar or lemon juice, but I did not really like the idea of it possibly imparting taste. Then I remembered I have citric acid powder, you can get big bags in asian supermarkets.

1 cup milk + slightly less than 1/4 tsp citric acid. In all cases, let the mixture stand for five to ten minutes before using

phormium

I don't know about Camp being more runny than Irel, I haven't noticed but they have identical ingredients as I have a pic of them both side by side for comparison from a few years ago when Irel was last available. It was taken while I still had the old bottle of Irel to show someone who disbelieved they were similar

Sabre0001

Baked a Strawberry Lemonade cake with a mascarpone frosting (that had strawberry coulis mixed in). All gluten free. Delicious! And the strawberry coulis is a nice, refreshing touch.

pew

Can you share the recipe please? I work with a coeliac so I'm always looking for gluten free treats.

Dizzyblonde

I made a fruit loaf today, and despite dusting the sultanas with flour they still sank to the bottom. Does anyone have a better trick to stop it happening please?

New Home

Were the sultanas damp when you dusted them? Normally that trick works for me, but perhaps instead of stirring them in, next time pour about half the batter into the tin, then sprinkle some sultanas on top, add another quarter of batter, more sultanas, another bit of batter, more sultanas again and then cover with the remainder of the matter. You may stand some chance that at least some of them won't sink.

phormium

If your cake batter is too thin then stuff sinks! You need a thickish batter to hold up things like dried fruit/choc chips/fresh fruit like blueberries etc. If there is milk or any additional liquid added cut back on it, you need a good stiff batter, plus the dusting with flour, to hold up anything in a cake batter.

Dizzyblonde

New Home wrote: »

Were the sultanas damp when you dusted them? Normally that trick works for me, but perhaps instead of stirring them in, next time pour about half the batter into the tin, then sprinkle some sultanas on top, add another quarter of batter, more sultanas, another bit of batter, more sultanas again and then cover with the remainder of the matter. You may stand some chance that at least some of them won't sink.

No I just took them from the pack and dusted them. I'll try layering next time, thanks!

phormium wrote: »

If your cake batter is too thin then stuff sinks! You need a thickish batter to hold up things like dried fruit/choc chips/fresh fruit like blueberries etc. If there is milk or any additional liquid added cut back on it, you need a good stiff batter, plus the dusting with flour, to hold up anything in a cake batter.

Thanks - I did think the batter was a bit runny. There was 75ml of milk added to 3 eggs in the recipe, so I'll leave the milk out in future.

Sabre0001

pew wrote: »

Can you share the recipe please? I work with a coeliac so I'm always looking for gluten free treats.

I usually swap in Odlums' gluten free self-raising flour into any recipe one to one and tends to work out pretty well.

The recipe for this cake is here: https://keelings.ie/recipes/strawberry-lemonade-cake/

I do a mascarpone frosting (https://www.lifeloveandsugar.com/stabilized-mascarpone-whipped-cream/) almost by default at this stage as I prefer the taste and texture more than buttercream. Doubled the lifeloveandsugar's quantity to do the cake.

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One treat that we always find delicious is BBC Good Food's cookies: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/vintage-chocolate-chip-cookies

Swap in the Odlums flour and leave out Bicarb of Soda (is what we've done). As an added extra, sprinkle a little sea salt on each cookie just before they go in the over. Only needs 8 mins in the oven and super easy to prepare. I tend to go for more than a teaspoon size

Lisha

Feeling slightly more like a human and managed to bake cookies with my daughter. I used the Pret A Manger secret recipie they released and are the best cookies I ever made.. I didn’t have the soft brown sugar stipulated In recipe used demera instead. Also used normal butter not unsalted

https://www.pret.co.uk/en-gb/pret-recipes/dark-chocolate-chunk-cookie-recipe