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Baked anything tasty lately?

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  • #2852
    MacDanger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,250 ✭✭✭MacDanger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124066273#Comment_124066273

    My wife makes them and she uses egg wash at the join and just pinches the pastry together tightly



  • #2853
    barneygumble99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,787 ✭✭✭barneygumble99


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    Guinness bread



  • #2854
    Fionn1952
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,143 ✭✭✭Fionn1952


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124069884#Comment_124069884

    A slice as thick as your doorstep with half an inch of butter and I'm in heaven with that.

    What balance between the buttermilk and stout did you go with?



  • #2855
    barneygumble99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,787 ✭✭✭barneygumble99


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124069997#Comment_124069997

    125ml buttermilk to half a can of Guinness , 300g wholemeal flour.



  • #2856
    barneygumble99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,787 ✭✭✭barneygumble99


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124069997#Comment_124069997
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  • #2857
    Fionn1952
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124074400#Comment_124074400

    You'd a steady hand with that butter knife! I'd want it on with a trowel.

    Jokes aside, it looks delicious.



  • #2858
    Eeshaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭Eeshaw


    My wife did the Christmas bake today. She baked everything up the the quiche before telling me that the oven wasn't working properly as the fan wasn't spinning.

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    Turns out she had turned on the grill, not the oven 🤦

    Disaster averted by putting everything in the oven again upside down for a short while.

    The savories were my job.

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  • #2859
    54and56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,174 ✭✭✭54and56


    Excellent recorvery @Eeshaw



  • #2860
    Tree
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,875 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


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    soda breads and a small coffee and walnut cake (6" diameter) for gifting



  • #2861
    New Home
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124094133#Comment_124094133

    Snap! Icing sugar and coffee glaze.

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  • #2862
    Raoul Duke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭Raoul Duke


    One of the many panettones that I made before Christmas. Being making them for a few years now and this year they finally all came out fairly decent without too much work and worry.

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  • #2863
    New Home
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    Not sure if you do thia already, but if you stick a few long skewers around the base of the panettone (say about an inch) as soon as you take it out of the oven and suspend it upside down from them to cool, it's supposed to help to keep the shape of its "dome".

    This kind of thing:

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  • #2864
    Raoul Duke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭Raoul Duke


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124103124#Comment_124103124

    Yeah, it's the only way to do it. I do 3 at a time and my set up is far more rough and ready than the above photo. Picture multiple piles of books on the coffee table.

    The mushroom-like dome is the main aspect of it that I can't get right. It balloons up in the oven, but has already settled down before I take it out. But the crumb is very light and fluffy and that's by far the most important thing. So I'm ok with the non-prize winning looks.



  • #2865
    New Home
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    It's not baking proper, but I don't know where else to post these. I think they look like sea glass or unpolished gems. They're candied mandarin orange peels. I'm still working on the candied orange ones. The kitchen smells heavenly and they taste amazing.

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  • #2866
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124143420#Comment_124143420

    Great idea. I’d say they go really well with chocolate.



  • #2867
    New Home
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124143646#Comment_124143646

    I don't think they'll last long enough. 😁

    Also, just in case someone else wanted to try this, make sure the label on the boxes or nets of citrus fruit you get clearly state that the rinds are edible and untreated (I don't mean just 'unwaxed').



  • #2868
    New Home
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    This is the opposite of baking, but I put half of the candied peels to good use. A birthday cheesecake for a gift.

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    They do look pretty, though, don't they?

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  • #2869
    New Home
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    Orange ones - work in progress.

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  • #2870
    MacDanger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,250 ✭✭✭MacDanger


    Baked a couple of baguettes this morning

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  • #2871
    The Nal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,392 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Looks tasty anyway. Wont know till later.

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  • #2872
    TheKBizzle
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    I tried to reverse engineer the Tom cruise white chocolate & coconut cake he gives out at Christmas as a muffin.

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  • #2873
    Planet X
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,235 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    Bread and two x 1lb. Tea loaves.

    Interestingly, the lighter coloured loaf was cooked on the lower oven shelf. Don’t think I can get two loaves on one rack? (Actually…..I did before) Fan on. It was baked on my new cast iron tawa which made a huge difference to the base, hollower sound and browner finish. Upper the temp by 20c for the first 10 minutes and baked for 10 minutes longer. Big difference. Same with the tea loaves, upped the temp slightly and several minutes longer. Don’t be a slave to recipe temps/times is what I’m learning.


    Mushy peas being soaked 😀

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  • #2874
    Fionn1952
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,143 ✭✭✭Fionn1952


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124207968#Comment_124207968

    Have you checked your oven temperature?

    Not suggesting anyone should be a slave to recipes, but it's also possible the oven thermostat is a few degrees off.

    Edit: left out the most important part, the bread and tea loaves look great!



  • #2875
    sporina
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124207968#Comment_124207968

    wow well done.. would love to see a cross section of them..



  • #2876
    barneygumble99
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    1. Choc chip cookies, don’t think they’d rise as much.
    2. Queen cakes
    3. Gingerbread men including a gingerbread man’s turd at the top 🫣
    4. Rice crispy buns

    All baked with the ‘help’ of a 2 and 4 year old

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  • #2877
    sporina
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124218686#Comment_124218686

    awe bless - quality times.. RCBs remind me of birthday parties as a kid - they will never go out of fashion - thankfully



  • #2878
    barneygumble99
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    I’m an old man now in their eyes but I think I’m more excited than they are, waiting for the goodies to be edible. Still licking the spoons , whisks, scraping the bowls 🤣🤣🤣



  • #2879
    MacDanger
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    I sometime have a problem with my brown bread where the top crust comes away from the bread underneath (see the left hand side of the photo below) - anyone know what causes this or how I can prevent it?

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  • #2880
    Planet X
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    In my quest to get level, uniformly baked sponges, I dropped the temperature by 20c and bake for an extra 5/10 minutes. This seems to have solved the problem of “erupting” sponge uneveness. I think 😀.

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    Coffee cake.



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  • #2881
    reap-a-rat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭reap-a-rat


    Re: the brown bread - Are you cutting it too quickly after you've taken it out? It doesn't have to be cold but I started cooling mine for a good bit longer, like it might be a tiny bit still warm but butter wouldn't melt on it and that seemed to let it rest in a way and not pull away.

    If you are letting it cool, I don't really know, but I kind of flatten my mix in the tin with a knife to even it out a bit and I don't have that issue anymore with both of these tips.



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