Baked anything tasty lately?

Tree · 17-04-2016 11:31am #1

In the spirit of "What did you have for Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner" threads from Cooking & Recipes, did you bake anything tasty lately?

[The usual rules for these threads in C&R is no picture quoting and no pimping of your blog]

To start I'll offer up last night's loaf of bread. Basic white bread with a bit of horlicks and wheatgerm. Usually baked in a loaf tin but last night in a casserole dish to change things up. It's even harder to try to slice up

Tree · 17-04-2016 11:33am

And something sweet (that's not actually baked, whoops).

Brioche doughnuts, fried at 175ºC, sprinkled in a blend of horlicks and caster sugar. I also provided dark chocolate ganache for dipping.

Dizzyblonde · 17-04-2016 12:22pm

Great idea for a thread

Your bread and doughnuts look amazing.

I made lemon slices on Friday.

dee_mc · 17-04-2016 9:33pm

No pics (and they're not the most photogenic anyway, to be fair!) but I've just made a batch of fruit and egg mini muffins for relatively healthy snacks over the next few days. They're very easy and quick to make, just eggs, bananas, raspberries and vanilla extract. Tasty too

tampopo · 18-04-2016 10:48pm

First of the year with the rhubarb crumble,

From a local community garden, thick stalks cut large. I forgot to stew them so they were crunchy, though well cooked!
For a change, I didn't measure the ingredients, just throwing together some flour, sugar, margarine and some jumbo oats.

Zelda247 · 23-04-2016 11:19am

Tree wrote: »

In the spirit of "What did you have for Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner" threads from Cooking & Recipes, did you bake anything tasty lately?

[The usual rules for these threads in C&R is no picture quoting and no pimping of your blog]

To start I'll offer up last night's loaf of bread. Basic white bread with a bit of horlicks and wheatgerm. Usually baked in a loaf tin but last night in a casserole dish to change things up. It's even harder to try to slice up

Horlicks?

Tree · 23-04-2016 9:59pm

Yep! It's got a lovely maltiness, and the milk helps the loaf to keep longer than 24hours. I'd highly recommend it.

Zelda247 · 24-04-2016 10:23am

Tree wrote: »

Yep! It's got a lovely maltiness, and the milk helps the loaf to keep longer than 24hours. I'd highly recommend it.

Very interesting, I love Horlicks, do you think I could add it to Brown Bread?

tampopo · 24-04-2016 10:45am

More rhubarb. This time from mein very own garden.

I had wanted to make this,
http://www.farmfreshtoyou.com/recipes/index/view/?id=3465

but in a hurry as the oven was already on with a sausage meat quiche. Laptop was off. Crap. Tried my phone, but can't see comments at the end of a FB album. Oh well, improvise.

I chopped up the rhubarb into small pieces. And mashed a banana and mixed both. Rolled out the pastry and filled with the mix. Then I had a pear leftover from my Mon-Fri brekkie schedule and fanned it around the top. Oh yeah, with added cardamom seeds chopped fine. As fine as I could get them.

Worked a treat.

with quiche to the right...

looking for a name now, for my invention!

Tree · 24-04-2016 5:17pm

Zelda247 wrote: »

Very interesting, I love Horlicks, do you think I could add it to Brown Bread?

Absolutely, for a soda bread, I wouldn't add too much unless you like the bread to be sweet. Add a couple of spoons with the flour.

For brown yeast bread, swap out any sugar you usually use for the horlicks.

MusicalMegami · 24-04-2016 8:14pm

Wow an inspiration thread love it! Got ideas for the next week or so

I cant post pics its seems, but made some burger buns yesterday came out delicious only slightly tweaked a recipe from annies eats but definitly best recipe i've tried by far, and i actually had seed to make em look all proper

MusicalMegami · 24-04-2016 8:17pm

Tree that bread looks amazing! I've had no success with a good loaf but the crumb on yours looking real good, and those slices dont even look like you struggled you should see mines, i need to invest in a bread knife..asap lol

RentDayBlues · 24-04-2016 8:32pm

Wohoo, love these threads. Had the inlaws over for lunch so made gf brown bread, banana bread and carrot cake

Tree · 24-04-2016 10:37pm

MusicalMegami wrote: »

Tree that bread looks amazing! I've had no success with a good loaf but the crumb on yours looking real good, and those slices dont even look like you struggled you should see mines, i need to invest in a bread knife..asap lol

The first slice or two always comes out ok, the rest of the loaf is an uneven disaster

Settled on a wet dough after years of optimisation, looking at nearly 90% hydration some weeks.

angeldelight · 24-04-2016 11:23pm

Raspberry sponge at the weekend

Dizzyblonde · 25-04-2016 8:38pm

I baked my first sourdough loaf

It's cooling now and I'm hoping it tastes as good as it should after three days' preparation.

Zelda247 · 26-04-2016 10:13am

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

I baked my first sourdough loaf
It's cooling now and I'm hoping it tastes as good as it should after three days' preparation.

OMG it looks perfect, I hope it tastes as good as it looks, the shape is amazing.

leahyl · 26-04-2016 4:19pm

angeldelight wrote: »

Raspberry sponge at the weekend

Making me sooo hungry! I haven't baked in ages, really have to get back into it again.

Dizzyblonde · 29-04-2016 4:02pm

Some almond slices I made this morning. I had no apricot jam, but I found a jar of gooseberry jam I made last summer and it's actually a nice alternative

Tree · 02-05-2016 12:23pm

Leftover pizza dough, baked last night.

Sliced and buttered, covered in black pudding.

fussyonion · 02-05-2016 12:26pm

angeldelight wrote: »

Raspberry sponge at the weekend

Ooh bake that for my birthday wouldya!

fussyonion · 02-05-2016 12:27pm

Jaysus Dizzy, I really want one of those almond slices now.
They look epic.

Dizzyblonde · 05-05-2016 11:27am

I made a cream sponge for Mr. Dizzy's birthday yesterday but forgot to take a photo before it was cut. This is all that remains.

northgirl · 05-05-2016 12:13pm

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

I made a cream sponge for Mr. Dizzy's birthday yesterday but forgot to take a photo before it was cut. This is all that remains.

Looks delicious... my favourite cake.. and I'm starving at work :rolleyes:

RentDayBlues · 05-05-2016 4:16pm

Not sure it counts as baking but tried making granola this afternoon. I'm a coeliac and I'm so tired of the high prices for so called gluten free muesli or granola that taste like plastic or cardboard! Have only tasted a little but really looking forward to a bowl in the morning

caille · 06-05-2016 12:21am

I made oat and cheese scones, no pics, not bad at all, and from leftovers!

I had a load of oat flakes left over from a bag of museli (nuts and dried fruit had got eaten out of it) and two blocks of cheddar cheese frozen in the freezer.

I milled the oat flakes and made oat flour and defrosted the cheese and chopped up very finely. I mixed a cup of flour to a cup of chopped up cheese in a bowl and added a bit of salt, black pepper and some milk and made about four scones from this alone.

I ended up with 12 scones in total from using all the milled flour and cheese.

Dizzyblonde · 07-05-2016 3:20pm

I baked Faith's sweet scones from the Cooking Club last night. They're the nicest scones I've ever made

dee_mc · 07-05-2016 3:28pm

They look amazing Dizzy, just like the ones my mam used to make, except she would lash on the egg glaze so tehy were super shiny! I'd kill for one of those with a good smear of butter now!

Dizzyblonde · 07-05-2016 3:36pm

We ate a load of them last night with butter, jam and cream

leahyl · 09-05-2016 2:54pm

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

I baked Faith's sweet scones from the Cooking Club last night. They're the nicest scones I've ever made

That recipe is amazing!! I gave it to my mum and she uses it all the time now to make scones for my dad, cos he loves a nice scone! She has the freezer full of them :pac:

Tree · 16-05-2016 10:40am

Lemon poppy seed muffins.
In this instance, split and toasted, topped with homemade lemon curd.

The muffins ended up less tender than I had hoped, but i've certainly had tougher muffins elsewhere...

Baked anything tasty lately?

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