Baked anything tasty lately?

This thread is really giving me the baking bug again! I had stopped for a good while because my brother is getting married next Friday so I would only be tempting myself if I kept it up! I did bake lemon drizzle cake on Sunday - my excuse was that the lemons were about to go off if I didn't use them...:D Bought some into work and my dad devoured some as well

I'm having to eat it all myself though. That's the only drawback...

Zelda247 wrote: »

I love Cold Tea brack, I use the Odlems recipe.

Me too. I find that it is very forgiving if you want to add in extra fruit, reduce sugar or increase overall quantity. Also quite nice if you want to add in a glug of whiskey to the tea when soaking the fruit.

That looks unbelievable. I've seen professional cakes that don't look as good. Well done!

Caramel chocolate shortbread with fudge sprinkled on top. It's setting in the fridge with my husbands friend hovering around the fridge waiting impatiently!!

I wish I could bake. This thread is brilliant!

The Raptor wrote: »

I copied this recipe but multipled everything by 1.5 because I had a bigger tray. I found some math thing online to help you figure out how much extra to use if you have a bigger tray.

Have you a link for the thing to work out the extra ingredients please?

I made brownies recently and they went down a treat with everyone. They were very rich and chocolatey, delicious though. Didn't last long anyway.

A friend gave me the recipe. It was an odlums one that I changed slightly. I'll post it up here if anyone wants it

The Raptor wrote: »

https://food52.com/blog/13239-how-to-make-your-baking-recipe-fit-your-pan-size

Here's the link to work out how to adapt your recipe to fit your tray size.

Please post your brownie recipe.

Thanks a million for this.

Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

225g good quality dark chocolate broken into pieces
2 small bars of milk chocolate
225g butter
3 large eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespon cocoa powder
75g plain flour
22 x 30cm baking tin

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180°C (I have a fan oven and found 165°C to be right for my oven). Line the baking tin with parchment paper.
Put the butter and chocolate into a heatproof bowl and place over a saucepan of barely simmering water. Don't allow bowl to touch the water. Stir constantly until fully melted and smooth.
With an electric whisk, whisk the sugar and eggs for 2-3 mins until pale and light.
Slowly add the melted chocolate/butter and then add the vanilla extract and continue to whisk until thickened.
Last, add the sifted flour and baking powder and fold in gently.
Put the mixture into a prepared tin and bake in the middle shelf of the oven for 30 minutes until the brownies have come away from the side of the tin slightly.
Remove from tin, place on wire tray and allow to cool.

I used the Moser Roth chocolate from Aldi. I used the 70% one and three of the small milk chocolate bars. I also added extra cocoa powder, maybe 1.5 tablespoons in total.

It worked out well, it was very thick when putting on the tray and didn't rise much, but they were very tasty. There wasn't one left over.

The Raptor wrote: »

Can't wait to try your brownie recipe.

Let me know how you find them

Just after taking 2 apple pies out if the oven. My mum gave me a bag of windfalls plus some cooking apples I had in the bottom of the fridge that had to be used up. They smell divine. I put ground cinnamon and cloves in. Saying that I hate making pastry so I cheated and used ready made.

I also made a batch of oatmeal raisin cookies with the kids Friday evening. It was my first time making cookies and I was pleasantly surprised. I made about 2 dozen if them and looking at the box there is only one left. The plan was to dip them in chocolate but they didn't get that far.