Baked anything tasty lately?

tickingclock · 24-10-2019 9:33pm

Fair play. That's unreal looking. Looks so professional and delicious

Dizzyblonde · 25-10-2019 10:51am

That's fabulous AndyBoBandy, I'd say the little lad was delighted to produce it this morning

AndyBoBandy · 25-10-2019 10:57am

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

That's fabulous AndyBoBandy, I'd say the little lad was delighted to produce it this morning

He was more interested in the Oreo/Cream Cheese ‘eye’ balls we also sent in!

We’ll ‘buy’ the pumpkin cake back, and he’ll sell the eye balls!!

These are so tasty;
1 and 1/2 packets of Oreos blended up
1 tub of Philadelphia then mixed with the blended Oreos,
Rolled into little balls,
chilled for a few hours
then dipped in melted chocolate and chilled again.

Dizzyblonde · 25-10-2019 10:58am

I made a couple of apple & blackberry crumble tarts yesterday. Photo taken after I tested one for quality control purposes

Dizzyblonde · 25-10-2019 10:59am

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

He was more interested in the Oreo/Cream Cheese ‘eye’ balls we also sent in!

We’ll ‘buy’ the pumpkin cake back, and he’ll sell the eye balls!!

The eyeballs are class though!

Graces7 · 27-10-2019 6:25am

Made scones; first baking for many months. Forgot about my "bottom burning " oven but they are fine! Felt great to do it

You folk are an inspiration; thank you.

27-10-2019 9:53am

Graces7 wrote: »

Made scones; first baking for many months. Forgot about my "bottom burning " oven but they are fine! Felt great to do it

You folk are an inspiration; thank you.

Well done. I'm making an apple crumble today

Graces7 · 09-11-2019 3:57pm

Not strictly baking but just enjoying a no-bake flapjack.. easy even for me and very tasty... this one is without peanut butter

caviardreams · 09-11-2019 7:12pm

Graces7 wrote: »

Not strictly baking but just enjoying a no-bake flapjack.. easy even for me and very tasty... this one is without peanut butter

Oooh recipe would be great please if it's not too much trouble - thanks

iamwhoiam · 09-11-2019 7:13pm

caviardreams wrote: »

Oooh recipe would be great please if it's not too much trouble - thanks

Me too please Grace

Graces7 · 10-11-2019 1:46pm

No bake flapjack

It is very simple

100 gram butter

5 tbs golden syrup

200 gms porage oats

( they did add 1 oz sugar but it made it too sweet)

If you like dried fruit and nuts, grand

Put butter and syrup in a large pan over a low heat until just melted and combined.

Stir in the oats and any dried fruit etc until all coated with the mixture

Put into a cake tin ( square makes cutting easier) . Press well down so it melds well as it cools.

Allow to cool then into fridge for an hour ….

Enjoy! It is not hard like the baked version but deliciously chewy

iamwhoiam · 10-11-2019 1:55pm

Graces7 wrote: »

No bake flapjack

It is very simple

100 gram butter

5 tbs golden syrup

200 gms porage oats

( they did add 1 oz sugar but it made it too sweet)

If you like dried fruit and nuts, grand

Put butter and syrup in a large pan over a low heat until just melted and combined.

Stir in the oats and any dried fruit etc until all coated with the mixture

Put into a cake tin ( square makes cutting easier) . Press well down so it melds well as it cools.

Allow to cool then into fridge for an hour ….

Enjoy! It is not hard like the baked version but deliciously chewy

Thank you !

Lisha · 10-11-2019 8:25pm

Baked fruit scones and Clodagh McKenna’s Brown bread.
I love the bread and as recipie makes 2 loaves it will be there for a few days. It’s ridiculously nice with cheddar cheese.

kylith · 10-11-2019 9:30pm

Himself asked for lemon cake for his birthday so made lemon cake filled with lemon curd and topped with lemon icing. It wasn't pretty, but it was tasty.

Loveinapril · 13-11-2019 10:47am

I baked these pumpkin spiced muffins last night. I still have half a pumpkin left so will be making another batch immediately. They are gorgeous!

Planet X · 16-11-2019 4:15pm

RacoonQueen · 17-11-2019 9:49pm

All my baking is failing lately.

Usually I find baking great for stress relief but I had so much going on I didn't have time for ages...then I was just baking cos I felt like I should and it all turns out dreadful.

Made a lemon cake that normally is delicious today..everything was dreadful, the cake was rubbery...the swiss buttercream curdled and then turned out too thick :rolleyes:

18-11-2019 7:13pm

I love this time of year for various reasons, but also because Lidl sell individual baking sheets! I always stock up for the year.

What, don't judge me...

phormium · 19-11-2019 11:29am

Swiss meringue buttercream is troublesome these days with the cold weather firming up the butter too quickly, I fire in the butter before the meringue is down to room temp so it still has a bit of heat in it, it's easier to get a nice silky consistency when it's still a little warm.

RacoonQueen · 24-11-2019 9:52pm

Peanutbutter layer cake with chocolate Russian buttercream, should have used paddle attachment at the end for the buttercream..ended up trying to hand mix lumps of butter into it just as I was assembling cake.

Frustratingly the cakes were a little over cooked, would have been better for me to split it into three 8 inch layers as I ended up overfilling the two (and having 5 cupcakes leftover. :pac:
Like this idea of peanutbutter cake and messing around with a chocolate, caramel, nougat and salted peanut mix to try and make a delicious snickers cake.

Crappy pic.

Michellenman · 24-11-2019 10:55pm

That buttercream looks incredible! Make sure to take a pic of it when it’s all sliced up!

RacoonQueen · 25-11-2019 10:14am

Michellenman wrote: »

That buttercream looks incredible! Make sure to take a pic of it when it’s all sliced up!

The buttercream is nice an silky. Need to try get a better photo in daylight.

09-12-2019 7:20pm

The little fellah's first birthday is today, but we threw a party for him yesterday. Just a simple chocolate buscuit cake made by my 3 year old daughter and me, and then my wife then added the icing decorations.

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Sabre0001 · 10-12-2019 12:01pm

Love the little penguin

I made up a batch of cookies with chocolate covered honeycomb pieces. Mmmmm, coooookie!

Graces7 · 10-12-2019 12:26pm

Not technically baking but aiming to avoid diving into my carefully assembled Christmas goodies... So a golden syrup steamed sponge pudding... With custard, real winter weather fare... The mince pies will live a while longer! ( not sure what shopping will be able to get across to the island with this erratic bad weather)

kylith · 13-12-2019 10:18pm

I' em been given some cookin apples and want to make some puff pastry hand pies but all the recipes online are American abd call for Granny Smiths and the like. Any recipes folks?

13-12-2019 10:30pm

kylith wrote: »

I' em been given some cookin apples and want to make some puff pastry hand pies but all the recipes online are American abd call for Granny Smiths and the like. Any recipes folks?

Any cooking apples would do.

kylith · 13-12-2019 11:00pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Any cooking apples would do.

Presumably cooking apples would need significantly more sugar than eating apples?

13-12-2019 11:03pm

kylith wrote: »

Presumably cooking apples would need significantly more sugar than eating apples?

Just a smudging

Dizzyblonde · 15-12-2019 12:36pm

You'll definitely need a good sprinkling of sugar. I'd add a sprinkle of flour too, to thicken the juice because there'll be a lot more than you'd get with eating apples.

Michellenman · 21-12-2019 7:54pm

Christmas gift baking done! I’ve done big hampers of chutneys and jams and biscotti over the years but just don’t have the time anymore. Decided to do 3 thing, a classic, a Christmas themed one and one that’s a bit more difficult. I bought all the containers and ‘handmade with love’ stickers on amazon and think the presentation turned out really well.

Hope none of the gift-ees are on boards

Dark Chocolate salted caramel macarons

Lemon curd macarons

Mini mince pies. I made the pastry but bought the mince meat as I just could never beat the M&S 6 month mature mince meat so why try?!

Vanilla sugar cookies coated in a super thin layer of tart lemon water icing. I used an American recipe for these and they are veeeery sweet so needed the lemon to cut through that. You can’t see it in the photos but I got a snowflake cookie stamper in Sostrene Greene and it’s so good!

B0jangles · 22-12-2019 10:48am

Michellenman wrote: »

Christmas gift baking done! I’ve done big hampers of chutneys and jams and biscotti over the years but just don’t have the time anymore. Decided to do 3 thing, a classic, a Christmas themed one and one that’s a bit more difficult. I bought all the containers and ‘handmade with love’ stickers on amazon and think the presentation turned out really well.

Hope none of the gift-ees are on boards

Dark Chocolate salted caramel macarons

Lemon curd macarons

Mini mince pies. I made the pastry but bought the mince meat as I just could never beat the M&S 6 month mature mince meat so why try?!

Vanilla sugar cookies coated in a super thin layer of tart lemon water icing. I used an American recipe for these and they are veeeery sweet so needed the lemon to cut through that. You can’t see it in the photos but I got a snowflake cookie stamper in Sostrene Greene and it’s so good!

Your giftees are extremely lucky! I would probably knock a person over to get at those lemon curd macarons

RacoonQueen · 24-12-2019 9:47am

Having time to make baked gifts is my dream. Love it. Today I'm making a malteaser pie and a peanut butter cake for christmas day desserts. I will pass off the cake as peanut cake as they won't eat it if I say peanut butter...

jellybear · 24-12-2019 12:26pm

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Having time to make baked gifts is my dream. Love it. Today I'm making a malteaser pie and a peanut butter cake for christmas day desserts. I will pass off the cake as peanut cake as they won't eat it if I say peanut butter...

Drool!!! Can I come to yours for Christmas!?

Michellenman, those hampers are a gorgeous idea. Hope the recipients love them!!:)

24-12-2019 9:25pm

Some cookies made by my daughter and me, with one now left out for the big man arriving later

Michellenman · 25-12-2019 12:22am

Lucky Santa!

mvl · 26-12-2019 10:21pm

2 hours of work today for this (and it was the small version, as usually I add more layers).

- presentation was a bit in a hurry ...

Sabre0001 · 27-12-2019 10:48am

Been on a cookie baking spree in the last few weeks. Left these out for Santa; one last chance to make the nice list

Planet X · 29-12-2019 12:57pm

Not me but my daughter, carrots left over from Christmas.
That'll do nicely......

twignme · 29-12-2019 1:17pm

The only thing baked on this is the crust, so I hope that's allowed!
I love these biscuits with my coffee so thought I would go to the next stage with a cheesecake

RacoonQueen · 31-12-2019 2:13pm

Christmas day was malteser pie. Blitzed up maltesers with melted butter for the crust then a malty chocolate mousse-y filling, topped with fresh cream whipped up with some vanilla extract and some icing sugar and maltesers. I don't need to tell you how amazing this is and the filling just tasted like a giant mouthful of malteser that immediately melted in your mouth.

Second desert for the big day, for those who don't like things so sweet(Dad). The peanutbutter cake I posted a few weeks ago. Did three layers this time and covered in the same russian buttercream. My third tin didn't match the other two so it didn't stack too well. Mixed this up a bit by adding a layer of caramel and roasted peanuts between layers one and two (partly did this for flavour, partly did this to use the peanuts for support with the mismatching cake tins) and another layer of that on top and some fresh cream. I used some almond extract in this rather than vanilla extract to try and help bring out the nutty flavour.

I had a 500ml bottle of double cream and some caramel left over that I needed to use within the next week or so, so whatchagunna do but make something else

So, yesterday I made a choc peanut, salted caramel pie. Biscuit base, salted caramel and peanuts and dark choc ganache topping. I was actually a little short of caramel and had some leftover condensed milk in the fridge as well so I used that in with the caramel and nut mix, worked out fine actually makes the caramel kinda milky and creamy.

Michellenman · 01-01-2020 1:21pm

That pie is going to be in my dreams tonight. All three look delicious! I must give Russian buttercream a go sometime!

01-01-2020 10:08pm

The Derry Girls Bake Off episode tonight was incredible. It needs to be a yearly thing.

RacoonQueen · 03-01-2020 10:31am

Michellenman wrote: »

That pie is going to be in my dreams tonight. All three look delicious! I must give Russian buttercream a go sometime!

I'd been meaning to try it for ages, it's so quick and easy and I like the taste. Cupcakesavvykitchen youtube channel has a load of different variations(colours/flavours) labelled as condensed milk buttercream with lots of piping porn.

Sabre0001 · 06-01-2020 1:37pm

Attempted to make a salted caramel and chocolate marble loaf with nutella drizzled on top. However, I added rolos to the salted caramel batch (had them in cookies recently and they worked well despite some cookies oozing caramel out of the oven which later solidified).

Ended up with a tasty goopy mess at the bottom of the loaf tin and a cake that I had to perform some surgery on. Thankfully the cake itself was nice in the end.

RacoonQueen · 06-01-2020 10:56pm

Does anyone have a recipe or good substitute for ’chocolate pudding mix’? Often see it in recipes I like the look of but never tried to emulate it, is it like angel delight??

New Home · 06-01-2020 11:35pm

Pudding mix is usually made with cocoa, sugar, vanilla if you want to, and as a thickener either corn starch (unmodified), potato starch or wheat starch. All are easily found in health food shops. Corn starch can be found in normal supermarkets, too. You'll recognise the first two because they're even "thinner" than icing sugar, but if you squeeze the bag the starch will squeak (i.m.o, wheat starch is the "heaviest" and tends to leave an aftertaste of uncooked flour if you don't boil the mixure for a good few minutes, while the others aren't as strong).

To make the pudding you'd then add cold milk (not hot or lumps would form) to the dry ingredients a bit at a time stirring it in well, then cook the mixture like you would a custard. If you add more milk (or less corn starch), using the same principle you can make thick continental hot chocolate.

For the pudding, for one litre of milk you'd need approx 8 tbsp of cocoa, 8 tbsp of sugar, and 4 tbsp of corn/potato/wheat starch (and vanilla, if you like), so for your recipes it'd be a matter of changing the quantities of the ingredients proportionally.

Shenshen · 07-01-2020 10:05am

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Does anyone have a recipe or good substitute for ’chocolate pudding mix’? Often see it in recipes I like the look of but never tried to emulate it, is it like angel delight??

Not angel delight, more like chocolate custard.
You can find it in Polish shops very easily. It's in individual sachets, usually called budyń.

RacoonQueen · 07-01-2020 11:53am

I went onto youtube to look up recipes and apparantly I'd already watched this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53G4Rn88pR4

Dizzyblonde · 09-01-2020 10:06pm

I made four mini batch loaves today for the first time. They were surprisingly authentic, both in taste and texture. My tin was a bit big (8 inch) so I had to make it smaller using cardboard and tinfoil, but I'll invest in the right size now it's turned out so well.

Baked anything tasty lately?

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