The Baking Group discussion

Hello folks,

This is a place to share you latest bake! What did you last bake? Please tell us and feel free to share your experience and opinions on the bake. Check out the recipe discussion if you'd like to share a recipe in particular.

Good day and God bless.

Sincerely,
-Kaitlyn

For thanksgiving I baked pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and a candy pumpkin on top, all homemade (except the candy pumpkin of course!)

Oh my goodness, that sounds delicious! Baking with pumpkin is always fun... And yummy. ;)
For Thanksgiving I made a cheesecake and apple pie with my Mom. I also made truffles. =)

-Kaitlyn

I have made my own orange cake. It came to my idea because oranges are my favourite fruit.

Rumell's Green Fruit Salad:

For my very own fruit salad I'd like to put grapes, oranges, plums and kiwis. I love to put a bit of orange juice in my fruit salad. My salad has mostly the colour green.

Ingredients:
Half a packet of seedless red grapes and half a packet of seedless white grapes
Two oranges
8 portions of plums
10 portions of kiwi fruit.
1 cup of orange juice
Green food colouring (Optional)

Instructions:
1) First snip each of the grapes in half and put them in a bowl.
2) Next cut one oranges into quarters and drizzle it over the salad. With the second orange peel it and snip each segments in half and put them in the bowl.
3) Then dice 4 pieces of plums and put them in the bowl. Then snip the next 2 into quarters and add them in. Then finally cut the remaining 2 in half and add them in.
4) After that dice 4 kiwis and place them in the bowl. Next slice the next 4 kiwis and add them in. Then cut the remaining 2 into quarters and add them in.
5) Finally pour in the orange juice and fill until you get to the tip of the mixture. (Add green food colouring). Then mix all the ingredients together. Leave a side for 5 minutes then enjoy.

I just baked Kaastengels last week, it‘s a kind of cheese cookies :)

Delicious

Rumell wrote: "Delicious"

I love orange cake :D

Sinta wrote: "Rumell wrote: "Delicious"

I love orange cake :D"

Me too

I made chocolate chip cookies last week

I made lemon blueberry cupcakes with lemon cream cheese frosting.

Sounds delicious. How did it go with both of you?

It was great! I made them for our guests, and they seemed to like okay :) I made 24 and only had 4 or 5 leftover.

For dinner last night, I baked 2 loaves of bread, homemade noodles, and homemade marinara sauce. For dessert, I made Oatmeal raisin cookies. All vegan, too. :)

I saw a recipe in a cookbook for a Sour Cream Lemon Pie, and it's very good. I took it to a gathering and got so many compliments on it:)

Amazing

I made cinnamon rolls. :)

Congratulations. How did you make them?

How? I made dough, let it set for an hour, rolled it out, put the cinnamon/sugar mix on it, rolled it up, cut them, and had to put them in the fridge overnight. Then I baked them and made icing the next day.

Cinnabons have gotten so expensive that I have to make my own.

That sounds awesome. I think I might make some.

Make sure and let us know how they came out:)

They were great. I think I'm a better baker than those from the shops.

A moist strawberry cake:)

Wow. How did you make it? If you don't mind telling us.

You mean the recipe? I don't mind:)

STRAWBERRY CAKE:

1 box of yellow cake mix
1 3 oz pk of strawberry gelatin
3 Tablespoons sugar
3 Tablespoons Flour
1 Cup water
1/2 C canola oil
2 beaten eggs
1 container of frozen strawberries in juice (thawed)

Add everything, making sure to mix well; Pour into well-buttered sheet pan or cake pans and Bake at 350 (or lower) until center is clear.

FROSTING:

1/2 Cup melted butter
1/2 Cup of strawberries in juice
Confectioner's Sugar

Mix well. **caution** add only enough of the strawberries and juice to confectioner's sugar to desired consistency. Too much can make it runny.

If anybody makes this, I hope it turns out well:)

I've made my own creation today. I've made cake without using flour. Basically using same method but without the flour being present.

For the sponges
vegetable oil, for greasing
6 large eggs, separated
200g white caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
100g plain flour
25g ground almonds
50g butter
, melted and cooled

How did it turn out? Does it stack like a cake? How did you like the taste? Sorry for all the questions:)

It didn't turn out as a a cake but it was delicious.

Good for you. You should share in case someone else might want to try it.

Yeah.

I tried experimenting it without sugar and I experimented without eggs. I love cooking it is like doing a science experiment.

LOL, which means you're having so much fun. Good for you. I love to bake because it eases stress, and I love food, we've been having an affair for years:) There's no where to buy some of these recipes so you have to do it yourself.

Keep experimenting, Rumell:)

I love science and it is no different to cooking.

I just made a chocolate banana cream pie. It was delicious. But you can't let it sit around in the fridge for too long as the bananas will brown.

I got this link for 20 of the best pound cakes. I thought some of you might like to have it. Even if you don't bake one, it makes you hungry just reading the list--LOL!

https://www.tasteofhome.com/collectio...

Wow.

We made hot cross buns and white bread rolls yesterday for the first time. They was delicious.
So excited to have been invited to join this group, other than reading my ultimate passion is baking & cooking. X

Made a taco salad w/green goddess dressing tonight

Last week we made a REESES PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE BROWNIES

Yield: 16-20 BrowniesCategory: DessertMethod: OvenCuisine: American
INGREDIENTS
BROWNIE
3/4 cup (168g) unsalted butter, melted
1 cup (207g) sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
3/4 cup (98g) all purpose flour
6 tbsp (43g) natural unsweetened cocoa
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE
2 cups (12 oz | 340g) white chocolate chips
1 cup (240ml) sweetened condensed milk
1 cup (280g) peanut butter
1 cup (145g) chopped reeses (about 8 full sized)
TOPPING
1 cup (6 oz) semi sweet chocolate chips
1 tbsp shortening
1/2 cup (73g) chopped Reeses

INSTRUCTIONS
TO MAKE THE BROWNIE:
1. Preheat oven to 350°F (176°C). Grease a 9×9 baking pan or line it with parchment paper or aluminum foil, which you can use to remove the brownies from the pan when they are done.
2. In a medium sized bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
3. In another medium sized bowl, combine the butter, sugar and vanilla extract.
4. Add the eggs and mix until well combined.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and mix until well combined.
6. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and spread evenly.
7. Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out with a few moist crumbs.

TO MAKE THE FUDGE AND TOPPING:
8. Combine the white chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk and peanut butter in a metal or glass bowl. Set the bowl over a pot of simmering water (or use a double boiler).
9. Stir the mixture continuously until everything is melted and smooth. The fudge mixture will start out thinner, but thicken as the white chocolate melts. It’ll even seem a little crumbly when finished. It’s ok.
10. Remove the fudge from the heat and gently stir in the chopped reeses.
11. Pour the fudge mixture on top of the brownies and press into an even layer. The fudge mixture should start to come together as you press it onto the brownie.
12. Set brownies in refrigerator to set, 4-5 hours.
13. For the topping, add the chocolate chips and shortening to a microwave safe bowl. Microwave in 15 second increments until the chocolate and shortening are melted and smooth.
14. Spread chocolate into an even layer over the fudge, then sprinkle with chopped Reeses.
15. Cut brownies into bars. Store brownies in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Brownies are best for 3-4 days, but should be ok for up to 5-6 days.

Wow. I am so excited to see what everyone has been up to with their bakes.

Rumell wrote: "Wow. I am so excited to see what everyone has been up to with their bakes."

Thump up! ;)

Yesterday I baked a Lemon- Poppy seed cake. The batter was awesome and it was beautiful when I put it in the oven- but then when I took it out it went flop... it still tasted really good but I do want to know why cakes sometimes collapse! Maybe somebody can tell me?

Hazel wrote: "Yesterday I baked a Lemon- Poppy seed cake. The batter was awesome and it was beautiful when I put it in the oven- but then when I took it out it went flop... it still tasted really good but I do w..."

Did you open the door?

Emily wrote: "Hazel wrote: "Yesterday I baked a Lemon- Poppy seed cake. The batter was awesome and it was beautiful when I put it in the oven- but then when I took it out it went flop... it still tasted really g..." I think I opened it twice to check if it was ready since it ended up needing to bake longer than the recipe said to. Would that be the reason?

I have made lasagne bake.

Rumell wrote: "I have made lasagna bake." I LOVE lasagna- it is part of our traditional Christmas dinner.

Rumell wrote: "I have made lasagne bake."

I love Lasagne. Have you try taco lasagne?

Hazel,

Sinking cakes:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/gui...

https://cheftalk.com/threads/why-do-c...

I thought the second one was pretty interesting, as one of the chaps on the discussion thread discusses the reasons behind sinking.

Dracula wrote: "Rumell wrote: "I have made lasagne bake."

I love Lasagne. Have you try taco lasagne?"

Yes. I have tried them.