2024 Edition - What are you baking?

[pepperhead212]

Last night, after cleaning up from the dinner, I made another one of those Death By Chocolate Banana Breads, since I had 3 ultra ripe bananas, that I had to use, and this is the best one to make with those.

This loaf I made with yogurt, instead of buttermilk, which I was out of, and I put a tsp of coconut flavoring in, which wasn't really enough - next time, I'll use 2 tsp.

This Death By Chocolate Banana Bread Is Almost Too Good

Cocoa powder and chocolate chips make this banana bread a chocolate lover's dream.

www.delish.com

Death By Chocolate Banana Bread by pepperhead212, on Flickr

First slice of Death By Chocolate Banana Bread, for breakfast. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

 

[taxlady]

Pepper, I betcha you could make muffins with that batter. I quit making banana bread. I just make banana nut muffins. It takes much less time to bake them and they are convenient in a "grab one" format.

 

[Kaneohegirlinaz]

I went "deep freezer diving" last week and found a bag of frozen Wild Blueberries that I had bought last February. When my Mother had to have a tooth pulled, I insisted that she stay with us for a few days after to recouperate. I made her all sorts of nice "soft foods" and she was really liking the smoothies. But I guess I missed the Blueberry flavor.
SO, long story ... I made Muffins.

I sprinkled some Sanding Sugar atop half the batch (to the right), meh, don't care for that look so much.

Sure tasted good though. I used Cake Flour that was also found at the bottom of the barrel. It's dated "opened 9-10-2019" Well, I'm guessing that it's still okay, as it was in the deep freeze all this time. Now I'm trying to remember what I had bought the cake flour for ... I think I had made this recipe.

 

[Kaneohegirlinaz]

Triple Chocolate Bundt® Cakes (half-sized), one for us and one to take to Bingo tonight!

My official taste tester gave it a big thumbs up

I had a small bit - yum!
I want to say I stole this recipe from @Cooking Goddess

 

[taxlady]

Yesterday a friend came over. She helped me make a Swedish Visiting Cake. @vitauta originally mentioned the recipe, back in March 2013. It is a really nice, quick and easy cake.

Swedish Visiting Cake Recipe

Try Swedish Visiting Cake! You'll just need 1 cup sugar, plus extra for sprinkling, Grated zest of 1 lemon, 2 large eggs, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon pure...

www.keyingredient.com

This is an old picture. I was obviously eager to try it. It's from 2013 March 16.

 

[rodentraiser]

I went "deep freezer diving" last week and found a bag of frozen Wild Blueberries that I had bought last February. When my Mother had to have a tooth pulled, I insisted that she stay with us for a few days after to recouperate. I made her all sorts of nice "soft foods" and she was really liking the smoothies. But I guess I missed the Blueberry flavor.
SO, long story ... I made Muffins.

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I sprinkled some Sanding Sugar atop half the batch (to the right), meh, don't care for that look so much.

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Sure tasted good though. I used Cake Flour that was also found at the bottom of the barrel. It's dated "opened 9-10-2019" Well, I'm guessing that it's still okay, as it was in the deep freeze all this time. Now I'm trying to remember what I had bought the cake flour for ... I think I had made this recipe.

Oh my lord. Please forgive me, Kaneohegirlinaz. I saw the picture before I read your post and thought you were going to tell us your muffins went bad and had mold on them. The second picture looks delicious, though.

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[msmofet]

Triple Chocolate Bundt® Cakes (half-sized), one for us and one to take to Bingo tonight!

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My official taste tester gave it a big thumbs up

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I had a small bit - yum!
I want to say I stole this recipe from @Cooking Goddess

YUM! Please post a link to the recipe. I love chocolate, nuts, and coconut.

 

[Kaneohegirlinaz]

YUM! Please post a link to the recipe. I love chocolate, nuts, and coconut.

Sure nuff!

Triple Chocolate Half-Sized Bundt® Cakes, One to Eat and One to Share

www.copymethat.com

 

[msmofet]

Thank you k

 

[msmofet]

Sure nuff!

Triple Chocolate Half-Sized Bundt® Cakes, One to Eat and One to Share

www.copymethat.com

You add pecans and coconut topping?

 

[Kaneohegirlinaz]

You add pecans and coconut topping?

yes.
But you could use anything, or just the ganache.
You do you though @msmofet - as I say on my blog, "a recipe is simply someone else's idea, take it and make it your own."

I just had an option for Christmas time!

 

[Cooking Goddess]

Triple Chocolate Bundt® Cakes (half-sized), one for us and one to take to Bingo tonight!

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My official taste tester gave it a big thumbs up

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I had a small bit - yum!
I want to say I stole this recipe from @Cooking Goddess

I don't think so! I might have made one cake in a Bundt pan once. When I had my mini bundts (6 shapes in one base), I would use them for mini meatloafs. The one I have now has been used exclusively for Sally Lunn bread, which I haven't made for a while. Need to make some soon.

@Kaneohegirlinaz, you need to figure out who you got the recipe from.

 

[Andy M.]

Yesterday was Apple Walnut Cake:

Today was Onion Bagels:

 

[pepperhead212]

I baked a loaf of banana coconut bread, with a generous cup of roasted walnuts. The coconut is some fresh, unsweetened grated coconut, I had in the freezer, and saw the bag in there, when getting the nuts. I used a little more than half whole wheat flour (1¼c), and a half cup each of sorghum flour, and red lentil flour, and only 3/4 c palm sugar - those bananas were so ripe they almost looked like ripe plantains!
Banana coconut bread. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

The banana coconut bread, with some roasted walnuts. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

 

[rodentraiser]

I made my pumpkin thingy tonight. First, I made the crust and I tried to warm the butter but I melted it instead. OK, fine, into the bowl it goes. I guess it ended up OK because I creamed it with the cream cheese and flour. Then I baked the crust.

Then I combined the rest of the cream cheese with the sugar. I should have had three paks of cream cheese and only had 1 1/2, but we will take what we can get.

Then I put together the pumpkin part. It's pretty much a no-brainer except when I went to mix in the cinnamon, well, let's just say we should not be pouring it out of the bottle into a teaspoon over the pumpkin. Yeah, I got more cinnamon than I needed.

But it all tasted great and although I don't have any whip cream to put on top - wait, I do, I have heavy cream in the fridge but I'll mix it tomorrow and post a pic then. Anyway, as I was saying, it's good.

 

[pepperhead212]

I baked another batch of potato rye today, this time a batch made with the end of the buttermilk I had, while making another fresh half gallon of the BM. I also used the end of the rye flour - about 2½ c - so I'll have to grind another batch of that. I made a sponge with this, a cup of mashed potatoes, 1/3 c cornmeal, and 1/3 c vital wheat gluten, plus 2 tsp instant yeast, and let it sit about 6 hours. Then I added the usual salt, caraway seeds, blackstrap, and vegetable oil, and I used about the last 4 c of WW flour, and less than a c of bread flour, to get the right stickiness, while kneading in the KA.
I oiled the ball of dough, then let it rise 75 min. Punched down, and divided it into about 32 oz and 40 oz loaves, shaped the loaves, covered, and let rise about 35 min. Then baked in a 300° convection oven for 40 and 45 minutes, before cooling on wire rack.
A 40 oz and a 32 oz loaf of Potato Rye, almost finished rising. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Finished Potato Rye, with large loaf baked 5 minutes longer. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

 

[Andy M.]

I cut our Thanksgiving menu down to eliminate some foods as we are traveling on Saturday. So instead of pies, I making a chocolate cake for our grandson's birthday and cookies.

Chocolate chip with nuts.

 

[msmofet]

Apple Pie

 

[Aunt Bea]

I cut our Thanksgiving menu down to eliminate some foods as we are traveling on Saturday. So instead of pies, I making a chocolate cake for our grandson's birthday and cookies.

Chocolate chip with nuts.
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Can you smuggle a sack of those through airport security to enjoy on the plane?

 

[msmofet]