What did you bake today ? OK if not from scratch

[NannyBeBe]

Pillsbury cinnamon rolls for breakfast; have a Marie Callendar;s dutch apple pie in the oven for tomorrow's festivities. That's the extent of my baking. I love cooking; hate baking.

 

[Liz]

I made banana bread this morning. I make it often and it looked normal going into the oven but when it was done it I must have missed an ingredient! It looked really odd but basically tastes fine!

 

[FigmentSpark]

I'm porch-dropping dinner to a bereaved friend tonight and just threw a lemon-poppy seed cake in the oven now for them. I recently got a set of funky, silicone pans shaped like flowers that I've never used before so I'm really excited to see how it comes out.
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If you get a chance, post photos. I'd love to see the results.

 

[ronandannette]

If you get a chance, post photos. I'd love to see the results.

Oh, I sent it off already without taking a picture. It went OK but I'll do it differently next time. I put the floppy silicone mold on a big, dark pizza pan in the oven and it made the relief on the cake bake darker than the rest. Not terrible and it did make the detail of the flower really stand out but not exactly how it's meant to work, I think.

 

[disneychrista]

I just made sourdough dough. It is doing the first rise now. I will shape it and put it in the refrigerator to proof overnight and bake first thing in the morning before it get too hot.

 

[AnnaS]

DH made a pound/sponge cake today from scratch!! He does better than me -

 

[LeslieLou]

Small batch of banana muffins - tried a new recipe and it’s tasty
Made lasagna roll ups for the freezer and cooked taco meat to use later this week
Still have butter out on the counter to make something...

 

[Buzz Rules]

 

[NYCgrrl]

Since here in Australia , Victoria has gone into COVID lockdown for at least 7 days my son’s sporting weekend was cancelled. Instead the team came to our suburb in NSW so I’ve made an 11lb smoked brisket, 5lb pulled pork, 2lb honey bourbon chicken, 3 dozen muffins, 2 dozen m&m cookies, 2 dozen brookies and 2 dozen choc mint bliss balls. I’ve also declared that I will not be cooking for the rest of the weekend LOL.

See how given lemons you can make lemonade?
You pack a nice amount of provisions away,

 

[randumb0]

I need to stay away from this thread. I'm almost at my target weight range.

 

[NYCgrrl]

I need to stay away from this thread. I'm almost at my target weight range.

I suspect more angel food cake will be in my near future.....

@ronandannette-Could you post your lemon poppyseed cake recipe?
I made it using lemon zest and sugar mixed together as the main carrier of flavor and it’s just not “lemony” enough.

 

[ronandannette]

I suspect more angel food cake will be in my near future.....

@ronandannette-Could you post your lemon poppyseed cake recipe?
I made it using lemon zest and sugar mixed together as the main carrier of flavor and it’s just not “lemony” enough.

Full disclosure? I use a Betty Crocker lemon mix as a base, use butter instead of oil, add a few tbsp. of sour cream and substitute lemon juice for half the water and throw in poppyseed until it looks right. I zest a lemon and put half in the batter and use half for garnish on to of the glaze. I suspect the cake mix has dehydrated lemon oil extract in it that provides the kick, but you can also buy it bottled to use very sparingly.

 

[DLgal]

Maybe it cuts the sugar

It has cornstarch in it which will keep the cookies soft for several days. It's actually not recommended to use as the primary sugar in cookies, mostly because you need hard sugar crystals to properly cream butter (the sharp edges cut into the fat molecules better). If you use powdered sugar, you will have soft, cakey cookies. I'm not a fan of those kind. I like mine crispy on the outside with a chewy inside.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Full disclosure? I use a Betty Crocker lemon mix as a base, use butter instead of oil, add a few tbsp. of sour cream and substitute lemon juice for half the water and throw in poppyseed until it looks right. I zest a lemon and put half in the batter and use half for garnish on to of the glaze. I suspect the cake mix has dehydrated lemon oil extract in it that provides the kick, but you can also buy it bottled to use very sparingly.

Nothing wrong with that.
My Nana used Duncan Hines cake mixes as a base for almost all her cakes and with judicious additions it was excellent. It’s all in the knowledge which I don’t have- cook, yes, baker, nooooo .

Still have tons of lemon stuff left so on to a different recipe where they tell me everything to do, LOL.

 

[ronandannette]

Nothing wrong with that.
My Nana used Duncan Hines cake mixes as a base for almost all her cakes and with judicious additions it was excellent. It’s all in the knowledge which I don’t have- cook, yes, baker, nooooo .

Still have tons of lemon stuff left so on to a different recipe where they tell me everything to do, LOL.

I don't love baking either, which is why I fake stuff like this quite a bit. And Duncan Hines was the brand my Dear Mom swore by.

 

[Carol_]

Pillsbury chocolate chip cookies. Nobody wants them.
I’m on keto and avoiding this thread like the plague, but I’m down 15 lbs in 3 months, so looks like I won’t be baking much… unless I feel the need to make my own fat bombs… which I don’t, yet.

 

[NannyBeBe]

I made Ghiardelli brownies and have a big pan of my wonderful baked beans in the oven, cooking low and slow, for our dinner tonight.

 

[mmouse37]

What a rainy weekend here in the Northeast. We were supposed to go a BBQ on Saturday but it got rained out and was moved to today (which turned out nice!) The red, white and blue tie dye cake I made on Friday we wound up eating since it would not be fresh for today. So, I made another one. This one was a bit of a different tie dye methods from the last one. I call it my firecracker cake. I used Duncan Hines boxed white cake and added a bit of almond extract to boost the flavor.











And I made a macaroni salad. I love Chef John's Macaroni Salad recipe.

Chef John's Classic Macaroni Salad | Allrecipes

MJ

 

[violina]

Blueberry streusel muffins for breakfast this week

 

[ronandannette]

What a rainy weekend here in the Northeast. We were supposed to go a BBQ on Saturday but it got rained out and was moved to today (which turned out nice!) The red, white and blue tie dye cake I made on Friday we wound up eating since it would not be fresh for today. So, I made another one. This one was a bit of a different tie dye methods from the last one. I call it my firecracker cake. I used Duncan Hines boxed white cake and added a bit of almond extract to boost the flavor.

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And I made a macaroni salad. I love Chef John's Macaroni Salad recipe.

Chef John's Classic Macaroni Salad | Allrecipes

MJ

Good job! I love the way it looks without the icing!