What have you baked today?

Finefoot

Home made pizza which went down so well, boys have not yet sniffed out the chocolate brownies. So, thats tomorrow's afternoon treat with a cup of tea. For them, not for me. DH will have a banoffe pie thats setting in the fridge.

uolypool

Son has a no lesson day today and so is studying at home.Have just come down stairs to find he is making a Christmas cake ,:jHe made one last year and it was beautiful .

jcr16

i'm gonna make a batch of biscuits. didn't get chance yesterday to make the hobnob's.

but today i'm planing gingerbread men, some shortbread biscuits and some choc fork biscuits. will make the hobnobs over weekend.

dinner tonight is a curry.

angeltreats

uolypool wrote: »

Son has a no lesson day today and so is studying at home.Have just come down stairs to find he is making a Christmas cake ,:jHe made one last year and it was beautiful .

I just thought "but it's far too early" and then I remembered it's September already! Scary.

I don't know if I'll bother with a Christmas cake this year. I still have half of last year's.

SunnierDays

Have bread baking as I type, I am also going to pop in a lemon drizzle cake and I have the filling simmering to pop into a pie for tea tonight

x-Princess-Vikki-x

Fairy cakes.. because thats all I can bake! ^_^

kippers

x-Princess-Vikki-x wrote: »

Fairy cakes.. because thats all I can bake! ^_^

They look so fab. I love to see cakes on a cake stand as well.

meritaten

inspired by my success with Apple tart and then Blackberry Tarts, and after watching Nigella make honeycomb - which i USED to make loads of when the kids were little...............I decided to make honeycomb!
well...............I THINK I have invented a new sweet and am going to call it 'HoneyGum'. It looks, smells and tastes exactly like honeycomb - the difference being, you get a few crunches then it magically changes to a consistency of chewy toffee which lasts for at least ten minutes before mysteriously dissolving completely! oh and one other magical property is that it sticks the top teeth to the bottom teeth at the chewy stage and silence reigns! both my OH and my youngest son were taste testers for this one and they both agreed - I may be on to a real winner with this one (but I aint sure exactly where I went wrong as I followed the recipe to the letter!)

champys

Today I made a custard tart for the first time - we have hens now, and good egg production, so I'd like to get this in my repertoire. The result wasn't that good (I used a recipe found online) - does any of you have a tried and tested method?
I baked the pastry blind first (which I never do with things like quiche - but the recipe said so). The end result was too dark, nearly burnt at the bottom and the custardy bit looks too brown as well. It sticks to the tin quite badly. But on the upside, it tastes quite nice!
Can I get away with not blind baking? Do I need a different type of pastry? What oven temperature would you recommend, and how long should I bake it for?
A good recipe and your advice would be much appreciated!

Long_tall_sally

I made two apple cruimbles today, one for tomorrow & one for the freezer, 1 scrummy looking chocolate cake, 1 gluten free victoria sponge and 16 gluten free sultana scones. Why does my preparation time though always take twice the amount it states on recipes?!