What have you baked today?

crazystace

Kids both in for dinner tonight so I'm doing roast lamb. I'm on celeb slim so giving the roast spuds a miss but will tuck into the rest of the veg to make up for it!!

dizzybuff

lemon tort with lemon icing , and roast chuckin in as we speak.

scotsaver

Made some Choc chip cookies and some Fruit Teacakes.

Hippeechiq

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Wrong temperature hipeechiq, I would say too low if you had to cook them that long. I use tub Stork sometimes and it doesn't make much difference to the bake quality, its really only the flavour that's different. Low temp for a long time will overcook anything. How are you, we've been missing you on the Tough thread?

Thanks for the reply Jackie Hmmm :think: I also thought that it may be a too low temp thing, but then why didn't they flatten and spread? Doesn't there have to be x amount of heat for them to kind of "melt" and therefore flatten before they start to harden up/cook?

I thought maybe the temp was too high and "set" them (for want of a better word) before they had a chance to flatten and spread IYSWIM

Then again I suppose it must be because the temp is too low, as everything I cook/bake is taking longer than it should.....I'm a bit loathe to bake anything else until I can work out what the problem is.

I'm good now thank you Had a tough couple of weeks with my daughter, followed by a water infection, that took it's toll on me, which is why I've been absent for a while.

Thank you also for your supportive posts a couple of weeks back, they didn't go unnoticed or unappreciated :kisses3:

bluebag

Hippeechiq, glad your're feeling better.

Just made some almond and cherry buns with dribbly icing, everyone is drooling. Haven't baked for quite some time but the cost of cakes just recently is ridiculous.

slowlyfading

Fruit scones

albacookie

jamsandwhich wrote: »

Does anyone else struggle with recipes from the Hummingbird bakery book? I find them really stodgy and sometimes very flat - have gone back to my good old Be-ro book.

I love the Hummingbird book - made the raspberry cheescake brownies last week which were amazing and I'm just waiting for some red velvet cupcakes to cool so I can ice them.

I do find some of the bigger cakes take longer to cook than the book says though - the pound cake needed half as long again to have a skewer come out clean and it was still very moist - I'd happily have had it a bit drier.

I made bread for the first time ever today! Used Jamie Oliver's basic recipe and added some sun dried tomatoes - yum!

hilstep2000

I had a chicken from M & S yesterday. Today made a leek, ham and chicken pie, a dozen jam tarts and a jam pastie! I bought the £10 dinners from M & S with £20 worth of vouchers from Pigsback. Three days meals for two of us for £0! Oh and I've got enough pie for another meal, so really four days dinners!

debtmess

can anyone help with a baking problem

when i first got my silicone pans they were great, now everything is sticking, made victoria sponges but there falling apart so no hope of getting out the pans in one piece, will now just have a cake mess

MoaningMyrtle

The Hummingbird Bakery Book has a lot of negative reviews for the quantities and cooking times etc. There are some revisions on the Hummingbird Bakery website. I've only made one thing from it so far.

Today I have made crumpets (in the middle of making them) and the beetroot cake from the Nigella Christmas Book. It's the Scarlet Speckled Loaf Cake -The book is one of my favourites.