What have you baked today?

moonpixiewitch

Used up the out of date gf flour making banana cake and bread

rinabean

I made a chocolate beetroot cake. I feel tricked. Absolutely disgusting. I've never before cooked anything I've genuinely not been able to stomach. It tasted better raw than cooked, how does that work!?

thenanny2die4

A puff pastry slice/pie thingy, using up leftover roast chicken with some fried mushrooms and bits of bacon, mixed into a slightly cheesy white sauce. It was all going so well until I twigged I'd not assembled it on the baking tray. I do not advise trying to transfer pastry filled with warm mixture from one surface to another...

Apparently it was delicious, although it did look a little "rustic" once I'd patched it all back together. :rotfl:

bramble1

Bread will be done today! Two loaves i reckon.

Possibly some cookies too.

fingersxed

Rummer wrote: »

I made a batch of apple strudel muffins which are divine and have filled the house with a gorgeous spicy scent.

Also made a cheese and onion quiche for lunch tomorrow

Would love the recipe for the apple strudel muffins. Sound delish

Jo_King

Hello,

I had a great success with a fruit cake I made earlier in the year. Four things helped:

1) I put in a finely chopped bar of very dark chocolate (49p in B&M at the minute!) - you don't taste the chocolate but it makes the fruit even richer. It's even better with Maya Gold from Green and Black, but it's a bit pricey.
2) I doubled the recipe's amount of ground almonds (reducing the flour accordingly), which made the cake more moist.
3) Rachel Allen's tip of wrapping the cake, tin and all, immediately out of the oven in tin foil and leaving it to cool - it stops the cake drying out.
4) I used up some dregs of amaretto that I found in the back of a drink cupboard to soak the fruit. My my, that stuff is good.

Those are my tips. Now a request for help. As a victim of my own success I've had loads of requests for Christmas cakes. I'm happy to do them - they replace Christmas gifts quite nicely - but I've only got two tins the right size, and I've at least six requests.

I have a big square tin. It's about four times the volume of my 2 smaller tins. If I bake one big cake, cut it in four, put ribbons around the sides and decorate the top, will they keep all right? I'd like to do them this week, and get them out of the way.

Ta.

PixieDust

banana flapjack

daisiegg

I am in the process of making three types of alcoholic mini cupcakes to take to a party tomorrow night.....chocolate brandy, limoncello and raspberry vodka!

Justamum

I've just put a choc chunk cake in.

pickle18

Rummer wrote: »

I made a batch of apple strudel muffins which are divine and have filled the house with a gorgeous spicy scent.

Also made a cheese and onion quiche for lunch tomorrow

These sound amazing. I would love the recipe for these too