What have you baked today?

marmiterulesok

I'm going to make a ginger cake today.It's for when I have visitors over and it's best if made a week in advance.I'm organised for once.

lillibet_dripping

I've been 'Hermanned'.
Made Herman the German Friendship cake to take to my friend along with a batch of sourdough starter.
(She's going to hate me:rotfl:)

VfM4meplse

marmiterulesok wrote: »

A chocolate orange cake:

www.thepinkwhisk.co.uk/2012/03/chocolate-orange-cake.html

It smells lovely,can't wait to try it!

This looks amazing! I'm going to give it a go w/o the egg and chocolate for a vegan version, but add a load of almonds instead. Does the pith make it bitter btw?

marmiterulesok

VfM4meplse wrote: »

This looks amazing! I'm going to give it a go w/o the egg and chocolate for a vegan version, but add a load of almonds instead. Does the pith make it bitter btw?

I took the pith out,plus the ends when I cut up the orange.

Could you use carob as a substitute for chocolate?What do you replace the eggs with?

I'm not convinced that it needs 200g of chocolate.When I make it again,I'm going to try with 100g only.

Do let me know how it turns out.I love almonds.

VfM4meplse

marmiterulesok wrote: »

I took the pith out,plus the ends when I cut up the orange.

Could you use carob as a substitute for chocolate?What do you replace the eggs with?

I'm not convinced that it needs 200g of chocolate.When I make it again,I'm going to try with 100g only.

Do let me know how it turns out.I love almonds.

Ground linseeds - 1 tsp to 3tsp water is the equivalent of one egg, it has the same stringy quality about it. Buy them ground though, they are hell on earth to crush yourself!

marmiterulesok

I'm making Fochabers gingerbread today.

craigywv

i know this sounds like i cant cook, i can actually lol, but i need to know how to make an apple crumble, just the actual topping pls away to stew my apples so hopefully by the time they done one of you lovely peeps will have let me know how to do it thank-u!!!xxx

marmiterulesok

craigywv wrote: »

i know this sounds like i cant cook, i can actually lol, but i need to know how to make an apple crumble, just the actual topping pls away to stew my apples so hopefully by the time they done one of you lovely peeps will have let me know how to do it thank-u!!!xxx

Hi,
To make a crumble topping you need:
100g plain flower
100g sugar
100g unsalted butter
100g ground almonds or porridge oats

Mix the flour and sugar.Add the butter (cut up into pieces) and rub in to the flour/sugar mix with your fingers until it looks like coarse crumbs.Stir in the oats or almonds.This is enough for 6 servings.

Hope it's good!

VfM4meplse

marmiterulesok wrote: »

Hi,
To make a crumble topping you need:
100g plain flower
100g sugar
100g unsalted butter
100g ground almonds or porridge oats

That's very scientific! This is one area of baking in which I use the graduated eyeball method - helps me to cut down on the butter and sugar content and still tastes just fine.

building_with_lego

DS (4) and I have made a Tropical Fruit Loaf today, as he's been sent home for the holidays with a cooking bag from school. We've baked and iced the cake, the children have eaten some for pudding, and now [STRIKE]we[/STRIKE] I just need to upload the photos onto the computer, print the photos off, write in the book from the cooking bag about our baking experience and glue in the printed photos. No job like motherhood, eh?