What have you baked today?

furndire

I made a left overs pie at my d in l and sons, from cooked parsnip, carrots a bit of broccoli, a few bits of leftover scraps of bacon, and a few bits of chicken which had been cooked in gravy. I made a sort of white sauce with a knob of flora and wholemeal flour and milk + 3/4 of a chicken stock cube. mixed it all up and topped it off with a very thick pie crust made from wholemeal self raising flour, and flora (roughly 1/2 weight fat to flour) couldn't find any scales. Could only find a small amount of salt, so used the other 1/4 of stock cube in with drop of cold water to add to pastry. The pastry was really sticky - no time to let it rest in fridge, so had to semi roll it out and pick up bits to put on top of dish. Then kept my fingers crossed that it wouldn't be as much as a disaster as it looked.
30 mins later 6 empty plates. Grandaughter, who is 5 next month, said to her mum - why does grandma makes the best food - really made my day.
Served it up with cooked sliced new potatoes that I sprinkled with a little oil, and the bit of salt I did find, cooked on a baking tray at same time as the pie.

purplevamp

After reading about this infamous chocolate and beetroot cake I thought I'd give it a go. It was incredibly messy to make and the mix kept splatting everywhere :rotfl:. Well, I told the kids I'd made a chocolate cake and they gobbled it up...then I told them it had beetroot in it. Surprisingly they still liked it, and want it again!:T

jcr16

i made some jam tarts.

kookgekje

I got a Kenwood Chef for my birthday recently and have been stuffing my family full of cakes and homemade breads.

Today's plan is to try making a brioche loaf for the first time and I have some dodgy looking banana's in the fruit bowl, so I'll be making a banana cake as well.

trigger2

I made bread, a victoria sponge & some choc chip biscuits - you know the sort - recipe makes 30 & I made 8 !

I make bread by hand but am thinking of looking for one on freecycle, do they make much difference ?

regards

trigger

bonar

I just made rhubarb crumble x5. (one for all of the family will be delivering them tomorrow) from the first of the rhubarb from the allotment its blooming gorgeous. used a Jaime oliver recipe for the first time. really impressed with this one.

stroppyjock

I baked a banana loaf today and used plain instead of SR Flour, now have a banana brick :mad::mad:

kookgekje

trigger2 wrote: »

I made bread, a victoria sponge & some choc chip biscuits - you know the sort - recipe makes 30 & I made 8 !

I make bread by hand but am thinking of looking for one on freecycle, do they make much difference ?

regards

trigger

Do you mean the Chef? It's a fair bit quicker for bread I find and takes the hard work out of the kneading. Some of the cakes I make though, like banana bread, I still do by hand.

Kadeeae

Currently have banana walnut muffins in the oven . . . smells divine

jackieglasgow

Chocolate sponge loaf with chocolate icing and pitta bread for dinner which is Chilli. Pittas are yum! I am resisting the cake. :A