#adventures in baking

[sunmontuewrites]

Chocolate cake with caramel buttercream.

[feckineejit]

Realising how much of a neurodivergant geek you are can be quite humbling.

What do you mean most people don't name their sourdough starters after book characters?

Anyway, this is Neil Josten and Andrew Minyard.

[fictionadventurer]

Microwave snickerdoodle (the only kind of cookie I had time to make) to celebrate St. Hildegard's feast day

[irish-belle]

Cheddar and Chive Biscuits 😋

[blackthornwren]

Brie and pear tarts were made with only a minor alteration. Living in the middle of nowhere means the chances of finding phyllo pre-made mini tarts goes down exponentially, therefore one must attempt to create their own.

But! They smell amazing and I'm getting rave reviews, even with the makeshift shell 😂

[poppiesandpromises]

It's easily known

Perched upon her princess throne—

Love's stored in the scone

[ronsenburg]

I’m about to make a lamb cake with no mold, pray for me.

[rosemaidenvixen]

Me at the start of today: I think I'll try making shortbread, it's my favorite cookie and it's really simple, how hard can it be?

Me now: guess who figured out three ways to not make shortbread 🙃

[strawberryclementine]

I took a risk in changing the cake recipe I am using>:) we'll see how it goes

[oldfangirl81]

Baked Apple Cinnamon Sugar Donuts

The kiddo made the final call on what we baked. Using apple sauce makes them a little denser than I normally like but still tasty.

[hxans]

Trying to make a pavlova, husband requested instead of one big one I do six smaller ones like I did the first time I ever made pav. Pray for me it turns out well.

[sunmontuewrites]

[perfectlyvalid49]

This year's batch of Hamentaschen! They're apricot and earl grey flavored, and my husband says they're the only apricot hamentaschen he's ever actually liked.

Actually, he said "witchcraft!" But then he said the other part, so I'll take it.

[irish-belle]

Sourdough Bagels!

These were actually a very straightforward bake, the trickiest part is waiting for the dough to rise. I may play around with my shaping method but I think that I’ll have plenty of practice cuz the kids are delighted with them

You can find the recipe I used here!

[fictionadventurer]

After reading Farmer Boy, I am extra glad I bought that Little House cookbook from a garage sale this summer. Never has a book made me hungrier.

I am delighted to report that the recipe for Birds' Nest Pudding sounds just as delicious as Laura's description made it sound.

[61below]

This summer I was fortunate enough to find a wild yeast bloom on one of my chokecherry trees. I harvested & dried those chokecherries, then soaked them in water til they fermented. Then I used that levain to jumpstart a buckwheat/sweet white rice flour gf sourdough starter. (The picture is literally day one, now it’s so bubbly it looks like hot air)

((If you don’t know what hot air candy is, oh my god run don’t walk to your nearest fancy candy store and try some NOW))

But the thing is? Right after I got this starter established, I needed to go overseas for 2 weeks and Mr61below already had far too much on his plate, so I put it in the fridge so he’d only need to feed it once. But the cold really did a number on it, and it took me two whole weeks to get it bubbly again. I was legit concerned I’d gone and fully killed it. But, now it’s happily churning away again, and this is my second loaf made with this baby.