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Your Daily Sweets: What Are You Making and Baking? (2017 – )

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Shel_B

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2 hours ago, TdeV said:

@OlyveOyl, that looks so totally scrumptious!

 

Could you please post a photo of the baking tin? Dimensions, too.

 

 

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Smithy

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16 hours ago, OlyveOyl said:

It’ is Nordic Ware’s  5 cup Lotus Mold. Amazon has all the info!

 

You mean this one? (eG-friendly Amazon.com link)

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OlyveOyl

OlyveOyl

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@ElsieD I tried one apple and thought it was very uninteresting!The title of the book  is actually “Snacking Cakes”, not Snackable as I inadvertently titled it.

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ElsieD

ElsieD

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12 minutes ago, OlyveOyl said:

@ElsieD I tried one apple and thought it was very uninteresting!The title of the book  is actually “Snacking Cakes”, not Snackable as I inadvertently titled it.

The ones I've made, some more than once are Swirled Jam Cake page 68, Salty Caramel Peanut Butter Cake p.109, Sparkling Gingerbread P. 123, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake P. 151.  I did not care for Mostly Apples Cake P.53 or the Powdered Donut Cake p. 93.  One i have bookmarked to make is All the Spices Cake P. 88.  Which ones have you made?

oli

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Some of those from the book sound real interesting.

 

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Tropicalsenior

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When you have talked about the cakes from this book I have usually Googled them and been able to find them on the Internet.

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OlyveOyl

OlyveOyl

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@ElsieD From the “ Snacking Bakes” book, I’ve made the peanut butter and jam cake twice, once with pistachio butter, once with hazelnut butter.  Also made the Mazurkas which were very good but unbearable sweet.

From the “Snacking Cakes” book, in addition to the Cocoa Yogurt Cake which I’ve made several times with sour cream rather than yogurt.  I’ve also made the Grapefruit White Chocolate cake, Lemon/Lime variation which again was terribly sweet.  And last, the Powdered Donut Cake, I’ve made it twice using self rising flour, we enjoyed it. 😁

All of the recipes came from internet sources @Tropicalsenior

 

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ElsieD

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58 minutes ago, OlyveOyl said:

@ElsieD From the “ Snacking Bakes” book, I’ve made the peanut butter and jam cake twice, once with pistachio butter, once with hazelnut butter.  Also made the Mazurkas which were very good but unbearable sweet.

From the “Snacking Cakes” book, in addition to the Cocoa Yogurt Cake which I’ve made several times with sour cream rather than yogurt.  I’ve also made the Grapefruit White Chocolate cake, Lemon/Lime variation which again was terribly sweet.  And last, the Powdered Donut Cake, I’ve made it twice using self rising flour, we enjoyed it. 😁

All of the recipes came from internet sources @Tropicalsenior

 

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What cake is that?

oli

oli

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1 hour ago, OlyveOyl said:

@ElsieD From the “ Snacking Bakes” book, I’ve made the peanut butter and jam cake twice, once with pistachio butter, once with hazelnut butter.  Also made the Mazurkas which were very good but unbearable sweet.

From the “Snacking Cakes” book, in addition to the Cocoa Yogurt Cake which I’ve made several times with sour cream rather than yogurt.  I’ve also made the Grapefruit White Chocolate cake, Lemon/Lime variation which again was terribly sweet.  And last, the Powdered Donut Cake, I’ve made it twice using self rising flour, we enjoyed it. 😁

All of the recipes came from internet sources @Tropicalsenior

 

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Looks like you made a modification with what looks like some sort of jam/preserves

Katie Meadow

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I have Snacking Cakes but not Bakes. My favorite recipe from that book is the Simple Sesame Cake.I just love it. And it is fabulous toasted the next morning for breakfast. I agree that the Mostly Apple cake was not great. The Coconut lime cake was good, but you have to really love coconut, since the flavor is intense. I made the doughnut cake and it was good but not outstanding. I've tried a lot of doughnut cakes and finally admit that none have been as good as a good donut. The jam swirl cake was meh.     

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ElsieD

ElsieD

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I have both of those, one hardcopy and one Kindle.  Another great little book is Small Batch Cakes by Edd Kimber.  One recipe that I have made many times from that book is Sweet and Salty Chocolate Cake.  I make 1/2 of the recipe and bake it in a 6" round pan.  The icing includes dulce de leche.  I'm making it again tomorrow.

 

I thought the jam cake was so-so when I made it the first time.  I decided it needed more jam so when I made it again I doubled the jam.  It was delicious.

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oli

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55 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

I have both of those, one hardcopy and one Kindle.  Another great little book is Small Batch Cakes by Edd Kimber.  One recipe that I have made many times from that book is Sweet and Salty Chocolate Cake.  I make 1/2 of the recipe and bake it in a 6" round pan.  The icing includes dulce de leche.  I'm making it again tomorrow.

 

I thought the jam cake was so-so when I made it the first time.  I decided it needed more jam so when I made it again I doubled the jam.  It was delicious.

If anyone can link me to the recipe for Sweet and Salty Chocolate Cake, I would greatly appreciate it.

Pete Fred

Pete Fred

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I was browsing some of the baking recipes over the weekend on the Glen and Friends YouTube channel. It was a good watch.

 

I made the Almond Slices from a 1936 book promoting an aluminium (al-yoo-min-ee-um 😉) cookware company...

 

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Calling them almond slices is a bit misleading. It's really just a visual thing; they don't in any way taste of almonds, just cinnamon. But the texture was spot-on with that perfect biscuity crunch. I'll make them again and switch up the flavourings.

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BeeZee

BeeZee

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That does look like (as he notes in the video) a perfect biscuit to have with tea - my first thought is if a bit of almond extract would help with punching up the flavor?

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast" - Oscar Wilde

Pete Fred

Pete Fred

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13 hours ago, BeeZee said:

...my first thought is if a bit of almond extract would help with punching up the flavor?

 

My thoughts, too. So I made some more with a generous dose of almond extract replacing the cinnamon...

 

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The raw dough smelled and tasted almondy - almost too almondy, in that artificial way. But they baked up surprisingly muted. Go figure.

 

No worries. I imagine it will be fine with vanilla, cardamom, tonka, etc...

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