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

[Katie Meadow]

6 hours ago, kayb said:

Re: Raisins.

 

I don't loathe them. Given the choice, I'll avoid them.

 

I can only quote Dorothy Parker: "This was not plain terrible. This was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."

 

Oh my god I love this quote! I know a lot of Dorothy Parker quotes but never heard this one.

 

If you read the NYT book review you know the feature profiling the reading habits of various public figures who are asked what literati they would invite to a dinner party. No one ever mentions her, but she would be at the top of my list. 

[Anna N]

1 hour ago, Katie Meadow said:

No one ever mentions her, but she would be at the top of my list. 

 I hope you wouldn’t be making martinis. 

[kayb]

2 hours ago, Anna N said:

 I hope you wouldn’t be making martinis. 

 

Oooohhh. Good one!

 

[Katie Meadow]

Well, two martinis, or maybe three. The problem is after two I tend to lose count, if not consciousness. Well, my husband is the martini tender in our house, so if there's a fourth Dorothy will be his problem. I'll be watching from under the table.

[chromedome]

14 hours ago, Katie Meadow said:

If you read the NYT book review you know the feature profiling the reading habits of various public figures who are asked what literati they would invite to a dinner party. No one ever mentions her, but she would be at the top of my list. 

 

A good choice, as long as you have a strong bladder. Supposedly back in the Algonquin days nobody wanted to leave the table, for fear of the maliciously perfect things she'd say behind your back. 

[lindag]

Back in the day, when I went to a school that didn't have a cafeteria, Mom would send me with lunch that often included these

 

 

 

[rotuts]

@lindag 

 

same here

 

w a PeanutButter and jelly sandwich or two.

 

for a while there was Hot Soup in the lunch pail. Campbell's of course

 

but those thermo's didn't last long of no more soup

 

I gather these days

 

one is not allowed to bring PB&J  sandwiches to school  

 

a bit sad  , that.

[Anna N]

 Even into his 60s my husband loved a box of raisins in his lunch. And if I have to take the raisins out for some baking I can’t resist at least one handful. So I’m awfully glad there are raisin haters else they might be as expensive as halibut. 

[BeeZee]

@lindag, we got the little raisin boxes in our lunch box also, and the empty box was turned into a kazoo. I prefer golden raisins to the dark ones now.

[lindag]

For most of my baking I prefer currants but I like raisins very much.

[pastrygirl]

Cakes for my niece's 1st birthday party yesterday.  Rainbow themed, if you can't tell

 

the "good" cake:

 

I was hoping that painting onto white fondant would be faster than kneading six different colors into it, but I think I was wrong.  It was vibrant, at least!

 

The smash cake:

Everybody hand-pipes white chocolate sprinkles in six different colors, right?

 

V 1,  Cake 0

 

[rarerollingobject]

Things I've made lately;

 

Strawberry mascarpone meringue trifle; which involved four layers of chewy coconut meringue, six punnets of fresh strawberries, an entire bag of freeze-dried strawberries, 1.5kg of mascarpone, 15 eggs, an entire jar of vanilla bean paste, a whole lotta sugar, and a trifle dish. Office morning teas; I rule em. 

 

 

Vanilla eclairs, also for office people:

 

 

Concrete cake, which is just layers of vanilla butter cake and French raspberry buttercream. I gifted it to my friend, look how happy she is! 

 

 

[ElsieD]

@rarerollingobject  Stunning, as always.  What is that very high bridge in the background?

[kayb]

I really, really want to work in your office.

 

[rarerollingobject]

5 hours ago, ElsieD said:

@rarerollingobject  Stunning, as always.  What is that very high bridge in the background?

 

Thats' the Sydney Harbour Bridge; if I turned the camera a little to the right, you'd have a splendid view of the Sydney Opera House. 

[ChocoMom]

Well, my days of artistic expression are on hold until I get more of the home interior done. So, until then, I am going with the get-er-done kind of baking. Friday, it was chocolate chip cookies. Today, it was apple pie.

 

[shain]

Honey cake. 

 

Due to recent posts on the forum I was getting worried that there is likely an exas of undesired raisins accumulating across the world, and so made my small contribution by including some in the cake.

 

Preference for raisins aside, I am very happy with this latest iteration of the cake. 

[RWood]

This seems to be the only style cake I ever make anymore . I really wish these brides had a sense of adventure. 

But, I have a couple of fun things coming up that will help get some variety.  This was almond with raspberries and ganache.

 

[cakewalk]

11 minutes ago, RWood said:

This seems to be the only style cake I ever make anymore . I really wish these brides had a sense of adventure. 

But, I have a couple of fun things coming up that will help get some variety.  This was almond with raspberries and ganache.

 

Oh how absolutely humdrum! <yawn>

[rotuts]

@shain 

 

would you post the Rx for the Honey Cake ?

 

many thanks

[shain]

@rotuts sure:

 

[cakewalk]

King Arthur Flour's Magic in the Middles. Haven't made them in a long time. What a good cookie!

[Shelby]

48 minutes ago, cakewalk said:

King Arthur Flour's Magic in the Middles. Haven't made them in a long time. What a good cookie!

OMG these look good.  Peanut butter in the middle?

[cakewalk]

54 minutes ago, Shelby said:

Peanut butter in the middle?

Yup. Chocolate cookie outside. Win-win.

[Captain]

I made a Pavlova for my wife's B'Day