The bakers' thread

[figbat]

Forgot to post here! On St Patrick’s day I decided to mark the occasion with some Guinness. In the form of a cake.

By the way, it didn’t sink in the middle (well not as much as it appears here), that’s a consequence of the quite slack cream cheese icing being dragged down when cut.

Quite a dense cake and not over-sweet. It used dark brown muscovado sugar, dark chocolate and cocoa (amongst other things). The generous ‘head’ gives a nice sweet boost.

 

[grldtnr]

Did you use 'Guinness' or other readily available stouts in the ingredients?
I once baked a fruit cake with Guinness it wasn't overly succesfull ,I had used wholemeal flour, because that why it required

 

[figbat]

Did you use 'Guinness' or other readily available stouts in the ingredients?
I once baked a fruit cake with Guinness it wasn't overly succesfull ,I had used wholemeal flour, because that why it required

 

[grldtnr]

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That's the proper stuff!

 

[newts]

My first attempt at making bread today was a Focaccia. Mrs N has given it her seal of approval😎

 

[Julia9054]

Sourdough potato and rosemary rolls from the Bake with Jack book.
With goats cheese and fig chutney

 

[Julia9054]

I wasn't ever going to do another sourdough starter after being enslaved by one during lockdown but here we are!
It does make fabulous bread.

 

[Legs]

It's my birthday and we've just come home from Costa Rica, so I tried recreating a tres leches for my birthday cake.

Let's just say that my pancreas may never forgive me!

 

[C R]

It's my birthday and we've just come home from Costa Rica, so I tried recreating a tres leches for my birthday cake.

Let's just say that my pancreas may never forgive me!

Unless you are diabetic your pancreas will be fine.

 

[figbat]

It's my birthday and we've just come home from Costa Rica, so I tried recreating a tres leches for my birthday cake.

Let's just say that my pancreas may never forgive me!

Mine too! Happy birthday birthdaymate!

 

[Legs]

Unless you are diabetic your pancreas will be fine.

It was a figure of speech, but thanks for the reassurance!

Mine too! Happy birthday birthdaymate!

Many happy returns!

 

[Reynard]

Happy Cake Day!

Been baking a succession of German fruit kuchen using plums, blackberries, apples and greengages.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

It's my birthday and we've just come home from Costa Rica, so I tried recreating a tres leches for my birthday cake.

I take there’s some reasonable explanation for the absence of photos of this tres leches cake?

 

[Legs]

I take there’s some reasonable explanation for the absence of photos of this tres leches cake?

A fair bit of it has been eaten…. I think my Dad took some ‘before’ photos (I made the cake and celebrated my birthday over the weekend while my parents were staying with us).

 

[newts]

This mornings bake, wholemeal ciabatta.