#learning to bake

[not-in-front-of-the-klingons]

I made this! Peanut butter chocolate chip cookie cake with peanut butter buttercream, topped with mini Reese’s. First time I’ve ever made a two later cake, as well as my first ever buttercream.

[3vi3thealien]

Shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S

I made banana bread. This shit took 1:15 hrs to bake holy shitttt

[feed-my-sheep]

Strawberry Banana Bread Recipe

I made a strawberry banana bread and despite not reading the directions first and putting the ingredients in the wrong order.. it still turned out SO good! 🤤

🍓🍓🍓

Strawberry Crisp

I also made another strawberry crisp and shared it with some people.. they LOVED it so I highly recommend this recipe! ❤️

***not my recipes.. I've linked the recipes.

side note: neither of these contained cinnamon and they were made with relatively common baking ingredients, super quick and easy!

[thismuddledlife]

All I’ve done during quarantine is learn to bake (kinda) and gain a bunch of weight eating my creations. So anyway, here’s wonderwa—some oatmeal raisin cookies...

[cartoonconnie]

Year of Bread. New comic.

I’m learning how to make the breads I grew up with, like mantou (steamed buns), huajuan (twisted rolls), and congyou bing (stovetop scallion bread). ⁣⁣

It is comforting and stress-relieving, if also fattening! Still, I’m enjoying being a total beginner at something again. ⁣

With photos https://www.instagram.com/p/CAguswSg_4k

[errdayadventuring]

My first real attempt at baking and decorating. Lemon cake (Betty Crocker box mix with milk and butter instead of water and oil), raspberry Jello mousse filling, and vanilla buttercream frosting. I should have used stiffer buttercream for the Russian piped roses, but for one of my first attempts I'm pretty proud

[rhodeabode]

Apple Cinnamon Puff Pastry Danish - Rhode Abode

See how its made!

[neffnee-bakes-it-happen-blog]

Very Easy Boule Loaf

Surprise! This week comes with an extra bake! I wasn’t planning on doing this one until next week but A.J. is still on his vacation and, well, I was extremely bored. I cannot explain my excitement about this particular bake. In fact, this bake is so significant because the main reason I started this challenge was because I wanted to learn how to bake bread. I mean, I want to learn so many different things like pie, tarts, puddings, macarons, etc. But I really just wanted to make bread. And now I feel kind of dumb because I wanted to learn because I thought it was going to be WAY harder than it was.

This bake truly holds up to its name - very easy. 4 ingredients, one bowl, one pan, unbelievably amazing results. Before I began this bake I consulted a friend of mine @andrewfindsawesomethings for some tips and tricks because I don’t know anyone else that has baked more bread (and fantastically, I might add). His biggest piece of advice was to not knead the dough for more than 7 minutes. So to stay true to that I barely kneaded it and left it be as much as possible. 

I was fairly worried about how it would turn out during the baking process because the crust became a perfect golden brown but when I inserted a skewer into the center is pulled out with wet dough. But Andrew came through again and suggested I put tinfoil over the top to prevent it from burning while the inside continued cooking.

The final results were honestly so much better than I even anticipated. This bread loaf is PERFECT. The inside is soft and squishy. The crust is perfect and makes that sound, You know, the SOUND. Like in Disney’s Ratatouille they explain that perfect sound the crust makes when you squeeze it. I am tremendously proud of this loaf of bread and it’s so easy, so cheap, and so delicious that i can;t just not make it a new staple in our home. I can see myself baking this bread for guests or even just for some picnic sandwiches.

The book suggests that next time I make this I should try adding some different flavors such as poppy seeds or rosemary. Any suggestions are more than welcome. I might even be making this next weekend again when my parents come to visit.