What did you bake today ? OK if not from scratch

[NYCgrrl]

Earlier this week made an apple kuchen and mailed it to the man’s bro for Hanukkah. Now I’m trying to make up my mind what dessert to bring to older sister’s for Christmas dinner and I’m veering towards a gingerbread buche de Noel but am not sure of the interior cream’s filling. it’ll come to me I guess.

 

[LoveDaisy]

I made a chicken pot pie for dinner to use up some leftover chicken.

 

[ramee]

These are in the oven now. The actual name is Gougeres. My first time making choux

 

[NYCgrrl]

@ramee just a heads up. You can freeze gougères if you like. Makes a great appetizers to have during the holidays for the unexpected.

 

[WorldWacky]

SOOO much baking this weekend. I made peanut butter blossoms, peanut butter cup cookies, coconut macaroons, chocolate chip cookies, raspberry almond thumbprints and the gingerbread dough that I froze so I can make those with my kids when they come home from college. I make so many varieties because everyone has their certain favorites. (Still have a bunch more to make.) But this year, I’m cutting most recipes in half so I don’t end up swimming in cookies! I just don’t have the freezer space!

 

[we"reofftoneverland]

Snickerdoodle cookies

 

[tony67]

Lots of baking this weekend now that the weather is changing and I have time.

Pretzels: Salt on top, but you can also do cinnamon sugar and butter as a dessert (but the price of butter is too damn high)


Pretzel Bread: Roasted garlic on top instead of salt. (had issues getting them out of the mold so they had risen nicely, but you have to take them out of the mold to boil them so they deflated going to look for something better.
( I refuse to pay $5 for 4 of these when I can make 8 for far less)



Used those with some fresh brats and Sauerkraut: Finish product with German mustard.


And for Dessert: Dark Chocolate Brownie cups with heath bar bits. Ice cream, whipped cream and more heath bar bits on top:



I also made a loaf of Brioche bread (lots of butter in that), but forgot to get a picture.
Used it to make French toast in the morning.

I highly recommend this bread maker, I use it for much of the stuff above, but also to make pizza dough.
It works well and makes a large loaf of bread.
I have had it for over a year at this point.
What I like is it makes a properly shaped loaf of bread and up to a three pound loaf..

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D82LJ4Q?psc=1&ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_ct_PEQ2D2ZRF1EHW7S1WJR3

 

[mmouse37]

Today I made cinnamon & sugar Palmiers and green grinch cookie. Both were good!

 

[mrsstats79]

Cookies - Pioneer Woman Raspberry cookies, peanut butter M & M cookies, snowball cookies and cookies with kisses.

 

[tony67]

Italian Bread with herbs and garlic

 

[disneydreamer1980]

Made safari themed cake pops for my nephews first bday party. They turned out cute

 

[pinkxray]

@mmouse37- do you mind sharing the recipe for the grinch cookies? I made one last year and found it very bland. I know most of them use cake mix but they all seem to differ a tiny bit. I’m debating on just making one with cake mix and hoping it’s not the recipe I used last year or trying a non cake mix version I found. DS is requesting them as his one cookie choice this year.

 

[Meriweather]

not from scratch (hangs head in shame) but I had a clearance cake mix to use and the grand kids will love them.
And then, not baked at all, but DD wanted them for one of her Christmas choices.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

I ordered out for a McDonalds and re-heated it. Not the hight of cuisine I know.

 

[LoveDaisy]

After a month long battle with a sinus infection (and 3 antibiotics) I’m finally feeling better and started baking.

Gooey chocolate butter cookies.

 

[AustinTink]

After a month long battle with a sinus infection (and 3 antibiotics) I’m finally feeling better and started baking.

Gooey chocolate butter cookies.

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Glad you’re feeling better. These look divine. Would you mind sharing the recipe?

 

[LoveDaisy]

Glad you’re feeling better. These look divine. Would you mind sharing the recipe?

They are super easy and a cheat recipe because they use a box cake mix.

Gooey chocolate butter cookies

 

[NYCgrrl]

I think I’ve got my gingerbread recipe for the year.
Decided to make a buche de Noel for Christmas Day dinner but wanted to make it with gingerbread.
Now since this is a rolled cake generally a sponge cake recipe is used as it’s a lighter texture. Yet I still wanted a very robust cake so all the spice flavors came through.
What to do what to do?
Obsessed throughout the nights reading the history of ginger bread and decided that using a 50/50 mixture of rye and cake flour was the answer as far as malleability. Upping the amount of spices and utilizing three different types of ginger gave it the fresh and spice laden taste I was looking for.

Now to get the eggnog flavor of the cream filling the way I imagine it.

 

[LoveDaisy]

I think I’ve got my gingerbread recipe for the year.
Decided to make a buche de Noel for Christmas Day dinner but wanted to make it with gingerbread.
Now since this is a rolled cake generally a sponge cake recipe is used as it’s a lighter texture. Yet I still wanted a very robust cake so all the spice flavors came through.
What to do what to do?
Obsessed throughout the nights reading the history of ginger bread and decided that using a 50/50 mixture of rye and cake flour was the answer as far as malleability. Upping the amount of spices and utilizing three different types of ginger gave it the fresh and spice laden taste I was looking for.

Now to get the eggnog flavor of the cream filling the way I imagine it.

I cannot wait to hear how it turns out. I’m impressed you worked through how to make it malleable m. I love gingerbread cake so this sounds amazing!

 

[LoveDaisy]

I made chocolate chip cookies and the dough for whipped shortbread, I’ll let that sit in the fridge overnight and bake it in the morning.