Any Home Bakers Here?

[ronott1]

I made cookies last night, but I was so frazzled that I forgot half a cup of flour. At least it was a delicious mistake, they came out almost like lace cookies.

That is a nice mistake!

When a cake fails we will eat the results. I had one cake fall apart out of the pan. We called it chocolate mistake cake, gathered around is and ate the crumbles! Fun times!

 

[wyoDreamer]

Hoping that you guys can give me some advice - My coffee cake recipe comes out very delicate - it barely holds together for serving and it is a touch dry. What ingredient do you think I need to change to improve it:
- less flour
- more shortening
- more eggs
The flavor is fantastic and I don't want to change that too much. It is just the texture need to be improved just a little bit.

 

[Sylvyana]

Hoping that you guys can give me some advice - My coffee cake recipe comes out very delicate - it barely holds together for serving and it is a touch dry. What ingredient do you think I need to change to improve it:
- less flour
- more shortening
- more eggs
The flavor is fantastic and I don't want to change that too much. It is just the texture need to be improved just a little bit.

What type of flour are you using? How many eggs does it call for already?

 

[Sequel]

Hoping that you guys can give me some advice - My coffee cake recipe comes out very delicate - it barely holds together for serving and it is a touch dry. What ingredient do you think I need to change to improve it:
- less flour
- more shortening
- more eggs
The flavor is fantastic and I don't want to change that too much. It is just the texture need to be improved just a little bit.

I misread a coffee cake recipe once and put coconut in the batter. It was the most delicious coffee cake ever. I don’t know how it would change the flavor because I never made the recipe as written! But the texture is glorious! I know this isn’t the answer you’re looking for but it sure works for me!

 

[wyoDreamer]

The recipe was posted on page 10, post 97 of this thread.
I think I only put 1 egg in and the recipe calls for 2. That was probably why it was so dry this time.

 

[R2elk]

Hoping that you guys can give me some advice - My coffee cake recipe comes out very delicate - it barely holds together for serving and it is a touch dry. What ingredient do you think I need to change to improve it:
- less flour
- more shortening
- more eggs
The flavor is fantastic and I don't want to change that too much. It is just the texture need to be improved just a little bit.

I would start by adding one egg.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Grandma Elftman

6-12 cups flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 tbls salt
2 tbls yeast
3 - 6 cups water
1/3 cup olive oil

Heat water to 110°, put salt, sugar, and yeast in a bowl and pour water over and add oil, stir with wire whip until dissolved.
First Kneed
Stir in cups of flour until mixed well. Add more flour until you have a stiff dough and then kneed until dough is smooth and elastic
Cover and let rise about one hour.
Punch down and knead until smooth. Divide dough into thirds, shape into 3 loaves and let rise until doubled in size (about 1 hour) and then bake at 400° for 20-30 minutes. Bread is done when the bottom sounds hollow when you tap it and internal temperature is 195 to 205 degrees.

 

[jnicholes]

@ronott1 I just finished the sourdough bread. Does it look good? Also, according to some directions, I hear you have to let the sourdough flavor develop for 2 hours.

Is that correct?

Here is the recipe I used.

https://www.food.com/recipe/classic-san-francisco-sourdough-bread-154142

 

[N F C]

Hoping that you guys can give me some advice - My coffee cake recipe comes out very delicate - it barely holds together for serving and it is a touch dry. What ingredient do you think I need to change to improve it:
- less flour
- more shortening
- more eggs
The flavor is fantastic and I don't want to change that too much. It is just the texture need to be improved just a little bit.

I agree with @R2elk about adding the 2nd egg. Sometimes I'll also add an extra egg yolk (no white, just yolk) to make things less dry.

 

[N F C]

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@ronott1 I just finished the sourdough bread. Does it look good? Also, according to some directions, I hear you have to let the sourdough flavor develop for 2 hours.

Is that correct?

Here is the recipe I used.

https://www.food.com/recipe/classic-san-francisco-sourdough-bread-154142

Looks nice Jared, how does it taste?