Any Home Bakers Here?

[BigBlueHen53]

On hot days, I bake in the morning. We are usually fairly cool in the morning.

We are not supposed to get Tornadoes here in the Sacramento Valley. But we do! They are not too powerful though.

Denver rarely gets tornados either, but I saw on the news where one struck south of there today. I remember when one hit there when I was a girl. Terrible storm, the Platte flooded and filled up the underpass just a few blocks from my house. <shudder> You just don't know what the westher is goingvto do!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Literally freezing here. Using the oven as much as I can, just to keep warm.

Welcome! What do you bake?

 

[MotherofOrpies]

On hot days, I bake in the morning. We are usually fairly cool in the morning.

We are not supposed to get Tornadoes here in the Sacramento Valley. But we do! They are not too powerful though.

In the morning we usually have 22 C in the house and during the day it heats up to almost 25 C, way too hot for me outside we usually have around 30 up to 38 C, I am really scared when we’ll hit 40

 

[ronott1]

In the morning we usually have 22 C in the house and during the day it heats up to almost 25 C, way too hot for me outside we usually have around 30 up to 38 C, I am really scared when we’ll hit 40

We have been cooler than normal here. yesterday it was 88f though and next week we go up to 100 F for two days. That is almost 38C.

I installed a three zone mini split last month and it will get some use soon!

 

[cavemanrich]

Baked this Cherry cake. Will call it
CHERRY CAKE YEAST RAISED because is yeast raised. I used a common yeast cake dough recipe, and followed the amounts. The cherry portion is my experimental idea. It turned out great,, so sharing the recipe. I kept track of my amounts.

Ingredients.
1 can of Cherry pie filling
400 Grams Flour. I used All-purpose
2 Tsp. or 1 envelope dry yeast.
200 ml. milk
80 grams Sugar
80 grams butter. (melted and cooled)
2 egg yolks
Pinch of salt.

Here is my play by play.
This is the Cherry pie filling I used. Any other brand would work equally well. 15 oz can.

I placed the cherries onto a strainer, and with my warmed milk, I washed all the syrupy juice portion off the fruit. I had to do the rinsing with the milk over and over until I got the cherries to look as below.

The captured milk now with an added cherry color, Added yeast, and allowed to proof. I did warm the milk, and cherry juice to about 110°F and then added the yeast, and a couple table spoons of flour. Below is a pix of it well proofed.

No pix here, but the next procedure,,
Into my stand mixer,, as it is turning with my dough hook.
dropped the egg yolks in,
then the sugar,
then the butter,
then the yeast mixture with milk
pinch of salt
finally I added the flour.
Mixed well,
First rise, about 45 minutes until dough doubled in volume.
and when I was satisfied , spread dough onto pan.
I then dropped the cherries to be spaced as even as reasonable.
Then I drowned them with my finger. I just pushed slightly into middle of dough.

Covered /topped with streusel made with brown sugar this time. Now for second rise. About 20 minutes. At this time, I started preheating the oven to 350°F

Baked for about 35 minutes,, on center rack.

After 10 minutes out of oven, I lifted cake out of pan by the parchment paper lining. On cooling rack below

Sliced when somewhat cooled, and firm. The dough has a pinkish tone from the cherry juice portion. Delish

Notes;
The Cherry juice I refer to in my writhing of recipe,, is actually the thick glue like portion of the Cherry pie filling. Not sure what the proper term for it is, but around the home, I refer to it as the MUNG
I did have to add some additional flour, but not much. The Mung did provide additional hydration, that I had to compensate for with additional flour.
That is why I always add my flour last when I make dough. I can fine tune the dough consistency by watching how my dough looks in final stage of kneading.
This cake is a KEEPER RECIPE,,,,,
Another experiment that went well.

 

[Tired old Rooster]

Welcome! What do you bake?

Nothing advanced, mostly my own bread.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Denver rarely gets tornados either, but I saw on the news where one struck south of there today. I remember when one hit there when I was a girl. Terrible storm, the Platte flooded and filled up the underpass just a few blocks from my house. <shudder> You just don't know what the westher is goingvto do!

My husband and I lived in tornado valley for eleven years.

I could walk outside and knew there was a tornado in the area.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Nothing advanced, mostly my own bread.

Welcome to this thread.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Bakers good afternoon one and all!

The baking looks gooooddddd.

Temperature is in the 70s.

Have a great day!

 

[CountryCuratesWife]

I had 4 wisdom teeth removed this week, I may try to bake some bread today...I miss my kitchen!