Any Home Bakers Here?

[DigMyChicks]

The other dessert I made for the RHL's was Chocolate Caramel Cake:

You basically start with a chocolate cake so if you have a favorite recipe, use it...otherwise, here's this one:

Cake:
1 3/4 Cups AP flour
3/4 Cups unsweetened cocoa powder
2 Cups sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla extract
Pinch of salt
1 Cup milk
1 Cup brewed coffee, cooled
1/2 Cup vegetable oil

Also....
Caramel sauce (12.25 oz jar)
Sweetened condensed milk (14 oz can)


1. Preheat oven to 350*. Grease & flour a 9x13" baking dish (or use parchment paper).
2. In a large bowl combine dry ingredients, flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt.
3. Add eggs, milk, vegetable oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed for 2-3 minutes, add coffee and mix to combine (batter will look runny). Pour into the baking dish. Bake 35-40 minutes, until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Remove cake from oven and cool.
4. In small bowl, combine caramel sauce and sweetened condensed milk together.
5. Using the handle of a wooden spoon, poke holes all over the cake.
6. Pour caramel mixture over the cake allowing it to seep into the holes.
7. Refrigerate a minimum of 4 hours.
8. Top with whipped cream and a chocolate sauce drizzle

Makes a very moist, rich, chocolatey cake and the caramel really shines through. This went quickly!

That’s called something else here...I crush skor or heath bars and put it on top...fabulous! I use my crazy cake recipe for it.

 

[DigMyChicks]

Just got done making 6 loaves of banana bread. I tried King Arthur Flour for the first time and for the first batch and used the rest of my gold medal flour on the second. I want to see if theres a difference. Second batch has chocolate chips.

 

[N F C]

Nice looking banana bread DMC! Could you tell the difference between the 2 flours? (Not sure I see much difference )

 

[DigMyChicks]

Nice looking banana bread DMC! Could you tell the difference between the 2 flours? (Not sure I see much difference )

Haven’t tried it yet. I like my banana bread to sit so it’s not crusty. Will let you know though

 

[N F C]

The Carmel cake I baked yesterday was a mixed success...the cake part was fine but that frosting, ugh! It was more soft candy-like (and not that good of a candy either. Here are a couple of photos of the finished product:

I'm going to remove that ugh frosting and do something else. Back to the drawing board on this one!

 

[DigMyChicks]

The Carmel cake I baked yesterday was a mixed success...the cake part was fine but that frosting, ugh! It was more soft candy-like (and not that good of a candy either. Here are a couple of photos of the finished product:
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I'm going to remove that ugh frosting and do something else. Back to the drawing board on this one!

Looks like it crystalized or something? I’d still eat it

 

[N F C]

Looks like it crystalized or something? I’d still eat it

It just never came together or set up like I thought it would. Followed all the directions and used a thermometer to reach the temps it called for, but no dice. DH took one bite, scrapped the frosting off and ate the cake plain

 

[ronott1]

The Carmel cake I baked yesterday was a mixed success...the cake part was fine but that frosting, ugh! It was more soft candy-like (and not that good of a candy either. Here are a couple of photos of the finished product:
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I'm going to remove that ugh frosting and do something else. Back to the drawing board on this one!

Check out the two frostings I posted. The glaze is a very soft caramel and it smooth. The caramel butter cream is more like a frosting

 

[DigMyChicks]

I saved this one the other day

 

[DigMyChicks]

Nice looking banana bread DMC! Could you tell the difference between the 2 flours? (Not sure I see much difference )

The larger banana bread which was the king arthur was more rounded and spongier and the gold medal was denser and not rounded which is how it usually is for me. Same recipe but chocolate chips added to smaller loaves. Both tasted like more