Any Home Bakers Here?

[pennyJo1960]

I did pull it down going to try tomorrow or next day gave me the bug to do it
there was nothing at all in any of out 8 old antique cookbooks like it I cleaned up the
king Arthur if we want to post it later

 

[Aria]

They look ver good!

How Neat....They really look like REAL FLOWERS....you do have talent.
Aria

 

[HomesteaderWife]

Figured I’d share the how-to sort of and a few more photos before we eat them all up! This was the first time I’ve tried making petal shapes. Baked a box mix of devils food as cupcakes and let them cool. Applied a bit of store-bought vanilla frosting (they were out of buttercream) to the bottom of an Oreo on the bigger ones and stuck in the middle. Figured out the best thing to do was separate about 1/4 of frosting for green and 3/4 for yellow. It worked better to pipe the green as the base then cover back over with yellow and leave some Oreo exposed as middle of the sunflower. The mini ones were made two ways 1.) had a dab of icing in just the middle then piped green and yellow around, afterwards placing finely crushed Oreo cookie (just the outside part) in that middle section of frosting) or 2.) pipe green and yellow around in a circle leaving only a bit of the chocolate cupcake top exposed which in itself is a brown similar to sunflower center. Tastes great! Oreo ended up quite soft.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

Speaking of sweet doughs...does anyone here make kolaches?

My grandma used to make them but she never wrote down any recipes and the ones I've found online don't turn out like hers. Grandma's kolaches were about 4" around and she'd put different types of fruit filling in the centers, like cherry or poppy seed. They looked sort of like these (internet picture):
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Oh, kolachi! Well, that's how we spell it in my house, anyway....
My mother is Slovak, and she has a recipe for kolachi -- however, what we do is we roll out the dough, spread the filling over it, and then roll it back up like cinnamon rolls before popping the whole thing into the oven. We made a batch of it the year before last for the first time in... I don't even know how long -- five years, at least. It was really good. She has a recipe for walnut filling, too, I think, and one for prune filling. I'm very interested in keeping all of those recipes around....

 

[N F C]

King Arthur flour had this
https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/czech-kolaches-recipe

I've seen that one Penny but I haven't tried it. Those look kind of small, the recipe says it makes 30, but I guess you could just make the balls of dough larger. And I've never seen any that had a crumbly topping on them, I'd probably leave that off.

I'll probably never find any like grandma used to bake, sometimes those old remembered treats just can't be recreated.

 

[N F C]

Oh, kolachi! Well, that's how we spell it in my house, anyway....
My mother is Slovak, and she has a recipe for kolachi -- however, what we do is we roll out the dough, spread the filling over it, and then roll it back up like cinnamon rolls before popping the whole thing into the oven. We made a batch of it the year before last for the first time in... I don't even know how long -- five years, at least. It was really good. She has a recipe for walnut filling, too, I think, and one for prune filling. I'm very interested in keeping all of those recipes around....

My grandma was Czech, at least mostly. From the recipes I've looked at, there are different ways of shaping them. Some kolache recipes have savory fillings too but we always had the sweet version.

If you wouldn't mind sharing recipes for the walnut and prune fillings, I'd like to see them.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

I wouldn't mind at all! I'll just have to ask her for them soon....

 

[N F C]

I wouldn't mind at all! I'll just have to ask her for them soon....

Thank you!

When I was a kid I wouldn't have touched a prune filled kolache to save my life, but that was my dad's favorite. It would be fun to give it a try now because taste change.

 

[R2elk]

I've seen that one Penny but I haven't tried it. Those look kind of small, the recipe says it makes 30, but I guess you could just make the balls of dough larger. And I've never seen any that had a crumbly topping on them, I'd probably leave that off.

I'll probably never find any like grandma used to bake, sometimes those old remembered treats just can't be recreated.

Just one more reason that you need to get working on your "Debby Does" cookbook.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Not big on prunes still but crud have jams I can use here maybe @Sapphire Sebright
possibly ask her for the dough recipe I would love to compare