Any Home Bakers Here?

[BullChick]

Hi there, new to the thread!
Baked some banana donuts and muffins tonight! One of my favorite desserts to make! Whenever I make Banana bread anything, it is like a delicacy!

Tell us more about these banana donuts.

 

[CrazyCochin]

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If y’all insist….

(Nut allergy warning) (Preheat your oven to 350 degrees) (This is for a double of the recipe) In an appropriate mixing bowl, I take two bags of ordinary Chiquita Banana bread mix, two eggs from our own hens, 2/3rds cup of water, four way over ripe bananas (due to putting my baking off a few days), but six if you have that many, and if you like the extra banana flavor, then mix in an your choice amount of walnuts!

(Our oven gets really hot) Once you have all your ingredients in the bowl, mix the batter until there is little to no sign of powder. With a regular tablespoon (what you eat with) pour the batter into the donut tray, but don’t let the batter cover the middle piece. Let your soon to be banana donuts bake for 25 minutes, checking them often.

Before your 25 minutes is up, and if the donuts look touchable, take a chopstick if you have one, and gently stick it into the donut. If the chopstick comes out clean, they are either done or almost there. (An alternate way is to gently but firmly press the donut on the top, and if it bounces back, much like a sponge, you are good to go.)

Once you have taken your donuts out of the oven, (using proper caution and preferably oven mits or a good towel in each hand), place the tray on a heat safe surface. while they’re hot, use a butter knife and rub butter on the top of the donuts and then let them continue to cool.

And voilà, you have Banana donuts!

 

[CrazyCochin]

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One time, when I was making regular banana bread with the same recipe, I got playful and put white chocolate chips in one corner of the pan….

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Hi there, new to the thread!
Baked some banana donuts and muffins tonight! One of my favorite desserts to make! Whenever I make Banana bread anything, it is like a delicacy!

hey Cochin, glad you could make it!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Thank you!

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Welcome to the Bakers thread Recipe Please

 

[CrazyCochin]

hey Cochin, glad you could make it!

Hey blue! Thank you!

Welcome to the Bakers thread Recipe Please

Thank you too Penny!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Sorry links to recipe do not work

 

[CrazyCochin]

Sorry links to recipe do not work

I did not put any clickable links if that’s what you mean, I just wrote the recipe down. I underlined the main ingredients to make them more prominent.

 

[ronott1]

Took my sourdough loaf out of the oven just now. To my surprise, I have achieved something I don’t often achieve with bread of any type.

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A perfectly shaped loaf! No splits anywhere!

I have only achieved this a few times before, so this makes me happy!

The bread does look very good!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I activated my sourdough starter by feeding it twice today* and will be starting a baking tomorrow. May or may not finish it, we'll see. I do not have actual bannetons, will be using a couple of retired colanders lined with floured dishcloths. (Christmas is coming though, hehe!)

*I fed it 75 grams of flour and 75 grams of water at each feeding and stirred it with a wooden chopstick. I did not put the starter in its heavy jar on the scale and weigh my additions as I went. Too easy to be inaccurate, and impossible to correct a mistake! Instead I weighed out 75 g of flour into a small, clean bowl and added that to the starter, and did the same with the water. Made it easy to subtract if I got a little heavy-handed as I measured (which I did!). Waited three or four hours between feedings. Did all this at room temp.