What are you baking now?

[arabianequine]

Off to make my brownies but adding andes mint chips.

 

[jennh]

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I hope you enjoy them... They are my favorite, DH prefers my Cinnamon Bun Babka but I like the sticky buns.

This is the Babka...

Cinnamon Bun Babka

***Dough***
2 heaping tablespoons white sugar
1/3-cup honey
1/2 stick butter (chopped)
1-teaspoon salt
1-1/4 cups scalded milk
2/3-cup cool water
2 large eggs beaten
5-1/2 cups all-purpose flour (If you can find bread flour you can use that and skip the gluten)
3 heaping tablespoons vital wheat gluten (I get mine at Walmart)
2-1/2 teaspoons or 1 packet of yeast

***Put the first 5 ingredients into the bread machine in the order listed. Stir with a rubber spatula until the butter is melted.
***Add the rest of the ingredients in the order listed and select the dough cycle. When the machine first starts you will need to use the rubber spatula to help mix the flour and the liquid or it won't mix well. Just stir with the rubber spatula until all the flour is moistened.
***While you wait for the dough cycle to finish, make your filling and preheat the oven to 325°. Spray a sheet pan with spray-oil, cover with wax paper or parchment paper and spray again.

***Filling***
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2-cup flour
1-tablespoon cinnamon
1/2-cup butter (I use real butter here-I've never tried margarine)
***Mix dry ingredients together, cut in butter. Place in refrigerator until needed.

***Once the dough has doubled in size, turn it out onto a floured surface. Coat with flour so it doesn't stick to your hands or the counter. Roll the dough into a large rectangle, 12x24 inches. Spread the filling evenly over the dough and roll up jelly roll style so that you end up with a 24-inch long roll. Pinch the edges to seal.
***Starting at one end and working your way down the dough a little at a time, twist the dough as though you were wringing out a dishtowel; the roll will get longer as you twist it. Do this gently as not to tear the dough but well enough that it is well twisted and almost doubled in length.
***Then coil the dough around like a pinwheel creating a super large cinnamon roll, tucking the loose end of the dough under so it doesn't unravel. Brush dough very well with melted butter to prevent a skin from forming and let dough rest for 10 minutes, then bake at 325° for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until the Babka is golden brown.
***Make a glaze out of powdered sugar, water and a little vanilla. Drizzle this over the Babka and let it cool.

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Gee thanks, Betty!

Now I'm gonna have to try that too! Are you trying to make me fat?

Jen

 

[BettyR]

Jen-

A Cinnamon Babka is a very good bribe. If you need a favor from a relative or a neighbor give them a Babka as a "gift" a little while before you ask for the favor and they will almost always respond favorably to your request...especially if said relative or neighbor is male.

One of my daughters uses this trick on her father in law all the time. It's been 4 years now and the poor sap still hasn't caught on. He still hasn't realized that when she brings him a babka that she is about to ask him to build or repair something in her house. Either that or he's keeping his mouth shut so she will keep bringing the babkas. (Her husband is a Marine and he's gone a lot.)

 

[Jen4]

Here what I made baked today & some more hm granola...

Recipe here

 

[BettyR]

Made this today...Yum Yum

Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake
Posted on BY Chickens 11-01-2009 by Big Mike

1 1/2 cups sugar
1 8 oz package cream cheese
1 stick butter
3 eggs

2 apples, peeled and cut into very small pieces
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
2 tablespoon orange juice

2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350.

Butter a 10 inch spring form pan. Line it with parchment paper.
Next peel your apples and combine with sugar, cinnamon and orange juice and let sit.

Cream the sugar, butter and cream cheese until fluffy. Add eggs one by one until you have a nice smooth batter. Add flour, salt and baking powder to your batter, mix at medium speed about 1 minute. Add apples and all juices into batter and mix 30 seconds. Pour batter into parchment lined pan. Combine 1/4 sugar, cinnamon together and sprinkle over batter. Sprinkle chopped walnuts over that and place into 350 oven for 60 to 70 minutes, or until a sharp knife comes out clean. Let rest and cool about 30 minutes. NOW remove the cake from the pan by carefully grasping the parchment paper to lift out the coffee cake... Dust generously with powdered sugar. Cut with serrated knife and serve with scrambled eggs.

 

[QH Girl]

BettyR, that coffeecake looks delish! I can almost resist all these tasty recipes, but ya'll are killing me with these pics!

 

[Kim_NC]

Oh yeah, the pics are always the killer.

 

[BettyR]

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It is sooooo good. Big Mike is a good cook.

 

[jennh]

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Hi, recipe for whoopie pies! Sorry it's taken so long to post

WHOOPIE PIES

1 C shortening 4 C flour
2 C sugar 1 C cocoa
2 eggs 2 tsp salt
1 C sour milk 1 C hot water
2 tsp vanilla 2 tsp baking soda

Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs and beat well. Add sour milk and vanilla. Add flour, cocoa and salt alternately with baking soda and water mixture.

Drop by spoonsfuls on cookie sheet. Bake 8-10 min at 350 deg.


FILLING

2 egg whites , beaten 4 Tbl milk
4 Tbl flour 2 Tbl vanilla
4 C 10x (confectioner's sugar) 1 1/2 c shortening

Beat, beat, beat! You can't overbeat the filling.

ENJOY!!

Jen

 

[vfem]

Just so you know, when ever I come into this thread I gain 4 lbs!!!!