What are you baking now?

[GPN]

i baked chocolate Chip cookies! for VBS tonight

 

[Kim_NC]

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Holy Smoke those look delicious!

I'm looking for motivation to make a dessert. Don't have cream cheese in the fridge or I'd try the fruit pizza.

 

[vfem]

I am TOO hot to bake... it was literally 100 today. All I enjoyed was sweat running down my face our picking berries all morning. So tonight, I will simply crush some blackberries and blueberries and cherries into a bowl and top with whip cream. Good enough!

 

[ChickenToes]

Lately I've only been baking loaves of sourdough, but I have a hankering for cinnamon rolls...so sourdough cinnamon rolls may be on the agenda for tomorrow!

 

[ozark hen]

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You know when I was a child, on my grandparents farm. We would pick berries in the morning and grandmother would put them in the ice box and then that evening before bed we would have berries with fresh milk and sugar on them.

very fond memories and very yummy.

 

[Nyrial]

Baklava tonight, pumpkin bread and maybe some cookies here in a day or so..

 

[Jen4]

Vfem Wrote:

I am TOO hot to bake... it was literally 100 today. All I enjoyed was sweat running down my face our picking berries all morning. So tonight, I will simply crush some blackberries and blueberries and cherries into a bowl and top with whip cream. Good enough!

Sounds yummy to me... I'll be thinkin of you when I'm out pickin berries this morning, I pick every other day and gosh it feels like I'm out there doing yoga in a sauna!​

 

[peeplessinNC]

Made a good Spiced Pear and Walnut Bread last night, my version of a recipe found on the Smitten Kitchen blog:

3 cups self-rising flour
1 t. cinnamon plus 1/2 t. ginger and 1/2 t. English Mixed Spice or 1 TB cinnamon only
1 cup finely chopped walnuts
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 eggs. beaten
2/3 cup oil
2 cups grated ripe pears, peeled, about 4-5 small
2 t. vanilla


Heat your oven to 350°F (175°C) and lightly grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan or two 9-by-5-inch loaf pans. [I used 6 mini pans]

Combine the flour and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl, and stir with a fork to mix well. If you’re using nuts, scoop out about 1/4 cup of the flour mixture and combine it in a small bowl with the chopped walnuts, stirring and tossing to coat the nuts with the flour.

Peel and core pears, then grate them. You’ll want two grated cups total; set them briefly aside. In a medium bowl, combine the oil, eggs, sugar, grated pear, nuts (if using), and vanilla, and stir to mix everything well. Scrape the pear mixture into the flour mixture and stir just until the flour disappears and the batter is evenly moistened.

Quickly scrape the batter into the prepared pans and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 60 to 70 minutes, or until the bread is handsomely browned and firm on top and a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. [the mini pans needed 25 to 30 minutes bake time]

Cool the bread in the pan on a wire rack or folded kitchen towel for about 10 minutes. Then turn it out onto a plate or a wire rack to cool completely, top side up. Serve it as is, sprinkle it with confectioners sugar or drizzle it with a simple glaze made from whisking 3 tablespoons buttermilk, a dash of vanilla and 2 cups of confectioners’ sugar together.

 

[Dragonfly Ranch]

peeplessinNC Printed the bread recipe off and will have to try when our pears get ripe.

My husband told me last night that we are going to get some good Apricots this year and I can hardly wait. I see a Apricot pie in our future!

Sandee

 

[DuckLady]

Oh my, that Spiced Pear and Walnut Bread looks wonderful!
I have canned pears from last year....will that work?


Thanks for the kind words on my pie and bread. My hubby agreed with you all because there is not much left!