I did sugarless pumpkin scones with finely chopped apples. This was baked for friends who are trying to avoid excess sugar.

Today I made a very dark gingerbread which had 1 cup of molasses to 2 cups of flour. I think the ove was toohot as it came out fudgy in the center but taller and drier around the edges. Its very dark and rich.

Yesterday I made my first batch of bread dough for pan de mie in the Zo. The cycle was finished after my mom left and it was the nicest dough I’ve made in a long time. I don’t think I took quite enough care putting it in the pan and on the rise - it overflowed just enough to glue the lid to the pan. Then when I baked it the additional time without the lid, I took its temp and it was 181. I made the mistake of cooking an extra 5 minutes instead of 2 so it got up to about 204 (it was supposed to be 190). It then sagged in the middle. Will says it’s still delicious and he’s glad to have Mom’s homedmade bread again.

I really almost overdid it this past weekend - baked tons of cookies (honey bars, mint chocolate chip, fudge cookies, thin & lacy oatmeal, molasses, white chocolate w/cranberry, snickerdoodles, lemon coconut snowball, peanut butter), orange-cranberry-dried fruit mini bundt cakes, chex puppy chow, and cranberry bliss bark (candy). I also made Bernard Clayton's Chopped Apple Bread - two loaves of that. The liquid leaked underneath the parchment peper and just stuck to the pans horribly. I literally had to soak the pans for 2 days and then gently scrape off the burnt stuff. Almost ruined my 9x5 pans, don't know what to use next time as I'm afraid of what other pans to use. Alao made a pan of KAF Honey Wheat rolls for the Christmas dinner. I think I am done baking sweet stuff for the next few months. Had to freeze some of the leftover cookies to eat for later in the year.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by luvpyrpom.

Wow, you were busy, Luvpyrpom!

I haven't cooked or baked anything in over a week, because we were in Orlando for a Disney family Christmas. Instead, we sampled some of Orlando's great restaurants, including Morimoto's and the Brown Derby in Disney's Hollywood park. My waistline shows the results.

I also caught a cold that is trying to morph into a sinus infection, so I'm on antibiotics and the Chicken Soup diet for the next few days. Good thing we have no plans for New Year's Eve.

I baked a stollen today that I will be taking to my neighbor on New Years eve. I changed up the seasonings a little, I hope it tastes OK. I'm also planning on topping it with a almond flavored glaze instead of powdered sugar. I was looking at stollen pics on another site and someone had a stollen with a glaze and pecans on it. Might try that.

I baked two loaves of my standard sandwich bread, based on a recipe from The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook by Beth Hensperger, the Honey Oatmeal Buttermilk recipe. I subbed in one cup of whole wheat flour in place of a cup of AP, and added 1/2 cup of KAF 6 Grain Mix. It's good, a no-fail recipe.