On Sunday, I baked a new recipe, Butternut Squash Bundt Cake with Maple Glaze, from the blog Port and Fin. Here is a link to the recipe:

I was forced to find a new butternut cake recipe because the one I baked a few years ag and loved had a copious amount of butter and cream cheese. This recipe, which uses oil and sour cream--which I replaced with nonfat Greek yogurt--seems like a good possible replacement. I followed a commentator's suggestion for more robust spices. Whereas the original called for 1 tsp. cinnamon and ¼ tsp. nutmeg, the suggestion added ½ tsp. ginger, ¼ tsp. cloves and ¼ tsp. allspice. In my experience, butternut squash in baked goods usually benefits from more spices. I also used half white whole wheat flour and half King Arthur AP. I added 2 Tbs. Bob's Red Mill milk powder and 2 Tbs. flax meal. As noted, I replaced the sour cream with nonfat Greek yogurt. I might have used a low-fat one, but it is not easy to find where I live. I cut the salt by 50%. The recipe did not specify what size Bundt pan, but my selection of a 10-cup pan was perfect. I checked it at 50 minutes and let it bake another five. I removed it from the pan after 10 minutes.

I will let the cake rest overnight, then add the maple glaze tomorrow. I may look at some of my maple glaze recipes. The recipe's maple glaze uses only powdered sugar and maple syrup, and I think that it will need a bit of milk in order to set properly.

Today I made KABC's Chewy Semolina Rye recipe for the first time. The only change I made was to use Rye Bread Improver instead of vital wheat gluten. It looks funny, not a smooth top, and doesn't have a strong rye odor. We'll cut into it tomorrow to find out about the crumb and flavor.

The Chewy Semolina Rye bread is excellent - nice crumb and flavor. My husband likes the size of a slice, as it did not rise as high as most of my breads do.

I'm making my burger/sandwich buns today. They are formed and rising, the oven is waiting for them.

Mike, I sure wish you'd send some of those peanut butter cookies to me. My husband used our peanut butter outside in some wild scheme to ward off gophers who destroyed the yard. Yes, the peanut butter is buried, but I think it'll attract racoons which are destructive to property. So I didn't have peanut butter until a Sam's run today. I also really like that cookie recipe, but in my small kitchen, making cookies is a stressful production, so I don't make them as often as I'd like.