What are you Baking the Week of August 31, 2025?

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  • #47202
    Mike Nolan
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      I might have to make some cinnamon rolls this week, saw a video that looked real good and came up with most of a recipe for it. (The dough is not the same, but the filling and shmear seem pretty close.)

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      #47204
      BakerAunt
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        Those look dangerous, Mike! My favorite kind!

        I posted some weeks back about the recipe for Rory's Scones from King Arthur's last incarnation of The Baking Sheet. I baked these again today for Sunday breakfast. This time I used half whole wheat pastry flour instead of half whole wheat flour, and it makes for a lighter butter-less scone. I also added a tablespoon of canola oil, which I whisked into the buttermilk. It was easy to shape the dough on a well-floured piece of parchment, that I could then use for baking. I cut the 9 x 6-inch rectangle into 24 pieces and baked them for 20 minutes, turning halfway through. I like these tweaks and will continue to use them. We had them at breakfast with homemade peach and blackberry jams and apple butter. Leftovers will provide breakfast for tomorrow.

        #47207
        BakerAunt
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          With two more people here, the rest of the lemon oatmeal cookies vanished quickly, so on Sunday afternoon, I baked Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies.

          #47208
          skeptic7
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            My pizza is full of errors. It started with the dough. I had mixed up a sponge, saw that it had a few bubbles and added the rest of the ingredients -- salt, egg, oil. Then I kneaded in more flour until the consistency was reasonable Then I left it to rise. Only it didn't rise. It just sat there. After too long, I gave up and dissolved another teaspoon of yeast in a little water and mixed it in. After a couple of hours the dough had risen nicely and had large visible bubbles. So I kneaded it, adding more flour to compensate for the extra water. Then I let it rise a little and flattened it out and put into a pizza pan.
            The next day I prepared to make fresh tomato and cheese pizza. Only the tomatoes weren't in the refrigerator where I had left them. They had been in left in a plastic bag on the counter top and were now moldy. So I opened a little can of tomato paste as dotted the dough with about half. Then I reached out for the cheese. The mozzarella and provolone were in the refrigerator where it should be but I couldn't find the cheese plane. So I sliced up the mozzarrela with a knife and put it on the pizza together with the provalone.
            The pizza baked up nicely to make up for all that trouble.

            #47229
            Mike Nolan
            Keymaster

              That's part of what is so fascinating about baking, you can do everything right and it fails, you can do everything wrong and it comes out great.

              #47230
              Joan Simpson
              Participant

                I liked the video and was surprised to hear that malt powder was in the icing and eggs in the smear.

                #47241
                Joan Simpson
                Participant

                  Today I baked two more loaves of banana bread, gave to my sister in love.

                  #47244
                  BakerAunt
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                    I began Tuesday's baking with two dozen zucchini muffins, using my adaptation of the Shipyard Galley recipe. I used the rest of a yellow zucchini (Golden Arrow). I left out the walnuts, as they are not suitable for a two-and-a-half-year-old. Maybe that is why I got only 23 instead of 24 muffins. In the afternoon, I baked Blueberry Cobbler for tonight's dessert.

                    I realized after we all had sandwiches at lunch on Tuesday that I was going to run out of bread tomorrow, and I was unsure that there would be enough for everyone on Wednesday, so after dinner I baked Whole Wheat Oat Bran Bread, a process that kept me up until well after midnight. However, with three loaves, I feel we are in good shape for the rest of the week, I will probably freeze just one for now.

                    #47245
                    Mike Nolan
                    Keymaster

                      I'm going to try making a small batch of those cinnamon rolls this week, I found a recipe that comes close but apparently I mis-printed it and two ingredients in the shmear were missing plus one in the icing (nutmeg), and now I can't find that link online. Plus it was using a tangzhong dough rather than a brioche, so I'm doing a mash-up of several recipes and will wing parts of it. If it works, I'll post the recipe later on.

                      #47246
                      rottiedogs
                      Participant

                        If you post the name of the recipe I will try to find it! They sound really good. It's worth poking around looking.

                        #47247
                        Mike Nolan
                        Keymaster

                          What I did was search for terms like Hani's bakery NYC cinnamon roll. I came up with a recipe, possibly AI generated, that used a tangzhong dough (rather than a brioche dough) with a lot more ingredients in it than the ones shown in the Hani's video on Youtube. Similarly, the schmear recipe had cream in it, and the cream cheese glaze was missing the nutmeg shown in the video.

                          When I printed it, some stuff apparently was in the top and borrom margins (printing tools for net content have gotten worse over the last few years, IMHO, probably because the net sites put stuff in so you need to use their print option, which usually gets you several pages of ads and other useless stuff), so the printed copy was missing the butter and flour ingredients and amounts from the schmear.

                          I'm going to make the glaze and dough later today, and maybe the schmear as well, hopefully I can make the rolls tomorrow.

                          #47252
                          Mike Nolan
                          Keymaster

                            I went with the brioche dough recipe in The Bread Baker's Apprentice for my cinnamon rolls, I used the 'middle class brioche' recipe with a little extra flour and butter. It's resting in the fridge and I'll shape it later this morning after I make the schmear and bake it later this afternoon.

                            I also made the icing on top so it's ready to go, too.

                            #47254
                            BakerAunt
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                              I baked two 8-inch chocolate cake layers on Wednesday in anticipation of my bonus daughter's birthday tomorrow.

                              #47257
                              Mike Nolan
                              Keymaster

                                It took me several edits, but I got all 6 photos into this post.

                                Here's my first try at a Hani's Bakery Malted Cinnamon Roll copycat recipe

                                Here's the dough rolled out with the cinnamon schmear on top
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                                Here's the dough rolled up and ready to go in the freezer
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                                Here's one that has been cut after removing the dough from the freezer. (That technique works very well!)
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                                Here are the rolls ready to rise
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                                Here's one baked roll, ready for icing
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                                Here's two rolls with some icing on them
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                                The dough is great, the schmear is a bit too heavy and quite a bit of it sunk to the bottom of the baking cup. The icing is a bit of a disappointment, doesn't taste like a cream cheese icing.

                                Would I make it again? Possibly, but with some changes, especially to the icing. I really liked the idea of freezing the dough before slicing it, that technique I will almost certainly use again. I might use a combination of light brown sugar and granulated sugar in the schmear instead of mostly dark brown sugar.

                                I'm running tests to see how well they freeze, since a dozen cinnamon rolls is like a week's worth or more for us.

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                                #47265
                                Joan Simpson
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                                  Good job Mike, they look great to me.Yours looked as good as the video nice tight roll.

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