What are you Baking the Week of April 20, 2025?

[Mike Nolan]

No baking plans today, just celebrating Easter.

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[chocomouse]

Today I made two small (7") cheesecakes, a maple and a chocolate. I'll freeze the chocolate one for next week.

[BakerAunt]

I did not bake on Easter, but I did put Blood Orange Glaze/Frosting onto the cake I baked yesterday. There will not be any pictures because I had a lot of trouble with the glaze/frosting, even though I have made it several times in the past and piped it on in loverly streams. It was too thick, and I could not get it to pipe out decoratively onto the cake. The plastic bag broke. I scraped out the frosting and added more blood orange juice. Apparently, I did not thin it enough, for I then tried a paper frosting holder from a German company, and it too split. At that point, I had used my allotment of my cuss words for the next few months, which is not great on Easter. I grabbed an offset spatula and unceremoniously slathered the frosting/glaze onto the Kugelhof design, then used a pointed spatula with some water to smooth it out a bit. As I said, there will be no pictures. I am making a note on the recipe to hold back some of the powdered sugar next time.

[Mike Nolan]

I need to make honey wheat bread this week, maybe I'll do that on Monday.

[Joan Simpson]

I made two loaves of banana bread, gave them to my two sisters in law.

[BakerAunt]

I baked Pumpernickel Sandwich Bread on Monday. We will use it this week for turkey sandwiches. I also made dough for my Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers. I will bake those toward the end of the week.

[Mike Nolan]

Making a Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake for a potluck lunch at my wife's office tomorrow.

[Mike Nolan]

I'm making honey wheat bread today

[Joan Simpson]

I made Lemon Oatmeal Sugar Cookies for the poker game tonight from Jolene's Recipe Journal and they are great. Went right by the recipe and got four and a half dozen cookies.
https://www.jolenesrecipejournal.com/2020/08/lemon-oatmeal-sugar-cookies.html

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[Mike Nolan]

I tried a suggestion I read on Reddit (r/pizza) and I buttered one side of the dough after it was rolled out, then I put a parchment round on it, flipped it over onto the peel and loaded it with toppings. It slid off the peel into the oven easily without any flour or corn meal as lubrication.

After 5 minutes, I pulled the parchment out (in a 475 oven it would probably not have burst into flames but might have singed.)

Made for a crisper crust on the bottom, which was the goal.
Here's what the underside looked like:

Limited the toppings to sauce, some diced red pepper, some pepperoni, green olives, mozzarella, cream cheese and a sprinkling of romano cheese.

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[chocomouse]

I just printed out the recipe Joan posted for Lemon Oatmeal Sugar Cookies. They look so good - I'll be making them tomorrow morning. I've been making some similar, just adding lemon and oatmeal to another recipe. Thanks, Joan, for enabling me! Lemon is a favorite flavor of mine, and oatmeal makes sugar cookies healthy, right?

[BakerAunt]

On Friday, I used my last two blood oranges to bake Blood Orange Barley Yogurt Cake in a 6-cup Bundt swirl pan. I will add the glaze tomorrow.

I also experimented with the Lemon Barley Scones recipe in the King Arthur Whole Grain Baking Book, as I also needed to use up two lemons. I wanted to see if I could substitute 1/3 cup of oil for the stick of butter. While that has worked in other scone recipes, it did not work for this one. I ended up with what looks like eight large lemon barley cookies that are reminiscent of the Soft Barley Sugar Cookies in the Whole Grain Baking Book. I will let them rest overnight and sample one with tea tomorrow. I had baked this scone recipe with butter a couple of times in the past, before I had to eliminate most butter from my diet. Both times I noted on the recipe that the dough was so sticky that I made drop scones. If I were to try the recipe again as oil based, I would cut the amount of oil and the buttermilk.

[Joan Simpson]

Absolutely Chocomouse oatmeal is good for you.Everyone loved them tonight.Be sure to chill your dough to roll them better.

Mike your pizza looks good.

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