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August 11, 2024 at 9:48 am #43573August 11, 2024 at 5:27 pm #43576
This Sunday morning, I was searching recipes for a blackberry jam cake on Bing, and "Blackberry Jam Cake," from P. Allen Smith's website popped into view. I decided to see if I could modify the recipe to use avocado oil rather than butter. I also wanted to substitute half of a whole grain flour. When I later googled the question, "Do blackberries and barley go together," I found a scone recipe that uses whole blackberries and barley flour, so I decided the flavors would be complementary. I want to find ways to use my large stock of blackberry jam that has resulted from a couple of years of excellent harvests.
This recipe makes a very large cake. As I am experimenting, and there are just two of us, I chose to make a half recipe. Given the ingredient amounts, I decided on a 10-cup Bundt pan (the "party" pan), and that was a good decision. Oil cakes tend not to rise a lot, but the batter came within an inch of the top. I think that the very largest Bundt cake pan could handle the full recipe.
I replaced ½ cup butter with 1/3 cup avocado oil. I used half barley flour. I substituted English walnuts for the black walnuts that I do not have. I only have light brown sugar, so I used it instead of the dark brown sugar. I deleted half a cup of raisins. I used a cup of the blackberry jam that I recently made--from a jar where there was not enough to can, from a dish with not enough even to put into a jar, and from a jar that did not seal. I did not bother separating the eggs and beating the egg whites and folding them in. I think that it would not make as much difference with an oil cake as it would a butter cake.
The recipe says to bake at 325 F for 1 ½ hours to 2 hours. That seems a rather long interval, but perhaps it depends on the consistency of the jam. I checked the cake after an hour, and, since it is a half recipe and therefore a smaller cake. It registered 210 F, and a Bundt cake is done at 200 F, according to the site I googled. After 15 minutes, it came out of the pan easily. I will let it cool and rest overnight to allow the flavors to develop, and we will begin slicing it tomorrow evening for dessert. It smells wonderful!
August 11, 2024 at 7:04 pm #43580That sounds really good, BakerAunt; I might try that recipe. My husband is picking about 2 quarts of blackberries most every day now, and I'd like to bake some, fresh. We usually freeze them all, and he eats them on his Frosted Flakes every morning all year 'til they're gone. When I get back from Maine next Monday, I'm planning to make a simple blackberry cobbler.
August 12, 2024 at 12:01 pm #43583Here is a link to the original recipe for the Blackberry Jam Cake:
The cake is delicious, but I think that the nutmeg is a little strong. I would cut it back to ½ tsp. or perhaps replace it with some allspice. I was a little surprised that the recipe specified nutmeg, as I do not think of it in connection with blackberries.
August 12, 2024 at 6:24 pm #43585We were out of cookies. I wanted something sweet with my tea, so on Monday afternoon, I made oil-based blueberry scones. The lemon that I had in the refrigerator had gone bad, so I used 1/8 tsp of lime oil instead of lemon zest and out of lemon oil. The flavor is a little strong in the scone that I ate today. I hope that it will be less intense tomorrow when I have one for breakfast.
I also made dough for Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers this afternoon. I will bake those at the end of the week.
August 15, 2024 at 4:41 pm #43601On Thursday, I baked oatcakes. As I live with a snackasaurus, a single recipe of 17 does not last very long, so while the first batch was baking, I made up a second. Although I just could have doubled the recipe in the first place, I have a system for rolling out the dough on the same sheet of parchment on which I bake the cookies. I also thought it would be easier to make sure that all ingredients were combined if I did two single recipes. I had two oatcakes for teatime, with a dab of strawberry jam on the second one.
August 15, 2024 at 5:07 pm #43602It's National Lemon Meringue Pie Day so I made one for poker night and the friends down the road that has the farm stand gave me a cobbler kit to bake and give them feedback on so I'll bake that tomorrow afternoon.My meringue turned out so good happy here😃
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You must be logged in to view attached files.August 15, 2024 at 6:03 pm #43608Beautiful, Joan!
August 15, 2024 at 7:55 pm #43609Your meringues are works of art. Mine look more like something out of Picasso's cubist period.
August 15, 2024 at 8:11 pm #43611Very pretty, Joan
August 16, 2024 at 10:49 pm #43616I baked the blueberry cobbler from the kit, it was very good but too pricey for me at $20.00, I couldn't afford it.Here's the picture.It made a 9x9 pan.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.August 17, 2024 at 6:44 pm #43622I baked five small loaves of wholegrain pumpkin bread on Saturday. I will freeze at least three for dessert emergencies. The recipe is the one posted here at Nebraska Kitchen.
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