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Home › Forums › Baking — Breads and Rolls › What are you Baking the Week of December 21, 2025?
Joan Simpson.No baking here today, but cookies are on the baking horizon this week.
No baking today but I'm be on it this week!
I made chocolate and white chocolate chip cookie bars today. I also made 2 loaves of rye bread with caraway seeds anticipating ham sandwiches from the Christmas ham later in the weekend.
Yum I love Rye with caraway Chocomouse. Today I baked 2 lemon Supreme Pound cakes with a drizzle icing, 1 sour cream pound cake in 2 loaf pans, 1 batch of Georgia Cornbread Cake which is like pecan pie brownies, 1 coconut cake with cream of coconut and cool whip icing with coconut, and 2 batches of Cuban lunch box candy needless to say my butt is tired and I still have baking to do.This is for all my friends and family.
On Monday evening, I baked Spiced Rye Ginger Cookies. The dough was a bit dry, either because the weather here is very dry or because I put in 2 Tbs. milk powder. In the future, I will omit the milk powder. I had to wet the balls of dough slightly in order to get the sugar to stick to them.
Note: I will not be adding any powdered milk to this recipe in the future. It threw off the hydration, and the cookies are harder, not the usual soft ones. I also slightly overbaked them, not realizing just how much the moisture had decreased. They are edible, by me, but I will not be gifting any of these.
I baked brownies, another batch of candy and two batches of oatmeal cookies which I baked in 9 X 12 pans and cut in small bite size pieces so much easier and quick.
I baked another Angel food cake with dextrose tonight, we'll see how it came out in the morning.
On Tuesday, I baked my oil-based sugar cookies. This time, I used whole wheat pastry flour in place of the white whole wheat flour and King Arthur AP in place of the Pillsbury or Gold Medal AP. I flattened the balls with a juice glass, after spraying the bottom with non-stick spray. (I had to repeat every six cookies.) I put mixed red, green, and white sprinkles in the center of each one, then used my finger to spread it over the surface. I will wait until tomorrow to taste one, as the nutmeg and vanilla need an overnight in oil baking to develop the flavor.
Follow-Up Note: the cookies came out very well. They are not quite as soft as before, but they are also not oily. I think pastry flour absorbs oil more effectively. I will continue using half whole wheat pastry flour, but I will use Pillsbury or Gold Medal flour rather than King Arthur AP next time in order to product a lighter cookie.
Well the angel food cake seemed a bit underdone on the bottom, I was playing with the baking temperature/time because of the dextrose and I think I went a bit too low.
But it'll still work in a trifle. We cut the bottom off as it wasn't very spongy, but still edible.
I baked Pfeffernusse on Wednesday (Christmas Eve) because for me it is not Christmas without Pfeffernusse.
I baked a orange coffee cake today for poker ♣️ ♥️♦️♠️ tonight
I made bagels today, I'll probably make them several times over the next few days as my granddaughter can't eat the bagels they serve at RPI due to food sensitivity issues.
Bagels are on my baking list for 2026, Mike.
I was pleased with how my Pfeffernusse turned out this year. I was able to order the candied citron from Sal and Frank back in November. Thanks to Italian Cook for recommending the company to me. This is the second time I've ordered from them.
This year, I did not use the Boynton Anise extract that I used last year. It was just not the right flavor. I had an older small bottle of it as well, and it did not have any Anise smell to it. I dumped both of them. However, I had some Loran Anise oil that smelled fine. I googled and found that I should use a quarter of the measurement for anise extract, so I used 1/8 tsp., and that was just right. Scott says he does not care for anise, but I note that he eats the Pfeffernusse, maybe because of the powdered sugar.
Today's bagels:
4 with cheese
1 with everything
2 with poppy seeds
1 with ground peppers
1 with lemon pepper
