What are you Baking the Week of July 16, 2023?

[BakerAunt]

Chocomouse-- I saw somewhere this week that those chocolate cookies are no longer being produced.

[Mike Nolan]

If you have a grocery store that has a good sized ethnic foods section, Goya Chocolate Maria Cookies might work for that recipe. I've seen other Goya products in local stores here, though I haven't specifically looked for these. We have a significant Hispanic population and several stores that cater to them. They're also available online.

I just took a buttermilk blueberry zucchini bread out of the oven, I took it to 205 degrees, about 10 minutes longer than the recipe called for. Smells good, but it will be a few minutes before I can remove it from the pan and then it still has to cool enough to slice.

I'm probably doing a strawberry zucchini bread next, and then probably the one with the chocolate chips in it.

I picked 2 more medium zucchini (12/20 ounces) today so I've got plenty of zucchini to work with.

[BakerAunt]

I bought more zucchini at the farmers' market, so I will be baking zucchini bread soon.

On Saturday, I made Maple Granola.

I also baked three loaves of my Oat Bran Whole Wheat Buttermilk Bread. Hot weather is predicted for the middle and end of the coming week, so I wanted to have two loaves for the freezer.

[Mike Nolan]

Today's blueberry zucchini bread is very good, but rather crumbly. Not sure what would make it less crumbly. (The Internet says less oil or less leavening. It only uses a half-cup of oil but 2 teaspoons of baking powder, maybe next time I'll cut that down to 1 tsp.)

[chocomouse]

Thanks for the cookie suggestion Mike. I found (using the search button) that my grocery store does carry the Goya Maria Cookies, although perhaps not the chocolate version. I'll look for them next time I shop. The chocolate cookies I baked from scratch worked find in the icebox cake, but I was hoping this "cake" would be a quickie that required no baking and little time investment.

[Mike Nolan]

We froze most of the zucchini cake, Diane says it is great right out of the freezer, the chocolate chips are a little crunchy but the cake is not. This recipe is a definite keeper.

[Mike Nolan]

The Strawberry-Blueberry Zucchini bread is probably not a recipe I'll repeat.

I had another piece of it today and while the flavors have mellowed out, making it less assertively cinnamon, as my wife put it, it isn't worth the carbs.

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