What are you Baking the Week of July 27, 2025?

[Mike Nolan]

We've got a heat wave coming so I won't be baking much for a while.

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[RiversideLen]

I made brownies from a box mix, in my toaster oven. As I usually do, I added a half cup of oats to it and upped the milk from 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup. It came out good and since it has oats in it, I'm calling it a health food!

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[chocomouse]

Adding oats to brownies is a great idea, Len. I'm always looking for ways to up the health content of baked goods. Lately, I've been adding shredded zucchini, but will try oats next time.

[Joan Simpson]

Len your oat brownie looks and sounds good. Today I made sugar cookies with self rising flour recipe from King Arthur supposed to get 4 dozen I got 30 .They're Okay.

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[BakerAunt]

A thunderstorm with a cool front arrived on Wednesday evening. That allowed me to head back to the kitchen to bake on Thursday, which is good, as we were out of cookies. I baked "Soft Ginger and Molasses Cookies" (no butter), which is a recipe that I adapted from one with a cup of butter on the King Arthur site. I use ½ cup avocado oil plus 2 Tbs. water in its place. I replace the AP flour with white whole wheat flour and add 4 Tbs. milk powder. The recipe uses equal parts ginger syrup and molasses. (I hope King Arthur does not stop selling the ginger syrup, although with my luck, they will.) The recipe made 31 cookies, so that may get us through the week.

I also baked a new recipe, "Maple Walnut and Oat Rolls, from The Baking Sheet XXIV, no. 1 (Winter 2013), p. 7. [Note: If you have the back issues of The Baking Sheet, it incorrectly says XXX for the Volume,] I have taken to paging through my notebooks of The Baking Sheet and pulling out recipes to try. I make a list so that I can find them again. As always, I made some changes to the recipe. I increased the whole wheat flour by ¼ cup and decreased the King Arthur AP by ¼ cup so that it is exactly half whole wheat. I added 2 Tbs. special dry milk and 2 Tbs. flax meal and reduced the salt from 1 ½ tsp. to 1 tsp. I replaced 1 cup of the water with buttermilk and omitted the maple extract. I added 2 Tbs. avocado oil because I think some oil keeps bread softer for longer. The dough, which I mixed and kneaded in the bread machine, was a little dry, so I added 1 Tbs. of water. Next time I will increase the ¼ cup of water to 1/3 cup, as the dough was a tad dry when I was shaping it. I made it as twelve rounded rolls. The rolls are delicious, although they do not have a noticeable maple taste.

[RiversideLen]

Joan, your sugar cookies look great, I can almost taste them.

[Joan Simpson]

Thanks Len the cookies were good but today's are better. I made Lemon Oatmeal Sugar Cookies for the Poker game tonight ♥️♦️♣️♠️, I got 5 dozen and they are good. I will post recipe.

https://www.jolenesrecipejournal.com/2020/08/lemon-oatmeal-sugar-cookies.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawL3Y1lleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFkSURUWk1VM3I4M1RoQnBrAR4oJj6u1yQVwcPWD8YGlfVfygStu677Es5ZmkGhNReZF3CDDndlIPiChduI8g_aem_Fq6kXMNcdXhG_BmRLnnhsQ

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[BakerAunt]

I always look forward to seeing what you bake for the poker game, Joan. Those cookies look so good. I followed your recipe link, and now I am wondering if I can engineer an oil-based version. I will put it on my list of future experiments.

[Joan Simpson]

BakerAunt I thought about replacing oil with the butter I may give it a try. I made a coconut pie and the cornbread cake which is like eating pecan pie in a brownie form.These will go to my friends tonight.

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[BakerAunt]

Replacing butter with oil is tricky, Joan. In cakes or breads, I use 1/3 cup oil per 1/3 cup butter, but that does not work as well in cookies. For the Soft Ginger and Molasses Cookies I just baked, I used 1/2 cup avocado oil plus 2 Tbs. water in place of the 1 cup of butter. That would probably be my starting point.

Your coconut pie and cornmeal cake look delicious!

[BakerAunt]

On Saturday, I baked Banana Oat Muffins for breakfast to use up four small overripe bananas. I baked them as six large muffins and froze two. In the afternoon, I made dough for Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers, which I will bake next week. I did not realize until this morning that Scott was going to run out of crackers after today, or I would have made the dough earlier in the week.

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