What are You Baking the Week of May 24, 2026?

[BakerAunt]

On Sunday, I baked Whole Wheat/Rye/Semolina buns to use for sandwiches for dinner. I also baked two small (3-cup pans) Blood Orange Barley Yogurt Cakes. I will freeze one and will glaze the other for dessert, starting tomorrow. I still have some blood oranges in the refrigerator to use, so there is likely another chocolate cake in our future.

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[BakerAunt]

For too long, I have been ignoring a partial and a full bag of cranberries in the produce drawer of my refrigerator, so on Monday, I sorted through them and threw away the bad ones. I froze some and used another heaping cup to bake my oil-based Cranberry Scones. I usually mix half King Arthur AP with half of their Irish-style flour, but as I have a lot of whole wheat pastry flour, I decided to use it in a 2:1 ration to the AP flour. I also added ½ tsp. of orange extract to my usual recipe. The dough was sturdy enough that I patted it into an 8-inch circle, then cut it into triangles that I spread out on the baking sheet. I cut the baking time to 21 minutes, which was perfect.

[Mike Nolan]

Last night I made 10 dozen banana mini-muffins, 6 dozen with raisins, 4 dozen with both raisins and pecans. (Not planned that way but I forgot to put the nuts in and by the time I realized it the 3rd batch was already in the oven.)

I dipped some of them in chocolate ganache, they're cooling, we'll try them out in a few minutes.

[BakerAunt]

I made dough for Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers on Wednesday. After it rests in the refrigerator, I will bake them early next week.

[BakerAunt]

Thursday is our dog Annie's "Gotcha Day." Twelve years ago, we drove to a place outside Detroit to meet this fourteen-month-old Australian Cattle Dog in need of a home and bring her back with us. We celebrated this morning with her favorite breakfast of waffles, in this case, the Cornmeal-Pumpernickel recipe, although she likes all waffles.

[Joan Simpson]

I made a pineapple pistachio cake to take to poker tomorrow. Todays been a bad day I had to have my dog put down and it's broken my heart. She was diagnosed with Cushing disease and it's pretty quiet here now. She was my riding girl and I miss her so much...but I'm done with dogs ... no more.

[BakerAunt]

Oh, Joan, I am so sorry for your loss. Hugs.

[kimbob]

Oh no, Joan! How awful. We had to put down one of my mom's dachshunds who had Cushings. He was suddenly sick one day and we took him to the vet. He died and they revived him! Then we had to put him down the same day. It was horrible. I got a dog 6 years ago. I'm with you, no more dogs even though I love him dearly. No more dogs because I'm 71 and I'm afraid it would outlive me and I would be worried who would take care of it.
I know you must be crying. It's devastating because the dog is your family. I'm so sorry.

[kimbob]

Happy gotcha day, Annie!

I baked 21 chocolate cupcakes, gave 12 to the family across the street, 6 to my friend and kept 3. I put sprinkles on half and marachino cherries on the others.

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[Mike Nolan]

We've had to have several cats put down, it is never a pleasant task, even when it is absolutely the right thing to do. We had one who just keeled over and died one day, that wasn't fun, either.

[BakerAunt]

Your cupcakes are lovely, Kimbob.

I used the rest of my supply of blood oranges on Saturday to bake Chocolate Olive Oil Cake. I baked it in 6-cup and a 5-cup Bundt pans. I will freeze the smaller one. Tomorrow, I will glaze the larger one, and we will begin having it for dessert.

In the evening, I mixed up the levain for the Rustic Wholegrain Sourdough Bread that I plan to bake tomorrow.

[Mike Nolan]

Tonight's pizza was Pizza Tondo (Romano) from the King Arthur book.

This dough is 20% semolina and has 10% olive oil in the crust and it is rolled paper thin.

We topped it with sauce, artichoke hearts, pepperoni, tomato slices and whole milk mozzarella, and it was very good, we liked it better than the tavern-style thin crust in that book.

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[kimbob]

Great looking pizza, Mike! I'll have to remember to look up that crust when I get the kaf book.

Haven't delved into Tony Gemignani's pizza book yet. That's my plan for today.

[BakerAunt]

Mike--that pizza picture and your description is almost enough to make me buy the King Arthur Pizza book.

[Mike Nolan]

I will probably try the Detroit and New Haven ones at some point, but we prefer thin crust pizza, both for the taste/texture and the lower carbs (less crust, which is virtually all the carbs.)

Of course we could just limit ourselves to one or two pieces.

I've been making 12 inch pizzas lately, using a tavern cut (16 pieces) rather than wedges.

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