What are you baking the week of May 6, 2018

[Joan Simpson]

That coffee cake looks good BakerAunt!

[BakerAunt]

Joan--the only issue is that the topping tends to get overly browned during the long baking time. I'm wondering about waiting 20-30 minutes and then putting it on top. Or maybe I should put half the topping on, then half-way through add the other half.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by BakerAunt.

[BakerAunt]

On a very windy Friday, I'm baking a double recipe of Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers from the dough that I made on Monday.

Baking my own crackers has spoiled me. We were at friends' house for dinner, and she served Wheat Thins with guacamole before dinner. I was amazed at how sweet the Wheat Thins tasted to me--and not in a good way. I used to like eating Wheat Thins, but now I would not buy them.

I would like some additional cracker recipes. I have a rye one that I like. The Swedish Christmas Crispbread is good, but it is higher in fat than I would like. I've not been able to bake an oat cracker that isn't rubbery.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by BakerAunt.

[wonky]

BakerAunt...I love your sub's for the coffee cake. Looked at the recipe, and anything
with sour cream, or of course cream cheese catches's my eye. I have taken to adding flax meal to so many things I make, that it is almost automatic. I add it to bars, cakes, bread of course, oatmeal, meat loaf and so on. It is considered a a super food, and is so easy to incorporate into other foods. I don't make any other changes to the recipe when adding it, like increasing the liquids etc. I also love anything "almond", so this is one I will have to try.

Tomorrow, will make the WW bread for the day care, and I am not sure what else. I never make just one batch of bread. I always think if I'm making a mess in my kitchen, I might as well make several different kinds, and make even a bigger mess.

Kudos to you for making a bread that turned out so well using spelt flour. As was discussed on the BC, I did not have good luck with it.

[BakerAunt]

One additional note on that cherry cake: the topping softens up nicely the next day. So, it does work to have it on for the entire hour of baking. Just wait a day to serve the cake. It has stayed nicely moist.

I should also mention that I bake it in a 10x10 inch ceramic dish that came from KAF.

Wonky--I didn't realize that you are also a member of the Order of the Flax Meal!

[RiversideLen]

I made sandwich buns today. Unfortunately I dropped one of them when I was removing it from the pan 🙁

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