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I finished baking my chocolate donuts. I couldn't find my donut cutter so I tried to form these as if they were bagels, forming a whole with my thumbs and then stretching them out. I tried to let them rise the whole afternoon, but the house was rather cold and they didn't rise much. I finally baked them in the evening for 20 minutes. They were small and misshappened poor things, the oven spring mainly obliverated the center hole. Not very sweet, darkly chocolate and with a fine texture. I was hoping for something more open.

I started with this recipe
http://www.everythingispoetry.com/2013/09/chocolate-baked-donuts.html

I used non fat milk, and 3 tablespoons of butter, 1 cup of whole wheat flour instead of 1 cup of white flour and some other changes. I'll have to try the plain yeast donuts some time before giving up on this.

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I just did another cheese pizza and will be baking chocolate donuts later today. I started the dough for the donuts yesterday, but it was lumpy. This is a yeasted donut recipe I found on the web and was adapting a bit. I had mixed most of the dough together when I realized I had forgotten the sugar. I hastily mixed it in as best I could but the dough turned out very lumpy and the lumps could not be kneaded out. I refrigerated the dough overnight, and then let it warm up and started kneading away and when I finished kneading it the lumps were gone!!. The overnight wait seemed to have softened the hard spots. Now to roll the dough out and hope I can find my donut cutter.

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I didn't know there were so many varieties of Challah, some of them sound very strange like chocolate chip and pumpkin cinnamon, but tasty.

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I did Cheese Pizza, turned out very nicely. I was a little worried because this was the inferior flour but it seems to have worked.

I've tried pumpkin cinnamon rolls they are very nice.

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Those cookies are gorgeous. I could never think of doing something like that.

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I got this!

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BakerAunt,
Good luck on the bread. I don't think 2 tsp of yeast is too much for such a heavy bread, but 1 or 1 1/2 tsps of yeast will probably work too. Just give it the time to rise to the necessary volume.

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Thank you. Thank you. One of my next project is going to try to create my own au chocolat sticks. I think if I made an aluminum foil form with the right length and little dividers I can make it like one large chocolate bar that will break apart to the right size. If this is the recipe I remember it has two bars of chocolate per roll and they are like an S shape with a chocolate bar in each curve of the S.
I have so many recipes that I look at and think that this would be fun later. How do you organize your future recipe pile?

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I missed this.

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Looks very nice. What did you think of the flavor?

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That is nice. There are a couple of historical mills not that far from me. I wonder what they are doing.

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Can one teenager eat 10 pancakes for breakfast? I can see that happening for lunch but at breakfast? I hope you get to taste your own pancakes.

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I just took a batch of English Muffins out of the oven. I separated the dough into two batches during the mixing process and added an egg to one half, and some additional water to the other. The batch with the egg rose higher but its also slightly drier and more fine grained. The other one has a more open and moist texture. I should probably repeat this experiment, I didn't do a very good job making the English muffins. The dough was quite dry and I had to knead in more water to both batches to get it to absorb all the flour. This took a lot of work and kneading.

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I got it right, but I have never made any.

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Thursday is not a good night for me, but any other day will work. I'm using an extra Windows laptop for video conferences. My old favorite Macintosh is too old to work well with any modern software.

Italiancook; Perhaps you should look into getting a computer. A used laptop would be cheap.

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