The Great PCF Baking Thread (1 Viewer)

[JMC9389]

Does anyone else here bake as a hobby? When push comes to shove, I enjoy baking more than cooking, I think.

I made bread for the first time in almost a year last night, came out nice! Flour, water, salt, and yeast only with 78% hydration proofed overnight and baked in a Dutch oven.

 

[pluto]

That bread looks incredible!
I bake more than my wife but have not tried bread yet, mostly cookies, brownies, cornbread, muffins, etc. from scratch.
I've learned that under baking cookies by a minute or 2 is the way to go to get a nice dense cookie with the right amount of chew and crunch. Overbaking by even a minute usually makes them too crunchy and dry for my liking. I'm getting close to (my) perfect oatmeal chocolate chip cookie.

 

[Tienou59]

miam

 

[BSteck]

Does anyone else here bake as a hobby? When push comes to shove, I enjoy baking more than cooking, I think.

I made bread for the first time in almost a year last night, came out nice! Flour, water, salt, and yeast only with 78% hydration proofed overnight and baked in a Dutch oven.

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Stellar!!! What type of flour did you use?

 

[Geremie]

That looks amazing!

 

[Sambukan]

Does anyone else here bake as a hobby? When push comes to shove, I enjoy baking more than cooking, I think.

I made bread for the first time in almost a year last night, came out nice! Flour, water, salt, and yeast only with 78% hydration proofed overnight and baked in a Dutch oven.

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Wow nice crust and airy inside. I just started baking bread, but glutenfree (celiac). And still learning about the importance of steam in the oven. Is the dutch oven to hold the steam inside? I just put a bowl of water for half of the baking time on the bottom of the oven and some ice cubes in the pan. One of my first try at glutenfree bread( its quite complicated imo, psyllium husk, buckwheat flour, potato starch, brown rice flour, active dry yeast, apple cidar vinegar)

 

[DrStrange]

My wife cooks yummy stuff for Saturday Night Poker and a few other games. Here are a couple of samples

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• DrStrange
• Jul 27, 2019

Dinner for Saturday night poker

Coffee Cake

• DrStrange
• May 20, 2016

 

[allforcharity]

None of this baking has edge spots.

 

[Mrs Poker Zombie]

PZ cooks while I bake. Translate that to PZ know how to make food, really good food, by feel, taste, and intuition. Meanwhile, I make a good recipe. Lol

 

[jpietrella]

Wow, chipping and baking. Never in a million years would I ever have thought the two should meet - but here we are.

Here's the cake I did for my brother's birthday over the summer.

 

[CantSpellPoker]

I enjoy baking as well as cooking. If you made me choose, I’d pick cooking, but I bake plenty. Only thing I have photos of right now are some apple turnovers I did on Christmas morning. Nothing fancy, but they were delicious.

 

[Jhoov2412]

I really thought this was going to be a thread on baking chips to flatten them

 

[Señor Tony]

I enjoy all things cooking and baking. My partner and I don't enjoy sweet things (unless balanced with super spicy in a savoury dish) so my baking tends to the "healthy" replacement side. Pretty much any commerical or standard baked good to us tastes so sweet it is almost sickening.

By healthier I mean almond, oat or garbanzo flour instead of wheat flour.
Flaxseed seed or chia seed instead of chicken eggs.
No sugar added applesauce or yoghurt instead of butter/oil.
Sneaky shredded vegies (carrot, zucchini, beets etc) and/or legumes (black beans) for moisture.

I often take treats into work and although people can definitely tell them aren't your standard super sugary baked goods, the plates are always empty at the end of the day and people are constantly emailing me for the recipes.

 

[Silver_Fiend]

Great looking bread! I love baking, but sadly I cant eat those foods any more.

 

[Sprouty]

I'm not a baker but fortunately, these two are!

 

[surfik]

I do Sourdough bread and pastry...

 

[Schmendr1ck]

Mrs. S and I both bake, but she blows me away. I do well with breads, her forte is everything sweet.

Today she baked a chocolate mascarpone Bundt cake for a friend's birthday, and decided to bake a couple of minis for us to keep.

 

[surfik]

Sourdough

 

[AK Chip]

Bonnie is the baker around here, she knows what she’s doing!!
Pane Bianco

 

[JMC9389]

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies from scratch made this afternoon

 

[Irish]

Any of you bakers have a good sourdough recipe? Next time I make clam chowder I want to make sourdough bread bowls.

 

[Klobberer]

Every Thanksgiving...

Cranberry Walnut Celebration Bread

 

[Klobberer]

I have two cookie recipes that would win awards!

 

[Klobberer]

Don't get me started about pizza dough!

 

[Mongoose]

Bonnie is the baker around here, she knows what she’s doing!!
Pane Bianco
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That looks incredible!

 

[Klobberer]

You want a brownie recipe that will get your dick hard? I got it!

 

[Bluegrass Poker]

I’m jealous. I love to cook and do most of the cooking in our house. But I don’t bake. Wish I could learn. My wife is a fabulous baker so at least one of us can do it.

I need to take the time and effort to at least learn the basics.

 

[PKF655]

My wife cooks yummy stuff for Saturday Night Poker and a few other games. Here are a couple of samples

three layer chocolate cake.jpg

• DrStrange
• Jul 27, 2019

Dinner for Saturday night poker

Coffee Cake

• DrStrange
• May 20, 2016

Might be a little late to this thread but would like the recipe that coffee cake looks amazing.

 

[jpietrella]

Made this cake for my in-law's 50th anniversary. My mother in-law loves lemon. It's lemon cake with lemon curd filling, lemon/vanilla buttercream topped with candied lemons. Because....lemons.

 

[TheDuke]

Made this cake for my in-law's 50th anniversary. My mother in-law loves lemon. It's lemon cake with lemon curd filling, lemon/vanilla buttercream topped with candied lemons. Because....lemons.

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That looks amazing!