Photo of your home baking

[singlecoil]

Mrs SC had some pastry left over from making mince pies this morning. She also had quite a lot of (whole) cranberries. She decided to invent a recipe on the spot and here's the result. Despite a fair bit of sugar they are still quite sharp but that's ok, neither of us like stuff that's very sweet.

Crumble-topped cranberry pies.

[FredAstaire]

I'm gonna have a crack at the cheese scones from the OP. Never got round to it before as the thermostat on our oven went and it took us over a year to get round to doing something about it. Oh, and I've been on phat fighters.

But Christmas Eve is normally port and cheese for us, so some cheese scones could be a great addition.

[singlecoil]

I have high hopes of this (not cool enough to cut yet) , marmalade traybake cooked to my own recipe, no added sugar but lots of marmalade and plenty of sultanas.

[singlecoil]

Well, I would have to say that it turned out very nice, if very slightly overdone (30 mins at 180 deg in a fan oven). In the never-ending search for absolute perfection I will probably reduce the margarine content next time although it's fine as it is.

Money shot-

Marmalade traybake by Elliott and Nolan, on Flickr

[Mr Roper]

That looks right up my street....with a bit of butter.

[singlecoil]

Summer fruits tart by Elliott and Nolan, on Flickr

[ChrisnChris]

That looks yum I could eat that right now.

Nice Elm.

[singlecoil]

ChrisnChris said:

That looks yum I could eat that right now.

We will think of you when have another slice at 4.30. It's quite sharp, my wife didn't use much sugar but that's how we like it. It really needs something with it, such as cream or vanilla ice cream.

ChrisnChris said:

Nice Elm.

Well recognised. I had to Photoshop out the worst bits. Too warpy to use as an actual chopping board but it does show up nicely in a photo.

[singlecoil]

Chocolate and marmalade cake, adapted from a Nigella Lawson recipe to be less sweet.

Chocolate and marmalade cake by Elliott and Nolan, on Flickr

Edited by singlecoil on Sunday 28th January 18:33

[Gandahar]

[Johnniem]

21TonyK said:

Not any more (thank god!)

Not made a fougasse since the day I sold up

Fougasse! omnomnom. I never come home from France without a few of those babies! Barely see them outside the Cote restaurant chain (which dont serve my idea of what Fougasse should be.

I have a hankerin' for some Fougasse now and I've only just had lunch! Damn!

[Greenie]

After many, many tries finally produced a decent sourdough loaf.

[singlecoil]

Greenie said:

After many, many tries finally produced a decent sourdough loaf.

Not a fan of sourdough myself but if I was, I expect I would want to eat that.

[T-bagger]

Birthday cake I made for the boy last year.

[uncinqsix]

^ that is just stupendous!

[T-bagger]

uncinqsix said:

^ that is just stupendous!

Tasted pretty good too; standard vanilla sponge with raspberry jam and butter icing.
Not all that hard to do the Dino, just time consuming.

[Gandahar]

Still looks fantastic though, I bet you enjoyed the final result more than the recipient, I would have ! Top work

Looking back at my old baking exploits, a loaf I made for the Mexican F1 GP and also a loaf that looks strangely like an American President. I think it is bigly ...





End result looks like he sucked up too much water from reactor 2 of the Fukashima nuclear cooling pond == >




Please be upstanding ...... the Donald loaf.....

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Edited by Gandahar on Saturday 26th January 11:25

[singlecoil]

anonymous said:

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Thanks.

See what you think of these. Tried out our Lakeland mini-loaf baking tray for the first time this morning with our marmalade traybake recipe

Marmalade and sultana cakes by Elliott and Nolan, on Flickr

[singlecoil]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

I retired from kitchen making a couple of years ago would take it up again part-time if I could get a suitable small workshop somewhere local.

My wife and I work as a team with both baking and our other hobby, still life photography. That took us about 20 minutes to set up and shoot, but we've had a lot of practice and we've got all the stuff we need close at hand. That was lit with a single flash unit in a soft box behind and to the left, a piece of black board to reduce the light level behind the subject and two white reflectors to throw a bit of light on the front of the cakes.

We're getting into video rather than still photography now so back to learning and practising for a few months before we can start to publish stuff.

[Little Pete]

My first attempt at baking.
Apple pie for the wife’s birthday.