Baking Mad Community

Muffin Recipes

2012-02-04T22:06:31Z

Hi I'm looking for a good chocolate chip muffin recipe that doesn't make the muffins have that scone texture. so i would like to know if anyone knows of any.

Wholemeal Bread Recipe

2012-02-04T19:40:37Z

Just polished off the loaf made on Friday evening in my food club. It was the best batch so far, using the Allinson's flour, but this time with real yeast. I have 22 children in my club, so we have to bake in batches. As we only have an hour, we set the yeast to work away and then got into kneading our dough mixture. The children then take their dough home, knock it back and set it to prove, before using their own ovens.
The kids are all 8-9 with one 5 year-old whose Mum comes to help. Great fun and we are moving onto scones next week. Any ideas on a good recipe to use with the children? This time we are hoping to mix and bake at the same sitting..

Easiest birthday cake AND a cake decorating giveaway to enter

2012-02-03T19:51:13Z

Please see below a link to my blog where I tried a lovely chocolate cake from the Baking Mad site; it was the easiest thing to make, everyone loved it and it was really light and delicious. Something you could easily make for a birthday.

Plus you can win Silver Spoon goodies to decorate your own version of a cake like this too.

http://notjustanyoldbaking.blogspot.com … g-mad.html

Flour???

2012-02-03T17:03:54Z

Hi i make quite a lot of cakes(cupcakes and large round cakes) now in most of the resipies i use, it says that you should use plain flour and then add baking powder however is this just like self rising flour ,if so whats the diffrence in useing plain flour and bakeing powder and self raising ??

Thank you

Bake-o-light-girl

xxxx

Seed and Grain Bread Flour

2012-02-01T17:30:50Z

I've had 2 attempts now to make a loaf in my breadmaker using the Seed & Grain white bread flour and both have turned out more like something that would prop the door open than a tasty loaf. I'm using the basic white bread programme as recommended and standard white loaves turn out just fine - what am I doing wrong?

Get making your Jam now!

2012-02-01T12:06:45Z

The WI are holding their Jam Festival on 20th and 21st of November. Now is the best time to get Jam Making so that is has time to set and be at its best for when entries open on 1st October. If you need any help or advice, we are here to help!

Gluten Free Recipes

2012-02-01T11:40:22Z

Hi All

I'm new here, so forgive me if I've missed it !

I'm looking for gluten free recipes on here, but can't find a way to search for them on the search tool.

My Mum was diagnosed a while ago with Coeliacs Disease, and really misses baking ! She has tried making her own recipes with gluten free ingredients, but they never seem to come out right.

Can anyone point me in the direction of some good grub ?

Thanks

Gill

Mum's Who Bake

2012-02-01T11:38:18Z

Chat with other mums about baking with kids

Oil & water in a bread mix! When to add them?

2012-02-01T11:36:42Z

Hello!

I'm a 58 year old male. I like cooking (meat) but have never baked in my life.

I found the 'Baking Mad' recipe for 'Wholesome White Loaf'.

But I'm confused by the (lack) of instruction!

The first two instructions are -

1. Put the flour, sugar, salt and yeast into a bowl.
2. Mix to a soft dough with the oil and water.

But oil and water don't mix! How do I add oil & water? Which do I put in first?

Tim

Autolyse System Variation for Sourdough

2012-01-31T15:44:45Z

I'm developing a long fermenting period with no yeast or kneeding, just flour salt water & starter. 18 hour, 24 hour 48 hour ferment. Two reasons, one to stay in bed longer in the morning, two to freeze the product at some stage during the process so that the end user can finish off in the commercial kitchen. Still deciding at what stage to freeze the product. Any suggestions? Also, chefs reading this and requiring samples, please reply and will mail you some prototypes of wheat, spelt & rye 100% and 50% sourdoughs. Cheers!

Wholemeal products

2012-01-30T18:13:47Z

My daughter cannot tolerate food made with white flour, are there any good
wholemeal cake/ savoury recipes around.

Dried Active Yeast

2012-01-30T18:08:50Z

Hi, it says that this yeast is not suitable for breadmakers. However, i usually knead my bread in my food processor. Would dried active yeast be suitable for this? Thanks for your help

bread machines

2012-01-30T11:40:00Z

i have a breville bread machine is it better to have digital scales,i thought the bread would toast better it can be quite crunchy.the hand book says to put the yeast in last,but could i put it in first

baking in a fan oven

2012-01-29T19:45:53Z

does anyone know how much lower the temp should be when using a fan oven to bake when the recipe doesnt give a fan oven temp?
im using a fan oven in my new house but i just cant get on with it - recipes that ive perfected over the years are now turning out overcooked, dried up and in some cases not risen - seem to have cooked to fast.
any advice greatfully received!
thanks
sue

Coconut milk

2012-01-29T17:59:40Z

I have a tin of coconut milk lurking in the cupboard which I bought with the thought of making an extra scrummy coconut cake. However, I can only find recipes for things like Thai curry. Anyone know if I can just use the coconut milk instead of ordinary milk in a basic coconut cake recipe or will something weird happen? Also, still on the coconut theme; is it still possible to get sweetened coconut in the little julienne strip version? I don't mean the parings like you get in muesli or standard desiccated but like little twigs - hope you know what I mean! Hope there is a coconut fiend out there that can help. Thanks in advance.