Like a ton of others right now I'm obsessed with baking warm comforting carbohydrates :)
I have a sourdough starter in the fridge and have been using it off and on for at least a year now. Bread and crackers are my specialty. But even those I haven't been very good at. Luckily, just out of the oven bread is good even when it is not exactly correct. The crackers have been getting better and I may have the hang of them now. Turned out the oven is not the temperature it thinks it is. Getting an oven thermometer has helped. Measure everything by weight! Practice practice practice.
Anyway!
Now that we have lots of time I've decided to try my hand at other bread products. I may have gone overboard in the beginning. I was keeping the starter going and making something every other day. I have since settled down to once or twice a week.
Pretzels made with some discarded starter was a no-brainer. What to do with the leftover starter is a sticking point of mine, I hate just throwing it away.
Easy dough.
Not too hard to shape them approximately.
They didn't brown, but the taste was good. Made these a second time and may soon do the third.
Trying different bread recipes.
This one proofed in the bottom of a tupperware so I could measure the rise.
Worked out well enough.
Oh man. This has become the favorite. I combine it with the 2019 King Arthur cheesy pizza recipe. It proofs in the fridge for 12-72 hours and is super easy. I do think the Pizza Dough Flavor is important to the taste.
We prefer a thiner crust, so spreading it out into two pans has been ideal for us.
So good! We finished off in no time and I quickly made more dough.
To balance out the cheese and sauce it takes 3 batches of dough, 2 pizzas each batch. As of this writing we just finished round three....18 pizzas! So yeah, love this recipe.
And finally, cinnamon rolls. O.M.G. These are sooooo good. I'm very pleased with my square, even dough.
mmmmm cinnamon sugar
Roll it up, cut slices, arrange and proof in the fridge overnight.
Next morning!
Sloppy icing job and we dug into them so fast I forgot to take a picture until it was almost too late. I want to make these again on a day when I know this is all I will eat-LOL! (or a cinnamon babka, so many good options!)
Final pictures are cakes from 2019, all with the neighbor TT.
Plain yellow cake with caramel frosting and apple slices. So good we made it a second time.
The winner of Battlebots gets a giant nut. For the opening show we wanted a cake. It took a bit of math, but we turned a round cake into a hexagon.
Gray is a hard color to make :)
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