Quarantine baking

[rubysmama]

Baked some oatmeal raisin cookies yesterday.

 

[Winchester]

rubysmama Awww, they look good! Now, I'm hungry for oatmeal raisin cookies!

 

[lizzie]

The other day I made hubby some chocolate chip cookies.The recipe I use I have posted before I think,and it's my go to for most of the cookies I make for him.I reduce the sugar and I always use a small pampered chef scoop,so I get 140 ish cookies,but I was looking to do something different.I used mini chips and I chopped up half of a pint jar of orange marmalade and threw in the mix.You know those orange flavored chocolates around the holidays?Oh my goodness!I will be making them again for sujre!

 

[Winchester]

lizzie Yum! That sounds really good!

 

[Oysterbay]

My sister dropped off some blueberry sourdough muffins — a King Arthur recipe. She used to make them for lunch over summers when we were 10 and 11, out of a box. Secretly I kind of prefer those out of nostalgia purely.

 

[rubysmama]

I had some eggs I had to use up, so made a Banana Loaf yesterday, and Black Bean Brownies today.

 

[susanm9006]

I just made some awesome applesauce bran muffins from scratch. I have been craving them and used to buy the Krusteaz box mix but no one carries it so I decided to give scratch a try. They turned out super moist and not overly sweet.

 

[rubysmama]

I just made some awesome applesauce bran muffins from scratch. I have been craving them and used to buy the Krusteaz box mix but no one carries it so I decided to give scratch a try. They turned out super moist and not overly sweet.

Homemade is usually better (and healthier) than boxed, so not surprised they turned out well.

 

[Winchester]

Here are my applesauce-blueberry-pecan-zucchini muffins. Topped with a wee bit of crumb topping.
I started out with a recipe, but decided to do my own thing. They are decadent! I may call them A to Z Muffins! I opened that corner muffin to get a glimpse inside. Then I ate it. (Don't mind the Halloween liners; they're all I have left. I really need to stock up on baking supplies again. I use liners to keep my pans cleaner.)

 

[susanm9006]

Here are my applesauce-blueberry-pecan-zucchini muffins. Topped with a wee bit of crumb topping.
I started out with a recipe, but decided to do my own thing. They are decadent! I may call them A to Z Muffins! I opened that corner muffin to get a glimpse inside. Then I ate it. (Don't mind the Halloween liners; they're all I have left. I really need to stock up on baking supplies again. I use liners to keep my pans cleaner.)

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They sound just heavenly. The great thing about muffins is that they freeze so well.

 

[rubysmama]

Here are my applesauce-blueberry-pecan-zucchini muffins.

Yum. Those sound and look delicious.

 

[Tobermory]

Aargh! Don’t people have enough yeast by now? I have enough yeast for maybe two more loaves of bread, and then I’m out. I’ve been checking every week at the store for the past several weeks and NO YEAST. Well, there are some packets of rapid rise and pizza yeast, but I don’t know how to use those in my cinnamons bread recipe.

 

[rubysmama]

Have you tried bulk food stores? Or even restaurant supply companies? Around here, especially when restaurants were mostly closed, their suppliers were selling to the general public.The amounts were larger sizes than typically found in grocery stores, but that might work for you, if you bake a lot of bread. Also, maybe check Amazon. It looks like they have several types of different yeast.

 

[Tobermory]

Have you tried bulk food stores? Or even restaurant supply companies? Around here, especially when restaurants were mostly closed, their suppliers were selling to the general public.The amounts were larger sizes than typically found in grocery stores, but that might work for you, if you bake a lot of bread. Also, maybe check Amazon. It looks like they have several types of different yeast.

Thanks for the suggestions! I did a quick check on Amazon, and the couple I looked at were seriously price gouging. But I’ll continue to keep an eye out both in the store and online.

 

[Winchester]

Tobermory King Arthur has yeast and it's not expensive, although you'll pay for shipping: Search | King Arthur Flour

 

[Tobermory]

Tobermory King Arthur has yeast and it's not expensive, although you'll pay for shipping: Search | King Arthur Flour

Oh my gosh! I can’t believe I didn’t think of that given how much time I’ve spent on the KA website! Thanks, Winchester . I’m going to try one of their cocoas, too. I was using the Trader Joe’s cocoa for the KA brownies I make, but I haven’t been to TJ’s since February. I’ve been using Hershey cocoa from the grocery store, and it’s just not as good.

 

[neely]

Here are my applesauce-blueberry-pecan-zucchini muffins. Topped with a wee bit of crumb topping.

They look positively delicious. I'm drooling on my keyboard now.

 

[betsygee]

I had some leftovers in the fridge and decided to do some creative baking. Sometimes it’s fun to google the ingredients I have and see what I can come up with. Some ricotta cheese, caramel sauce, and chocolate chips went into ice cream which turned out YUMMY!



Leftover sour cream and apples went into an apple cake.

 

[Tobermory]

I just placed an order at the King Arthur website: all-purpose flour (on sale and at a better price than I can get it at the grocery store), a pound of active dry yeast (which will last me a looong time, but I’ll share with yeast-deprived neighbors ), espresso powder (I use it in brownies), and the Bensdorp Dutch-Process Cocoa. Can’t wait to try the cocoa and see how it tastes compared to the Hershey’s.

 

[neely]

I finally baked biscottis with the recipe my daughter gave me. I used espresso chocolate morsels instead of chocolate chips.