A baking starter kit?

Lindagaf
Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:33:32 +0000

Not getting her a mixer. It’s not the cost, but the bulk. It’s good exercise too, lol.

I like the idea of parchment because it eliminates the need to grease things, and means one less thing to wash. My D is an expert origami folder. I guarantee she will find a way to make baking containers out of parchment paper. We are a family that likes workarounds. Hence the evolution of our backyard bbq bakery.

No doubt plenty of people do this, but one of our favorite baking tricks is to look at whatever ingredients we have lying around the house and find something to make. For example, she had a small bag of sticky rice flour because she had made a Japanese mochi cake. (I didn’t love that cake, though my son did. You have to like mochi, and I don’t.) She had plenty left over, so she made to die for chewy almond cookies using some sticky rice flour as a sub for some of the regular flour. We also had a random jar of black sesame seeds and she sprinkled them all over the top. They were spectacular. She also made tahini cookies that disappeared in minutes with a jar of tahini that had been sitting in the cupboard for ages.

Anyway, we’ve watched every episode of Bake Off that we can get our hands on. She’s thinking about writing in to suggest they explore more Asian baked good. She’s a big fan of Asian flavors.