Attention visitors to the Yipyap Café!
This month's #KitchenGladiators challenge is macarons!
I've wanted to make these forever, so now I've a reason! But I need help choosing flavors, so I want your input!
So far I'm thinking pistachio and orange.
Gimme others! ^^
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photo of a tray of cinnamon rolls, all frosted and pillowy
If folks don't get tired of seeing them I don't get tired of sharing photos each time I make cinnamon rolls 🧡 Made to share with my walf! ^^
Recipe: www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/perfectly-pillow...
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photo of a pile of the last 4 cookies. they're a short texture with lightly browned edges, flecks of green, and a dark red center splotch on each of guava paste.
Made Cuban lime sugar cookies for a get-together with friends Saturday ^^ if they look green, that's cause they are -- like zest! Rich and delicious, and I put a little dot of guava paste in the center of each.
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photo of a sheet pan of pastry rolls that look like crispy cinnamon rolls almost, but with many many layers of chocolate.
Made these chocolate pastry things on a whim. I made vanilla bean pastry cream to go with but didn't really make the right kind of thing to easily fill. Gonna just split and fill like layers I think.
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a photo of a slice of three-layer cake on a plate, with a pink frosting flecked with darker red bits for the strawberry.
Strawberry cake from last night! I make this every year for @mathias and I for Valentine's now. Cake is colored and flavored solely by really strawberries cooked down, and the frosting is solely colored and flavored with freeze-dried strawberries ^^
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photo top down of a slim tart with a crisp fluted crust, topped generously with fresh kiwi slices and studded all over with blueberries.
a closeup view of the crust edge and some of the glazed fruit of the tart, showing that crisp edge and gentle orange tinted glossiness.
side view of a slice showing the soft custard-y interior, set cleanly with a thin but crisp shortbread crust.
Baked a lovely cream cheese tart with fresh kiwi and blueberries for @toby.nookpup.gay's birthday party ^^ first time making a tart! Was lovely with a shortbread-like crust. Glazed with thinned apricot jam. ^^
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Photo of a cheesecake with a quarter taken out and a quarter sliced. from the top appear concentric rings of vanilla and espresso. The cross section shows how these create alternating curved stripe colors that band outward from the low center towards the ring pattern at the top of the slice. Starting in the center is a large vanilla pool, giving way to a thinner darker curved band of espresso, then vanilla, espresso, vanilla, espresso, and one more vanilla.
Since I was stuck here I baked a cheesecake for my parents -- triple-ginger snaps with some cinnamon for the crust of a vanilla-espresso zebra cheesecake. It was lovely. :kay_happy:
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Platter of small flat oblong brown cookies with crackling on the exterior and a syrup drizzled over many giving a shiny glaze.
close-up of the cookies, some cracked thekigh but mostly a warm nutty brown like pale gingerbread.
Made melomakarona, Greek Christmas cookies, yesterday to take to the family dinner -- gluten-free at that! Rather than top with honey I reduced the soaking syrup to honey consistency once at room temp and gently drizzled that over them. ^^
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Photo of a cooling rack of flaky crispy dark brown rolled buns that were tossed in a cinnamon and spice mixture.
Close-up photo of one of the buns, in which the rolling and the flakiness of the wrapped dough is visible closer.
Presenting my #KitchenGladiators submission for the month of "laminated": cardamom brioche buns! These were a lot of fun, challenging because never done laminated but King Arthur's recipe made it easy to follow! Would definitely make these again!
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photograph across a sheet tray of biscotti. They are a pale pumpkin orange in color, with a darker crust, and have a back and forth glazing of white chocolate drizzled on top
Baked pumpkin biscotti last night with an adjustment to fit #KitchenGladiators for this month: sweetening half with maple syrup! Cooked down pumpkin to cook off excess moisture to be replaced by syrup. Delightful! ^^
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photo of a bunch of cakelettes cut into quarters. One quarter is missing from back cake revealing the red bean filling and chewy inner crumb.
cross section view of a larger Bundt, still a mini. It's matcha green with visible strawberries in it and much more solid of a result, clearly a solid filling and chewy looking given how well it holds shape, like mochi!
Results from tonight's baking: red bean rice cake and strawberry matcha rice cake! Both done like western cakes, but using sweet rice flour. Outstanding! And chewy like mochi! It's like a hybrid between cake and mochi! 🧡
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a tray of cinnamon rolls, each a few inches in diameter with a lovely curling upwards and a cascade of frosting
close up showing the soft pillowy texture of the roll and the crystaly structure of the cinnamon filling clinging on.
Baked cinnamon rolls for my walf and I! Second time making them, lovely every time ^^
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Photo of a whole multi-layer cake! The bottom layer is a shortcake layer, followed by a tall thick fruit layer, another shortcake layer, and then a tall tan whipped topping.
Slice of the cake giving a full cross-sectioned view of the thing, cream and fruit and all! The cake looks a little thick in spots on top but mostly dense, it just didn't rise enough.
Plum and Peaches-&-Cream Shortcake! A filling of peaches, plums, and basil to a shortcake with a whipped cream topping folded with gelled peaches using pectin!
Recipe here: tandoor.sqkyote.me/view/recipe/44/d694fa75-...
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Photo of a cake, slightly out of focus, but with a curious mixed crumb, stemming from being cake flour and almond flour (and even semolina because I missed that I had more almond.) It's brushed and bespeckled in yellow.
Slightly different focal point of the same cake, closer getting a better look at the shine of the soak for it.
I was a little indisposed Thursday night, but I baked this orange blossom honey almond yogurt cake and absolutely loved it! Would play more with spicing and the like next time to tweak slightly, or maybe do something with apricots for filling or even a blend! […]
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Okay #FediBakes or someone who knows baking science much more than I do -- how come when I bake rolls and slice them the two surfaces are concave? I see the same thing with store-bought pre-split buns too. What causes that? It's hard to pan-toast! #baking
Photograph of a tray of just baked buns, faintly glistening from a butter basting. They're all a nice burnished brown, though the furthest to the left front has a weird pimple where it must have had an oversized air bubble expand during baking.
I baked burger buns <3
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A cooling rack dotted with fresh burger buns with an uneven burnishing from the oven, glistening from a butter brushing.
I baked burger buns, not potato buns this time, just simple enriched rolls. ^^
Done without the egg wash from here: www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/beautiful-burger...
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Photo of a tray of cookies, close-up on some. They're flecked with various size pieces of chocolate and oats and crispy puffed rice, and sprinkled with little white flakes of sea salt varyingly.
And the completed, baked cookies, sprinkled with a tiny bit of finishing flaky sea salt!
Now to quickly pack the cooled ones while these cool and then hopefully be able to quickly pack these too!
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Hey #BakersOfMastodon, where do you like to buy high-quality baking chocolate from? I'm interested in Valrhona chocolate but I doubt their site is the cheapest. Or if you like another brand, I'm all ears!
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Photo of about a third of a 9-inch cake. The top is a crispy, lightened chocolate hue, and the body looks like a light brownie almost but with a melty core under the surface.
The remains of the cake today. Very crispy on top, shockingly light. I imagine if I baked it low and for longer to set it through, it'd be almost like a set chocolate mousse. Shockingly light. Will make again!
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