Nov 2024
8:13pm, 4 Nov 2024
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LindsD
Yum!
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Nov 2024
8:22pm, 7 Nov 2024
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Oranj
That's a good looking experiment with sourdough, I'd never have thought of muffins.
I was spurred back into baking action recently: at work they wanted some bakes for a halloween bake sale. I made some rather underwhelming cup cakes
But then having got my cake mojo back, I made a really good chocolate orange sponge this week for the office (Nelly went out of GBBO - she was my sweepstake pick so this was a forfeit). Very happy with how it turned out as I sort of made it up from an amalgam of three different recipes. When I chucked it in the oven I realised my made-up recipe didn't have any baking powder in it, but the self-raising flour I used saved it.
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Nov 2024
8:23pm, 7 Nov 2024
59,038 posts
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EvilPixie
All look good enough to eat so winning!
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Nov 2024
8:24pm, 7 Nov 2024
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LindsD
Looks amazing
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Nov 2024
3:10pm, 8 Nov 2024
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Nov 2024
8:54am, 11 Nov 2024
7,542 posts
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Little Miss Happy
Advice/experience please. I made a rum and pineapple boiled fruit cake yesterday and was wondering if there's any way I can keep it until Xmas? I'm not going to bother making a xmas cake just for me and don't really want to freeze it as I have loads of cake in the freezer (I like baking but don't eat enough on my own and although I tend to distribute stuff around the village and to friends I still have a surplus) and being gf things tend to be even crumblier than usual after being frozen. I've searched the internet but there's conflicting advice. Some say wrap it up in greaseproof or foil and it will keep for months, some say to feed it and wrap it whilst others say keeps for up to ten days so wondering if anyone had made one and kept it?
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Nov 2024
10:30am, 11 Nov 2024
70,925 posts
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LindsD
I haven't but I don't see why it wouldn't keep. Would probably try to limit air exposure so it doesn't go mouldy, but given that people keep wedding cakes for years and Christmas cakes for weeks, it should be fine for the next six.
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Nov 2024
10:47am, 11 Nov 2024
59,121 posts
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EvilPixie
I'd agree
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Nov 2024
10:54am, 11 Nov 2024
68,889 posts
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Derby Tup
I would think it’d be fine. Eating it this week would be the threat here
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Nov 2024
12:19pm, 11 Nov 2024
7,543 posts
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Little Miss Happy
Thanks. I'll give one a feed, wrap it up and hope. I'd be really upset if it went off and I wasted all the ingredients.
This is the recipe:
Boiled pineapple fruit cake 500g mixed dried fruit 50g glace cherries (optional) 450g can crushed pineapple 125g unsalted butter, cubed 180g brown sugar (I used 150g dark brown and would probably reduce to 130g) 1 tsp bicarb soda 2 eggs, lightly beaten 120g plain flour 120g self raising flour Instructions Place dried fruit (soaked overnight in 120ml rum), pineapple (don't drain it), butter, sugar and bicarb in a saucepan and bring to the boil on a medium heat. Remove from the stove and leave to cool. Add in eggs and mix well. Sift in the flour and mix it in well.
Pour into a lined 20cm square tin and place in a preheated oven 180C/350F and bake for at least 45 minutes to 1 hour.
Nowhere near as rich or dense as a Xmas cake which is why I'm worried.
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