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I made soup yesterday, and today I am making biscuits to go along with my leftover soup. Off the internet, assuming I can't get my Mom on the phone. She's got the recipe we always use memorized, and I can only remember enough to know that none of the ones I'm finding are it. :(

Either way, though, after that I'm trying this oven s'mores recipe I got in a book I picked up at a yard sale last week. Super excited for that! Who else is baking, and what are you making? What's your favourite? Recipes and suggestions always appreciated!

I need to bake banana bread since I have some old brown bananas in the freezer that have been there for a while. Dunno if I will do it soon, though, since I'm trying to clean my apartment up properly before starting any more projects.

I recently made pigs in blankets, which probably don't count, but they're darn tasty. :D

Before that, though, I made a really delicious cherry cake with a crumb topping. My 5-year-old helped me make the crumbs and the whole thing was delicious. I also love making Nigella Lawson's recipe for coconut cake.

Hope you get ahold of the biscuit recipe ok!

I'm not one for baking, I'm afraid. I've tried making bread a few times but the texture is always wildly off.

Last week I made oatmeal cranberry white chocolate cookies from the recipe off the back of the Craisins bag. One of the few combinations where white chocolate really shines.

Oh oh I always use the James Beard recipe for biscuits.

2 cups APF, sifted (or just whisked around a bit)
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup butter (shortening or margarine are acceptable substitutes)
1/3-1/2 cup milk, more if making drop biscuits
1 tsp sugar (optional)
add ins (optional)
Preheat oven to 425F

Mix dry ingredients, cut in butter or shortening, if using add-ins (raisins, cheddar cheese, etc) toss in at this stage, then add enough milk until where the dough just clings together. If you want to make drop biscuits add enough milk to the point where the dough is clinging and sticky when mixed.

Either bring together with hands and then cut or drop large spoonfuls onto a lined or greased cookie sheet.

Bake 12-15 minutes or until tops are barely golden.

I accidentally read this too fast as "the James Bond recipe for biscuits."

Fanfic ahoy? ;)

It would make me way more interested in Bond if he secretly had a love of baking delicate pastries, and wasn't just a straight Gary Stu.

He makes them while listening to chamber music.

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herpymcderp - 2015-09-27 21:07 (UTC) - Expand

I misread the whole title as Banking and my brain just spent this whole thread awesomely confused.

But a James Bond who loved to bake would be fucking amazing.

(Also Herpy I am stealing your recipe. Biscuuuuuuuuitsssss. ♥)

That looks very similar to the one I was looking for. All the ones online had sugar in them. Ours was in the Five Roses cookbook, I think. One of the oldest/best loved cookbooks Mom has.

Ours were rolled, but I think I'll try these ones. I'll let you know how they turn out!

:D Yay! If you're into SUPER LIGHT biscuits, then try subbing around 3 tbsp. of the flour with cornstarch.

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herpymcderp - 2015-09-27 23:02 (UTC) - Expand

I baked cinnamon rolls last week to satisfy a craving, but its been too hot to bake here (California). Waiting for cooler weather, which will hopefully be here soon.

Today I'm baking oatmeal chocolate chip cookies from the Quaker Oats container and just substituting chocolate chips in for raisins.

I pretty much bake any and all cookies. My favorites are gingerbread and sugar cookies, I LOVE SHAPES! I made Star Wars ones on Thursday and last Sunday I did elephants, hippos, and unicorns.

If you want the recipes, I can type them up.

I also make these amazing jack and coke brownies and these White Russian cupcakes.

Jack and coke brownies? Yes please!

I love cookies, too. Star Wars ones sound awesome!

Maybe the sugar cookie recipe too, if you don't mind? It's usually hit or miss for me with those, so I'd like a tried and true recipe.

Jack and Coke Brownies (The recipe is originally written for rum and coke, I tweaked it for Jack, but feel free to use either)

1 1/2 C flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
10 oz bittersweet chocolate chopped (I use semisweet chocolate chips)
1/2 lb butter (2 sticks), softened
1 C sugar
3 eggs
1/2 C coke
1/2 C rum/jack

Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Melt chocolate using a double boiler.

In a large bowl, beat sugar and butter until light and fluffy with an electric mixer. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add in chocolate and beat until well-incorporated. With a wooden spoon, gently stir in flour, salt and baking soda. Gently pour in coke and rum and pour batter into 13x9 greased pan.

Bake 32-35 minutes. Cool brownies in pan completely

Sugar Cookies (from the Better Homes and Garden cookbook)

2/3 C butter, softened
3/4 C sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1 Tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 C flour
optional icing.

Preheat oven to 375 F.

Beat butter and sugar in large mixing bowl.

Add vanilla, egg, and milk. Beat until well mixed.

Add flour and beat in as much as you can, then stir by hand. Stick in fridge about 2 hours.

On lightly floured surface, roll out cookies. Use cookies cutters. Bake 7 to 8 minutes.

TIPS: I'm lazy and usually make the dough one night and bake the next. I can't wait for butter to soften, so I microwave it in increment of 15 seconds. I chop the butter up before I microwave it. This makes the mixing process easier, but also means it takes longer to chill. Feel free to ask questions

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shortysc22 - 2015-09-27 21:29 (UTC) - Expand

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shortysc22 - 2015-09-27 23:53 (UTC) - Expand

I'm not much of a baker, but I do have a banana bread recipe I love, from the 1987 Southern Living cookbook. It's amazing on its own, but you can also throw nuts, chocolate chips, dried fruit, whatever into it.

Do you mind adding the recipe? I think the one I usually make came from the Company's Coming Kids Cookbook, but I'm always up for variations.

OOH GURL(/GENTLEMAN)

like half my job is baking. It didn't start out that way - I work in a cafe, so it's like barista...ing, making sandwiches, serving people, cleaning up after em, etc etc but everyone's expected to do a LITTLE baking out of our stock recipes. But doing it for a few months made me realize I friggin' love baking, and I'm good at it too, and I started playing around with the recipes and bringing in new ones of my own and doing it at home and now pretty much every day I'm here the people I work with just pass off all the baking that needs to be done to me. It's AWESOME.

Today I made gluten-free brownies and ~dream bars~~ (shortbread crust, then essentially just eggs and sugar and coconut and chocolate baked on top. Ohh my god) and tomorrow I'm gonna try a banana blueberry bread.

Ooh, the dream bars sound amazing! The bread probably will be, too. A regular at my old job used to bring in baking, and she did this banana, blueberry, zuchinni bread. It was good, but the green tinge made it a little off putting to look at.

I TOTALLY FEEL THAT. I've tried making zucchini bread recently, and it WAS good but yeah, it didn't sell too well until I put a cream-cheese icing on top. It's really light and fluffy though - like banana bread but without the banana taste

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kitelovesyou - 2015-09-27 23:41 (UTC) - Expand

sometime in the next couple of weeks I plan to bake an apple pie (just craving pie, idk) and I want to try a recipe someone gave me for churro cheesecake bars. I've found similar recipes online marked as sopapilla cheesecake bars, but my friend made some changes from those to make them more churro-like.

Biscuits and soup sound like the best thing ever. I love soup so much and I rarely cook, but soups are one of my favorite things to make. It's so soothing. I don't have a recipe for anything special, but I do like to bake sheet cookies and make shapes out of them.

It's amazing! Potato and corn chowder with ham and cheese biscuits!

Baking is my go-to stress release. Especially either things with apples or something like bread.

Er, reading back through this, the ham is in the soup, not the biscuits. It's confusing up there.

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