The Baking Thread

[Stark Raving]

My Oma made it with the crumbs too.

[Chas]

I enjoy baking - mostly because I like baked goods.

My repertoire is limited to pies, cakes, brownies, and cookies; nothing fancy.

I am the family shortbread cookie maker, though I am trying to teach the next generation.
This is a traditional Scottish shortbread, a family recipe.

Another family recipe is our family birthday cake which is my grandmother's chocolate cake with Sea Foam frosting.

The family recipes are closely guarded secrets. Torture wouldn't make me divulge them.
Sex, yes - torture, no.

[Dom]

(18-11-2012 11:19 AM)Leela Wrote:  

(18-11-2012 08:10 AM)Dom Wrote:  I adore Zwetschgendatschi! The scent alone makes my mouth water! It doesn't have any crumbs on top in Bavaria though.

I don't bake anything I can't throw in my bread machine. Just never got into it. I did make banana bread for a while years ago, that stuff is too good.

I agree, the scent alone is wonderful. Especially freshly baked and it fills the whole kitchen
But I have to disagree on the crumbs:
I am a Bavarian original and I have never had Zwetschgendatschi without the buttercrumbs. Not from the bakery and not from home. Might be special for my area though, dunno. I am originally from Munich.
I know they also sell it without the crumbs sometimes, but I don't feel satisfied without the crumbs!
All hail to the butter crumbs!

That's funny! I am born and raised in Munich, and I never saw any Zwetschgendatschi with crumbs. That would make it Streussel...

[Stark Raving]

Scottish shortbread.....mmmmmmm.....I just got a boner.

[Erxomai]

(18-11-2012 11:51 AM)Stark Raving Wrote:  Scottish shortbread.....mmmmmmm.....I just got a boner.

I see you like icing on yours.

[Vera]

(18-11-2012 11:32 AM)Chas Wrote:  Sex, yes - torture, no.

What about sex that involves torture?

[Chas]

(18-11-2012 12:13 PM)Vera Wrote:  

(18-11-2012 11:32 AM)Chas Wrote:  Sex, yes - torture, no.

What about sex that involves torture?

As long as I have a "safe word".

[Chas]

(18-11-2012 11:52 AM)Erxomai Wrote:  

(18-11-2012 11:51 AM)Stark Raving Wrote:  Scottish shortbread.....mmmmmmm.....I just got a boner.

I see you like icing on yours.

Eeewwwwww.

[Vera]

(18-11-2012 12:49 PM)Chas Wrote:  

(18-11-2012 12:13 PM)Vera Wrote:  What about sex that involves torture?

As long as I have a "safe word".

K, but I've been too worried lately and when I am, I tend to confuse words, a type of receptive aphasia, if you will. A man forewarned, you know...

[Smooshmonster]

I baked a cake for a friend to thank him for baking me a pie.
Then I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to bake cakes for people other than your boyfriend, so I baked a second one for him so he wouldn't get jealous.
Now I have two cakes in my fridge, and they must remain there until Tuesday. That's the hard part.