Made a Key west cake with mango mousse and ginger lime cream yesterday. The frosting is essentially whipped cream. Recipes state that whipped cream will not be stable. I take this to work so that does mean I have to do a quick frosting on Monday morning, rather than taking time with it. Limes I bought had no juice so subbed with lemon juice. And I realized way too late that Key West probably is referring to Key Limes....
Made mango mousse/no-bake cheese cake. Mixed two recipes. Sponge cake from https://tatyanaseverydayfood.com/mango-mousse-cake/ and mousse/jelly layer from https://www.recipetineats.com/no-bake-mango-cheesecake/ Ingredients are eggs, sugar, vanilla, flour, baking powder, mango puree, gelatin, cream cheese, caster sugar, heavy cream, and lemon juice. Contains gelatin so not suitable for lacto-ova vegetarians. It does look visually stunning but I am a bad photographer. Check the linked recipe blogs for better pictures. On an unrelated note, make sure to have better lighting when taking food pics....
Recipe from https://butternutbakeryblog.com/cookie-dough-cake/ Baked a cookie dough cake. Wanted to find a recipe that had cookie dough in the cake layers and this seemed to be the only one. As usual, I found the American butter cream to be too sweet and cut the sugar, even after cutting recipe from original to about about 70%. Frosting was somewhat gritty as well. Not sure if my mistake on whipping it for lower time or recipe issue due to addition of flour, maybe I’ll replace it with a cream cheese based one if I ever make this again....
Made blondies from the recipe https://smittenkitchen.com/2006/11/blondies/ Added chocolate chips, dried blueberries and rum. Used the suggestion for adding alcohol, but I didn’t have whisky or bourbon, so added rum. I basically keep a bottle of alcohol for baking projects and didn’t realize that rum would be much stronger than the suggestions so these did taste strongly of that flavor. I really liked them!
I tried to go the soylent route a while back. Not really sure why, except I was probably on a self improvement kick and probably thought of time spent on food as a time waste. I gave up on it pretty quickly as food is much more important to me than just nutrition. But I did find a sort of complete meal banana bread recipe that I still make sometime. The macros are semi decent, IIRC....
I bake frequently and one thing I have missed while baking is square shaped sandwich bread. Plopping dough into a dutch oven is nice and all, but if I want a peanut butter sandwich, I want something square. So I recently got a pullman loaf pan. Recipe for 8.3 x 4.8 x 4.4 inches pan. It is labeled as Pullman Loaf Pan with Lid 1lb (450g). I have no idea what 450 g means here....