Some therapeutic baking

[wiseheart]

I've made mini Gugelhupfs today, from yeast dough and with lots of candied fruits. Look, how lovely they are:



The recipe is for one big yeast cake, as a rule. But I got this lovely silicone baking tin from Mum for my last birthday, and I thought the things would be less likely to dry out by tomorrow if I made a couple of smaller ones, since they wouldn't be cut until we eat them.

I also did the laundry, made a food run and finished a couple of mini felt mittens for the charity fair. Three others are half-done, all I'll have to do tomorrow is to stitch their two halves together.

Weather has changed rather abruptly. While we were dying from heat during the week, it's now strong winds and storm warnings. I hope the insulation team has done a good job and the balcony will be safe from now on. *fingers crossed*

Comments

[meathiel]

Hmmmm ... the little gugelhupfs look good.
We made a plum cake today (Zwetschgen!) but hadn't bought enough, so 1/3 is apple ... 🙄

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's creative baking! I often find very enticing recipes that require things I simply don't get here, under the rock where I live. So I have to figure out what would work instead — and it usually does!

Two of the little gugelhupfs are already gone. They made a lovely supper!

[meathiel]

Oh, das war gar kein Problem. Wir haben nur eine doppelte Menge Mürbeteig gemacht für ein Blech und da passen ja sowohl Zwetschgen als auch Äpfel ...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Halbe-halbe ist auch praktisch. ;)

[wanderingmogwai.livejournal.com]

Those look delicious. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That they are. And the best part is that they're so unbelievably fluffy!

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Looks so delicious!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Tastes even better! ;)

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

The Gugelhupfs look amazing, and is that an Art Deco plate I see?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't know. It belonged to Grandma. It says on the back that it's Villeroy & Boch, but I have no idea how old it actually is. Grandma would have been 121 last month; she was born in 1900 — which made it easy to keep track on her age. ;)

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Dad used to sell and collect Deco crockery and I absorbed a lot of info on English designs. It caught my eye for having the classic motifs, the fan frill on the rim, and the use of orange... very 1930's for UK pottery. (The use of orange is more of a surprise to me, but I don't know much about continental pottery... though Dad did have a few Villeroy & Boch pieces.)

I'd place it as a piece from the 1930's. Had dad seen such a piece in an antiques shop he would have certainly picked it up thinking it was Clarice Cliff or Carlton Ware, and been disappointed! (I guessed it would not be either of these makes as they were never exported to the continent.)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Truth is, I don't know much about such things. We kept the plate because it's pretty and because it was Grandma's; besides, I prefer crockery to china. Mum's the other way, she's collected quite an amount of Victoria-patterned Herend china which I, personally, find horrible. The important thing is that everyone can have what they like best. :)

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Cake plate looks great, cakes even greater! I never made a gugelhupf with yeast dough, but then again, I did not make that many gugelhupfe at all.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I don't make them very often, but when I do, I prefer the yeast dough. The Rührteig version always turns out too heavy for my personal taste.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Those look really yummy! I am wishing you luck with the balcony.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm still hoping. After all, the whole ordeal cost us two holidays' worth of cash; we should be grateful for Covid, so that we couldn't go anywhere in the last two years and so could finance the insulation work. Still I'd have preferred another way...

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I really hope the balcony 'fix' works. It would save you hours of hard work in winter.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The sad truth is, I couldn't do much against the leakage, aside from wiping up the water. And it happened in every season when the rain was falling in a certain angle, not just in winter.

[medievalrosalie.livejournal.com]

My goodness! Your baking always looks so delicious!