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winterEaster's around the corner, so yesterday I did my first baking run, making babas.
The thing is, I bought a set of silicone baking pans a while ago, and I'd only tried out the muffin ones before. The bundt/baba pan looked perfect - it's just the kind of fiddly, easily adherent cake you want to be able to peel out of a form.
Only it stuck like hell, with half of it breaking apart. And the half of it that didn't, was nowhere near as crisp as it should have been.
Thankfully I was making two anyway, and I had my trusty metal pan. But a question for the baking subset of the f-list - is this just how silicone pans are, or just cheap ones? Or is silicone only suitable for muffins?
* Take 1 stick of butter (250g)
* Add 1 glass of sugar and one sachet of vanilla sugar, mix with a handheld mixer until fluffy
* Add 4 eggs, mix with the mixer once more
* Add 1 glass of milk, mix and mix
* Add 1 glass of fine flour, mix again
* Add 1 glass that's half normal wheat flour, half potato starch. This cake is hell to do if you don't have a mixer, incidentally
* Add 1 packet of baking powder and a more-than-generous amount of grated lemon zest (I used dried). You know the drill
Then you can finally put the mixer down, pour it in a baking pan (which doesn't have to be a bundt pan if it isn't easter) and chuck it in an oven for 45 minutes at 180 C. Once out and cooled down, you can sprinkle the thing with icing sugar or put lemon icing on it. Covered with cloth, this cake lasts for a week or more :)
The thing is, I bought a set of silicone baking pans a while ago, and I'd only tried out the muffin ones before. The bundt/baba pan looked perfect - it's just the kind of fiddly, easily adherent cake you want to be able to peel out of a form.
Only it stuck like hell, with half of it breaking apart. And the half of it that didn't, was nowhere near as crisp as it should have been.
Thankfully I was making two anyway, and I had my trusty metal pan. But a question for the baking subset of the f-list - is this just how silicone pans are, or just cheap ones? Or is silicone only suitable for muffins?
Lemon baba recipe
* Take 1 stick of butter (250g)
* Add 1 glass of sugar and one sachet of vanilla sugar, mix with a handheld mixer until fluffy
* Add 4 eggs, mix with the mixer once more
* Add 1 glass of milk, mix and mix
* Add 1 glass of fine flour, mix again
* Add 1 glass that's half normal wheat flour, half potato starch. This cake is hell to do if you don't have a mixer, incidentally
* Add 1 packet of baking powder and a more-than-generous amount of grated lemon zest (I used dried). You know the drill
Then you can finally put the mixer down, pour it in a baking pan (which doesn't have to be a bundt pan if it isn't easter) and chuck it in an oven for 45 minutes at 180 C. Once out and cooled down, you can sprinkle the thing with icing sugar or put lemon icing on it. Covered with cloth, this cake lasts for a week or more :)
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Date: 2009-04-09 09:25 am (UTC)I shall attempt this recipe you have given us and let you know if it turns out all right!
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Date: 2009-04-09 09:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-04-09 09:43 am (UTC)