Neia masksSep 26, 2023
@dessertgeek Those are certainly good options for facing your fears. I've done crepe cake before and it's not scary once you've done it. Rough puff feels like it's going to be only a bit harder than a pie crust.

Cream puffs... I might need my spouse for emotional support. And soufflé is reputedly scary, but I think if it collapses, it will still be tasty.

So let's be brave!
Tonya Marie 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 6, 2023

... and why are there three distinct sets of ingredients?

Part I: Pie crusts made a few weeks ago and frozen. One from my "traditional" recipe, and one from Kenji Lopez-Alt, as recommended by @dessertgeek as part of last month's #SmallBatchBakeAlong that I didn't finish because I got sick 😠

Part 2: Butter, Milk, Corn Syrup, Vanilla, Powdered Sugar, and Dark Chocolate chunks

Part 3: Eggs, Butter, Sugar, Lemons

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Show threadTonya Marie 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 9, 2023

OK, after 2 hours of chill, Kenji's dough has hydrated nicely. It's still a lot moister than mine, but with a little extra flour on the mat it rolled out beautifully. That extra butter is quite apparent in how it stretches while rolling - you can even see it in the rolled out dough.

This is also rather thicker than mine for the same basic area, so that extra 1/2 cup of flour and the extra butter are doing another job as well. I may end up having to roll it out a little more after I thaw and unwrap it. I'm excited to compare them over the next few weeks!

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Show threadTonya Marie 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 9, 2023

Initial thoughts while they are chilling: With a large amount of water added in all at once, this is a very wet and sticky dough compared to mine. I'll be interested in how the long chill/hydration session affects it.

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Tonya Marie 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 9, 2023

As part of @dessertgeek #SmallBatchBakeAlong , I'm prepping pie crusts for future use. She had suggested Kenji Lopez-Alt's recipe from Serious Eats (https://www.seriouseats.com/easy-pie-dough-recipe), so I am going to make that along with the recipe I've been using for over a quarter of a century (egad, I'm old...)

On the left is my recipe, which uses a single stick of butter and an egg, some powdered sugar, and water spritzed from a spray bottle until just enough has been added. It also doesn't use salt, which I recognize as odd, and yet it has always been that way. 🤷‍♀️

On the right is Kenji's, with two and a half sticks of butter (and no egg), salt, granulated sugar, with a precise measure of water. The dough is divided into two parts.

Easy Pie Dough (Crust) Recipe

This foolproof all-butter pie dough recipe uses a food processor to make a dough that's easy to work with and bakes up beautifully, every time.

Serious Eats
Liz the Urban BirderJul 27, 2023
@dessertgeek Thanks for the update! I had been thinking about the #SmallBatchBakeAlong and assessing my energy, which hasn't been the best this summer. On top of that, we are doing more ice-cream making than pie baking because of the heat! Not sure I'd participate but I won't deny that I can be persuaded...!
Jess ChoApr 24, 2023
It seems like whenever I’m hit with baked goods cravings and zero energy, along comes #SmallBatchBakeAlong. I had neither a mini-loaf pan nor the wherewithal to make crumb, so I chucked the brown sugar and cinnamon directly into the batter and made coffee cake adjacent mini-muffins (like the ones that came in a bag back in elementary school, but 100x nicer). So more like small batch bake adjacent? Either way, they’re delightful, would bake like this again.
Liz the Urban BirderApr 22, 2023
This past week flew by & I forgot to check the recipe for coffee cake; plus, not all of us in the household like coffee cake & some of us do like apple cake... So before I go looking at the recipe for this week's #SmallBatchBakeAlong for #scones--OMG am I behind?!--I went looking for a recipe for apple coffee cake. I made it but when I cut the recipe in half, I didn't think abt how the dimensions of the pan might change the assembly of the cake! https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/280118/apple-crumble-coffee-cake/
Apple Crumble Coffee Cake

Chef John's tempting apple crumb cake has diced apples layered with a buttery cinnamon-walnut crumble for an elevated, irresistible coffee cake.

Allrecipes
Liz the Urban BirderApr 16, 2023
Well, first attempt at the #BuckeyeBalls failed 😞
We’re not sure why—a mismeasurement of the powdered sugar…? But the batter was also far too sweet to try to salvage it. We’re not giving up!
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Liz the Urban BirderApr 15, 2023
Gah! How did it get to be Saturday and we haven't made time yet to make *this* week's #SmallBatchBakeAlong recipe for buckeyes? ....Oh right: I've been preparing for a hybrid regional event for which I have significant responsibilities!! ....plus I was quarantining after a Covid exposure (tested neg a few days ago) so all of that upended our timeline! Will see about making them this weekend...
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