This is a long shot but I am hoping to talk to a group of year 6's (namely 35 x 11 year olds) about South African food. As part of this I'd like them to get involved in cooking some yummy treats! I've found a few recipes that involve making coconut ice (easy is vital) and biscuits / cookies with apricot jam and coconut.

Any ideas would be fantastic!
TIA

Okay, so I decided to make a pan of apple crisp, since I wanted to do something with this package of pre-sliced granny smith apples we bought this weekend. It was extremely easy, since I used a packaged topping mix.

I peeled and cored the apple slices that still had a core (Motts did a pretty good job for me) and mixed the topping with 5 tbsp of butter like the package told me, but I added two handfuls of chopped walnuts and a bit of allspice and nutmeg to the apples (just to make it taste less... packaged). Baked at 375 for 25-30 minutes and TA-DA!

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I wish I had vanilla ice cream. ;_;

Around holidays at work, people always bring in the most amazing baked treats for each other.  But for the last 4 years, there's one goofy kid who's always left out.  He can't have anything with dairy or soy in it, and no one yet has come across a recipe that wouldn't kill our little buddy.  So I call upon you, genius goody-makers of this cummunity, help me satisfy my coworker's allergy-ridden sweet tooth without causing his untimely death!

Much love and appreciation :]

I just received a whole bunch of not-so-fresh oranges and I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for what I could bake with them. They're still good, just getting to the end of their freshness and I know I can't eat them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hey! Thanks for for all the input I got on making a shortbread crust on a pecan pie. And here's my results... oops...


Well, that didn't last long. I used a slightly non-standard recipe (which was gutsy since I've NEVER baked one before, of any kind. I'll give my notes from doing this one, too, for the next time I make it or you might make it, so you have a little easier time than I did.
 
( Recipe follows... )

Baked some peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip squares on a sunday afternoon, and I've got a surprise for you!

( Who doesn't love Peanut butter? )

hello all!  first post here ^_^  normally i don't bake at home, only at school, but we had 18 egg yolks from making angel food cake and white cake that i needed to make something with egg yolks

i really wanted to make else but i am a poor college student so luckily i found a recipe that had what i had at home

( cookies ahoy )
also i've never tagged a post before so i have no idea what to do XD..thanks

I've always wanted to make this, and my fiance has mentioned that he hasn't had one in a long time, so for Halloween I decided to make it. I used a recipe from this one book I bought, called The Essential Baking Cookbook. Enjoy.



( Recipe and more pics )

My friend was in a horrible car accident months ago. She's still in the hospital and is very slowly trying to recover. It's not even guaranteed that she will survive this. Many fundraisers are being held to raise money for her hospital bills. I'm trying to stay involved with them raising as much as I can. The reason I'm posting this here is because in a couple weeks there will be a very large bake sale where all the proceeds will go towards her. I've never been involved in bake sales before so I was wondering what you guys think would be good sellers there. I'd like to keep the recipes as basic as possible but still want them to stand out. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I'm not sure if it matters, but I'm fairly certain that over half of the buyers will be of the "elderly" crowd.

Thank you guys!

Okay so this is a really weird question, but I have a whole bottle of liquid glucose sitting on my desk, rotting away because it was an impulse buy :P Any suggestions from all you pro-bakers as to what to do with it? 

Thanks much in advance!

I've been trying to bake as much as possible recently, despite not having any time. I've also been trying out new recipes rather than the usual ones I know taste nice. In the last week I've made vegan biscotti and rosemary and orange biscuits. These are two things I wouldn't normally make unless I felt like doing something slightly different. Biscotti is mostly eggs in my mind and rosemary belongs with potatoes. Despite this, they both turned out rather nice. The biscotti isn't anything like biscotti made with eggs but that's too be expected and the rosemary and orange biscuits a somewhat unexpected combination (at least for me!) They're still nice though!

( vegan biscotti and buttery rosemary biscuits! )

Testing out one of the Presidential Cookies on my blog HERE. Check it out for some more drool-worthy pictures!
Made with oats, chocolate chips, pecans, and coconut.

( Recipe also behind cut.. )

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Hello all I'm back with another lactose free recipe. I actually found it in Dairy-Free Cookbook by Jane Zukin. I added my own twist by adding nuts to it.

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So I went for my usual walk tonight.  Which, ya know, gives me time to think about things and work shit out.  Fresh air does the body good too.  Now, my thoughts tonight were not (heres a surprise) warm and fuzzy.  They were dark, gloomy, and made of much suck and phail.  Thats just how life goes.  But during the whole walk I was frustrated.  Pissed even.  Only with myself.  Earlier, this same week even, I may have decided to make it a point to stop dwelling on how much my life sucks, and move the fuck on.


You know, most my life I thought very little about myself. Very little.  Like at all.  Didnt chase girls, didnt try to be "cool" or fit in. As I like to say now, I fleetwood mac'd it. Recently, say. . . . . toward the end of Sophmore year of college, I changed.  Begin to worry about not having any close friends, not fitting in, and really being alone the rest of my life.  Starting then, I decided to actually give a damn about what others thought.  And you know what?  Look what happened.  The girl I loved left me. I've burned even more bridges then before.  I dropped out of college and I'm currently jobless. To quote my man, Captain Mal Reynolds "Chya, that went well".

Enough about me right now, I'll get back to that later.  Reading my friends posts, and even just talking to people, I realize one big thing: Life sucks.  Shocking I learned this at the ripe young age of 22, eh?  But it does, and while I dwell on my own problems and feel sorry for myself, I'm letting my friends and loved ones down. 

So here's the quick and good skinny: 'nough of that. I'm going to be there for my friends.  'bout damn time, considering how often they've been there for me.  So if you're reading this, listen up because its time for a little heart to heart.


( Jason: read this )( Jason )

( For Rachel! )( Rachel )
( LeeAnn )

So. . . . . .now what?

Well, I been meaning to write a few letters for awhile now.  Not sure if I should for a good two of them.  All are to ex's, all are for closure (though one I'd keep writing to <3), and they have entirely different motives.  But this is what I think I'll do:

1) every morning, go running
2) every morning, MAKE breakfast (eggs are yummy)
3) every day, study me some math
4) every day, look for jobs till ya get one
5) pray
6) Sundays, (shit,thats tomorrow) go to church.
7) every day, be there for friends
8) every night, go for a walk.
9) Memorize essaysfromexodus.scripting.com/stories/storyReader$1492

The tea is hitting me hard (yay sleep tonight?). So i'm cutting this short.

Hi. It's my friend's birthday today, and we're having a small party tomorrow. She asked me to make her a pecan pie, and I've heard her and my dad say a good pecan pie should have a shortbread crust. I've looked at this thread: http://community.livejournal.com/bakebakebake/2450545.html and various tips throughout BakeBakeBake and I haven't seen any mention of a shortbread crust. Most just say 'one pre-made unbaked crust'. Is the shortbread crust just how people THINK it tastes, or is there a way to make a crust from crushed shortbread/ baked in place like how lemon-bars are? I'm a bit confused by this possibilit, but would like some input. It's my first time trying to make a pecan pie ^^;