Baking

The above pictured Hello Kitty cake I made just two days ago for a neighbor daughter’s birthday, which was yesterday. The original plan for this cake was to make it using fondant, however as you can see from the picture above we ended up not using the fondant. As beautiful as fondant cake can be, [...]

If you have been following along in your attempt to make your own sourdough starter, chances are you have succeed in making your own sourdough starter. But now what? You can use the starter to make your bread, or you can put it in the fridge. If you will make the bread leaving your starter [...]

I am sure some of you expected a video yesterday. However, as I explained in the video bellow, the temperature in our kitchen was bellow 70 degrees Fahrenheit and it slowed down the process a little. If your starter began to show some life yesterday, and I hope you did not throw it away, your [...]

Bellow the video are some notes you might want to read. You might want watch the previous video first to grasp of what I am doing. If you have your making your first sourdough starter with me, after the step shown in the above video your starter’s consistency should be just a bit thinker than [...]

In a post which I wrote days before Easter, I promised to make videos about making sourdough bread. Today we begin with making your own sourdough starter. Bellow the video is the recipe I follow with some notes that did not make it into the video. Enjoy! Following is the recipe that I follow (hat [...]

If you ever baked a loaf of bread before, you can easily get hooked on everything related to sourdough. I got hooked a while back, and tried to document some of my early failed attempts to make sour dough starter. Now I generally bake at least one loaf of bread each week, some times more. [...]