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I was asked if I would bake a cake for a birthday. I said sure! I was given a recipe, which is interesting, but odd. I was trying to look up this cake (it was just typed as G's Apricot Torte Cake). to help "translate" some of the ingredients - sweet chocolate, is it milk chocolate? and Sweet butter, unsalted or salted? Anyway, I can experiment first and figure that out. So, this...

First time making a berry galette. The filling seemed too runny/soupy. I assume this can be remedied with adding more cornstarch. I used a sheet of puff pastry and baked at 425 degrees for 25 minutes per the recipe. The bottom was kind of rubbery and hard to cut with a fork. A different recipe called for baking longer at 375 degrees. Would this help or is the filling too soggy? ...

Does anyone know what is the ingredient in Vital Wheat Gluten that makes the bread rise.

with all ingredients the same, lately the loaves are lower.

If we knew what the ingredient is we would add some more.

Reached the Yeast limit - tastewise
Thanks

I have a bunch of vanilla cupcakes in the freezer with no icing on them and, when my husband said he wanted a dessert, I got a few out. After I cut them in half, toasted them; and laid three halves on each plate I put about a tablespoon of cold milk on each. Then I heated some cut frozen strawberries with honey in the microwave and spooned it on top.

When I presented hi...

I was not sure if this was even possible so I googled it and an AI generated answer said if you dont have dark chocolate liquor , to replace it with cocoa powder ...
But it did not go into much detail than that. How many Tablespoon of cocoa powder should I use with 300 gram milk chocolate ???

The chocolate chips Im using to melt Look like 15mm Discs. I see & Lea...