Bearded Baby

I just had to post this picture of Brayden. We checked a book out of the library called Whopper Cake. It is about a grampa that makes a HUGE cake for his wife's birthday. It is so big he has to bake it in the bed of his pick-up truck. At the end of the story they give the recipe. It is one of those old fashoned, made-from-scratch type recipes. We happend to have all the required ingredients so we whipped it up. It baked for 50 minutes even though the book said about 30 minutes. It didn't come out of the oven too pretty because we had to keep checking it and that made the cake fall. It was one of the moistest cakes I have ever had. You will have to check the book out of our library to get the recipe.

New Bread Recipe

On Saturday Wendy's aunt stopped by to visit for a little while and brought over a DVD for us to look at. It was a instruction video from Pantry Secrets on how to make bread in less than 1 hour. It piqued our interest, especially since our bread machine takes 2 hours on the rapid cycle.

This recipe calls for 6 ingredients and about 10 minutes of prep time. It makes 4 loaves of bread, or a few dozen rolls, or pizza crust, bread sticks, hot dog buns, or whatever you want. Pretty amazing. The video calls for the dough to me mixed in a Bosch universal kitchen machine (which we have) but you can mix the dough by hand if you want the exercise.

10 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon salt
3 heaping tablespoons yeast
4 cups hot water
3 tablespoons Soy lecithin

Wendy's aunt figures she can make a loaf of bread for about 12 cents. WOW!! Just that day we had visited the bread store and filled our freezer with about $40 worth of bread. According to her calculations we could have made 300 loaves for the same price as our 30 that we bought.

That convinced us to get some soy lecithin (I mean, who stocks that in their pantry).
After I left for work on Monday Wendy got down to work and whipped up some bread following this recipe. Here are some pictures.






The braided loaf was a desert filled with a sugary cream cheese filling.

Today, Wendy made pizza with this recipe and it was AWESOME.