#baking (7 links)
- Free Cakes for Kids UK freecakesforkids.org.uk
A community service to families who find it difficult to provide a birthday cake for their child. The cakes are baked by volunteers from your community with your kid’s favourite theme or style.
What a fine idea.
- Ming Makes Cupcakes mingmakescupcakes.yolasite.com
Fergus Henderson reveals the secrets behind the delicious eccles cakes ['particularly fine when consumed with Lancashire cheese'] served at the St John restaurants in London.
- Poilâne, boulangerie en ligne poilane.fr
We source our sea salt from Guérande. Our flour is exclusively stone-ground. We work closely with our flour makers to use the very best varieties of wheat. And, we use a piece of dough from the previous batch of bread – the sourdough – as a starter for the next batch. The type of oven used to bake bread is also important. We bake our breads in wood-fired ovens. These ovens are fed with waste wood that cannot be used for any other industry.
"There’s something delightfully Wallace and Gromitey about Poke’s BakerTweet, but not content with its floury goodness I decided to hack it around a bit. I’ve put together an app which takes the feed from Albion’s Twitter account, checks for updates, filters them (I’m only really interested in bread), and if (according to Fire Eagle) I’m within a mile of the bakery, sends me an SMS." Beautiful.
- A dessert to remember | Ask Metafilter ask.metafilter.com
CAKE. etc. "What is the best dessert you have ever created? This applies to cakes, pies, cookies, et cetera."
- Gothamist: Baking Substitutions gothamist.com
Handy substitutions you can make for common baking ingredients