Baking, motherf**ker, can you do it?!

[ShaqLevick]

Fuck yeah I can bake. I usually like to make up some potato bread, and I make a killer apple tart. But for the holidays nothing beats cinnamon brioche and coffee... To be fair I'm a chef by trade.

 

[Exocet]

When I bake a cake without following a recipe(I'm hardcore like that),the end result is always a fugly ass "thing" with the same density as concrete,but the flexibility of rubber.
It looks like crap,feels like crap,but it's so good!
You just need to close your eyes and picture a real cake.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I can bake, but I don't especially care to. However, I'm a good cook and quite happy to do that, as long as I'm not stuck doing it every night. The difference here is that cooking, when you know what you're doing, is more art than science, while baking is more science than art. With baking, you're looking for a specific, complicated chemical reaction that has a lot of tedious steps involved, whereas with cooking, you're pretty much just throwing stuff into a pot until it tastes good. I find one of these a whole lot less boring than the other.

 

[Broady Brio]

If you asked me 2 years ago, then I would've said yes.

I've forgotten it all.

 

[DocBalance]

I generally don't bake this mysterious "motherf*ker", how does one prepare it?

 

[Warchiefwill]

This tread is making me hungry

 

[Koski]

Heck Yes, Badass gingerbread cookies and lussebullar (saffron buns) at this time of year.

Baking skills, I has them.

 

[El Poncho]

I can only fry things, I wish I could bake! Only real men can bake!

 

[William Dickbringer]

I bake every once in a while I make cakes, cookies, and brownies
I last thing I made was chocolate cookies with peanut butter frosting they were good and before that I made chocolate cheese cake brownies oh those were the best

 

[Polyintrinsic]

Made an apple pie this morning for christmas dinner. GONNA BE GOOD! I worked at a bakery, but i only washed the dishes.... doesnt stop my family from insisting on me baking stuff though... Fuckers

 

[My name is Fiction]

So, I'm currently in the middle of crafting the most thoroughly bitchin' cinnamon rolls in existence (I know, because I made them last year, and they kicked ass). I'm in the "wait for the dough to rise" phase. They are shaping up to be my new favorite part of Christmas morning, if they wind up as good as last time.

But that's enough about me. The point of this thread is to ask the question in the title: Do you bake? How often? What is your favorite baked good, either to make or to eat?

At its core, this thread is about things that are baked, and the people who bake them. Discuss.

Edit: So, my cinnamon rolls didn't rise. Apparently, I killed the yeast. I admit, I'm not actually that good a baker. But dammit, I am not about to let a bunch of pansy-ass fungus end my quest for awesome breakfast tomorrow! I will prevail! Manly Bakers don't give up.

"I must say you are the most RANGERIFIC Baker I have ever known."
150 points!

 

[Assassin Xaero]

From what people have said, my chocolate chip cookies are the best they've ever had...

 

[RoBi3.0]

Short answer:

Yes

P.S. yeast is not a fungus.

 

[kalt_13]

I'm a bit of an unusual case, being a teenaged boy who loves baking, but I bake regularly, mostly of cakes of the sweet variety.

-snip-

Also, as a little side note, I hate ready-bake cakes, the ones where it's just a powder which you add water/milk to and it's good to go. Takes all the fun out of the baking, and I've never tasted a ready-bake cake which can stand toe-to-toe with a cake made from fresh ingredients and every part made by hand.

I was the same as a teenager, now i have a crappy oven that can't keep temperature right so i dont bake anymore.

Definatly agree with starting from scratch is better than packet cakes

I've got a cooking playlist with Manowar and Omen on it.

never thought of doing that i'm gunna have to steal your idea

 

[game-lover]

I am very skilled at making the sweet potato pies. I make them for every holiday season!

Mmmm...

 

[Daveman]

I can... I bake cakes on occasion, mostly sponge cakes... they get foamy

[sub]like your mum.[/sub]

 

[Denamic]

Yes.
I hate doing it, but when I do it, it turns out well.
Same thing as with cooking in general for me.

 

[Thedayrecker]

I tried once..... boy was that a mistake...

 

[Callate]

I tend to let my wife handle desserts (I do virtually all other cooking, though.) I make pretty good peanut butter cookies, coconut macaroons, and creme brulee, though.

In non-dessert baking, I've also been known to make pizza dough, naan, pita bread, and dinner rolls. Owning a bread machine makes several of these things somewhat easier- the machine can handle the dough and its rising cycles, and then one just has to take it out and shape, cut, roll, or bake as apropriate.

 

[sgt. soap mctavish]

"I've had it with these mother fucking cakes in this mother fucking tray!"

And no, I don't.

lol