Friday, March 25, 2022

The Great Bake Off

 


My son and I have been baking together for a few weeks now - we try to bake the same basic recipe, with each of us 'tweaking' it differently. This was our blueberry loaf bake off week - he baked his in an aluminum pan, and added a streusel topping before baking (see above). I used a silicone pan, and substituted with some wholewheat flour into the mix. It needed about 10 minutes longer to bake than the original recipe. After it had cooled somewhat, I poured a warm lemon syrup over the loaf.

As you can see from the crumb, he was much gentler than I in folding in the blueberries. I loved the cinnamony crumb on his loaf. It made slicing the loaf a little difficult, but not enough to stop it being used again! The lemon syrup got a favorable response, too.



Same basic recipe, but with different treatments, and different outcomes, but each equally successful and tasty, and repeatable. Any parallels here?


2 comments:

Shelley Burbank said...

Both look delish! I’m thinking the real winner here is Dale:) He gets to eat all these wondrous goodies.

Debbie said...

True, but my waistline is 'winning' too!