/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I'm bad at presentation, I know, but this was the most fun and different, yet not TOO hard recipe I tried this year.

It is just simple vanilla mini cakes with orange gelatin topping and (dark) chocolate. Can just use a bowl and a muffin tin.

>>10721223
inb4 they look like shit

they tasted great

They look really messy cuz I forgot to spread the biscuits out before cooking, and I just sort draped the chocolate atop them inelegantly, but they taste amazing.

I used this recipe:

https://marshasbakingaddiction.com/homemade-jaffa-cakes/

and modified it about.

I don't think it called for salt, so I added about a quarter teaspoon of that, as well as a quarter teaspoon of MSG. Add MSG to ALL your baked goods, it is REALLY nice. Never omit salt!

I also kinda wanted more orange jelly so I upped the juice to 3/4 cup and I used tangelo juice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangelo

(hybrid of pomelo and tangerine)

and so I added commensurately 1/8 cup more sugar. I used toasted sugar, per the Stella Parks Serious Eats recipe, for the jelly and cakes. It is crystalline caramelized sugar that makes your baked goods less sickeningly sweet if you use it in place of regular granulated sugar. I also added a bit of tangelo zest to the cookies and the jelly, probably 1 tsp to the cakes and 1.5 tsp to the jelly. I topped them with the generic 78% Swiss dark chocolate they sell at the grocery store.

I also subbed whole wheat flour for the regular flour. I know they look like a 7 year old decorated them, but I promise you they taste lovely. Someone was mentioning these in a baking thread on here, so thanks for the inspiration, if that was you.

/Baking General/

Homemade edition!