I baked a few things yesterday....

Okay maybe more than a few

It always starts so simple, oh I just will make one or two things. Also I used cuts to hide the recipes but not the pictures so if you aren't interested, scroll fast!

So I had the sourdough "rising" on the counter, I threw that into the oven at some point. It uhh, turned out weird so I threw it out. I'm going to try again soon. It smelled weird but I don't know if that was the teff flour or not. I'm going to try and transition my starter to sorghum flour entirely since I don't really like the amount of teff flour in there. Not great!



I actually started my day with ice cream. I got the base made and into the fridge as soon as I could. I ended up having to make an emergency sugar run where I just bought a ten pound bag because of who I am as a person. I also nearly ran myself out of eggs later so I should have picked up more of those.

Ice Cream from Stella Parks' Bravetart
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I used up my vanilla on this recipe and so I was out for everything else. Whoops me.



Then I made Boston Creme Pie because pastry cream is important. Jade wanted something with pastry cream and originally suggested eclairs but god they're such a pain in the butt.

I made a double batch of pastry cream. I was out of vanilla so I used the vanilla pod that I still had on hand. Made it taste slightly different but still good.

Gluten free boston cream pie, adapted from the internet somewhere. 

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I had some for breakfast this morning. 

Then I had all these damn egg whites left over. Since the ice cream used 5 egg yolks and each batch of pastry cream had five egg yolks, I ended up with fifteen egg whites and I'm tired of freezing them. So I decided to do something with them. I whipped them up into a meringue and then had to go walk the dog. It ended up being two hours before I got back to them and it turns out that they didn't like it and so started to turn back into egg whites and were weirdly lumpy and definitely weren't pipable anymore. I had planned to make meringue cookies and such. 

So I made them into cakes. 

Sort of. 

One half I did an almond dacquoise with, so I added 1 1/2 cups almond flour and some sugar and dumped it into my 10 in spring form pan. The other half I did a chocolate meringue recipe and added 1/2 cup dutch process cocoa and 1/2 cup confectioners sugar, mixed it up and dumped it in a cake tin. I baked them at 250 degrees F for 1.5 hours. 

They both turned out pretty tasty! 



The almond dacquoise turned out like a traditional one, very crunchy crust. 



The chocolate one turned out like an actual cake, still moist inside. Both tasty! 

So overall, got some things done yesterday, I also ran to the post office to send two things. My plans for today are lay around and play videos games, maybe nap. I've got to do some dishes at some point, although I kept up pretty damn well yesterday. Today is going to be windy as hell and the lights have been flickering a little, which is ominous. Yay!