Baking Stuff.

As you can probably tell from the rather late blog, I'm not yet back in the groove. I'm working on it, though - as on what feels like a gazillion of other things. Plus, there's some baking going on, because obviously the new oven has to be tested. Thoroughly.

I've made, for the first time in my life, "Ofennudeln" - which is either a dessert or a sweet main dish, consisting of a yeast dough either unfilled and eaten with compote or apple sauce or vanilla custard, or filled with something - such as sweetened Quark and plum jam. These will definitely happen again - I really liked them. (One of the reasons why I had to make a yeast dough: The oven has a shiny programme for quality raising time for the dough.)



The latest experiment, though, was not so successful. I've been pondering trying out bean brownies for a good long while now, and I finally got around to doing this. The main reason this time was weird beans that stayed dry and unpleasant on the inside even after being boiled for a good long time... so I decided to puree them and turn them into bean brownies. The second reason? A new variation on the topic of baking frame - a silicone band with magnets that latches onto the baking sheet in almost any shape.

Well.



The baking band works very well. The bean dough recipe also results in something edible, though the Most Patient Husband is really not impressed with the stuff, and I would file it under "yes, edible, but not happening again". The texture is neither properly cake-like nor properly brownie-like; I can definitely taste the beans, and it's not very chocolatey. I don't find the texture unpleasant, but it's unexpected and somehow not fitting the idea of brownies.

So that is not going into the stack of recipes that will be made again...