In my previous post, I mentioned making a sandwich with the crock pot chicken. Well, I did it, so here are the photos!
I had difficulty figuring out which photo I liked better. In the first one, the cheese looks better, but in the second, the bread looks better! :P
Not too long ago, I had seen a recipe for banana bread using a bread machine. I just tried it out today.
It was't really very good, but it was not too bad either.
After the quick bread cycle on my machine, the cake was not done at all. My toothpick came out coated with soggy batter. So I manually added another 20 minutes of baking time. After that, the toothpick came out clean, but the top of the cake resembled a steamed kuih rather than a baked cake. At first I thought I would be getting a pudding instead of a cake!
However, after leaving it to cool a bit and then turning it out, the top looked better. More like a real cake, I would say.
I used walnuts, since I had some on hand for my usual bread recipes.
The cake was quite dense. I don't quite understand why they called for bread flour, yet did not use any yeast. The cake was not too sweet, maybe because I had reduced the amount of sugar. Because it was not sweet, I guess it tasted more like bread. But it did not have the texture of bread. It also did not have the fluffy texture of cake... I think that the interior was more like a dense cake, but the exterior, near the crust, felt more like bread.
In any case, it is edible enough, so it shall be my breakfast for the next few days. I might toast the slices and see whether it makes it taste better!
Another thing I didn't get was why they needed to use the quick bread setting. The setting has resting time for the dough to rise, but without yeast, I don't think that is needed. Maybe their bread machine doesn't have any other settings besides bread? For mine, I could have just used a "stir" setting, followed by a "bake" one (I already know the baking time for the "quick bread" setting, because it is the setting I normally use). I thought of doing that, but decided against it because I was afraid it would make the recipe fail.
I don't think I will be making this again... unless if I substitute the baking powder with yeast to make the texture like normal bread. If I want cake, my existing banana cake recipe is better!
I had difficulty figuring out which photo I liked better. In the first one, the cheese looks better, but in the second, the bread looks better! :P
Not too long ago, I had seen a recipe for banana bread using a bread machine. I just tried it out today.
It was't really very good, but it was not too bad either.
After the quick bread cycle on my machine, the cake was not done at all. My toothpick came out coated with soggy batter. So I manually added another 20 minutes of baking time. After that, the toothpick came out clean, but the top of the cake resembled a steamed kuih rather than a baked cake. At first I thought I would be getting a pudding instead of a cake!
However, after leaving it to cool a bit and then turning it out, the top looked better. More like a real cake, I would say.
I used walnuts, since I had some on hand for my usual bread recipes.
The cake was quite dense. I don't quite understand why they called for bread flour, yet did not use any yeast. The cake was not too sweet, maybe because I had reduced the amount of sugar. Because it was not sweet, I guess it tasted more like bread. But it did not have the texture of bread. It also did not have the fluffy texture of cake... I think that the interior was more like a dense cake, but the exterior, near the crust, felt more like bread.
In any case, it is edible enough, so it shall be my breakfast for the next few days. I might toast the slices and see whether it makes it taste better!
Another thing I didn't get was why they needed to use the quick bread setting. The setting has resting time for the dough to rise, but without yeast, I don't think that is needed. Maybe their bread machine doesn't have any other settings besides bread? For mine, I could have just used a "stir" setting, followed by a "bake" one (I already know the baking time for the "quick bread" setting, because it is the setting I normally use). I thought of doing that, but decided against it because I was afraid it would make the recipe fail.
I don't think I will be making this again... unless if I substitute the baking powder with yeast to make the texture like normal bread. If I want cake, my existing banana cake recipe is better!
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