Baking/Cooking Bucket List
Everyone needs a good challenge in their life, am I right? I’ve gotten swept in watching all these baking and cooking shows. I swear, my favorite tends to be the Great American and Great British Baking shows. They have baked so many things I’ve never heard of, it’s kind of crazy. But that is what keeps us growing. So here is a modified version I snagged from Brown Eyed Baker.
I deleted a few things because, well… I don’t like baked beans and I’m not sure I want to make lamb… goes back to my years in FFA… But… I like the idea she had and there were even things on her list I’ve either a) never tried or b) never heard of, so I’m growing.
If I had the guts, I would take on Julia Child’s cookbook as Julie Powell did, but I just am not sure I could do that… some of those things we don’t get in rural America. If I lived in a bigger city, that might be a different story. So here goes nothing!
Yeast Goodies:
1. Focaccia bread
2. Bagels
3. English muffins
4. Challah
5. No-Knead bread
6. Ciabatta
7. Babka
8. Kaiser rolls
9. Panettone
10. Sourdough bread
11. Parker House Rolls
12. Olive oil bread
13. Baguettes
13. Croissants
14. Doughnuts
15. Yeasted Coffee Cake
16. Kouign Amann
Quick Breads:
17. Zucchini bread
18. Gingerbread
19. Shortbread
20. Irish Soda bread – 3/17/2019
21. Popovers
22. Herbed Cheese and Beer bread
Cookies/Bars:
23. Blondies
24. Macaroons
25. Snickerdoodles
26. Gingerbread cookies
27. Rugelach
28. Seven Layer Bars
29. Cannoli
30. Macarons
Spoon Desserts:
31. Chocolate Mousse
32. Souffle
33. Baked Alaska
34. Bread pudding
35. Creme Brulee
Pastries:
36. Danish
37. Strudel
38. Nutroll
39. Baklava
40. Éclairs
41. Cream puffs
42. Turnovers
43. Gougeres
Cakes:
44. Crumb Cake
45. Coffee Cake
46. Pineapple Upside Down Cake
47. Charlotte
48. Angel food cake
49. Carrot cake
50. German chocolate cake
51. Pumpkin roll
52. Black Forest Cake
53. Black bottom cupcakes
54. New York cheesecake
55. Chocolate Cheesecake
56. Bundt-style rum cake
57. Better Than Sex Cake
58. Flourless Chocolate Cake
59. Boston Cream Pie
60. Tiered Cake – 3.30.2019
Pies:
61. Lattice-topped pie
62. Cherry Pie
63. Blueberry pie
64. Pumpkin pie
65. Chocolate cream pie
66. Coconut Cream Pie
67. Pecan pie
Italian:
68. Lasagna
69. Stuffed Shells
70. Manicotti
71. Chicken parmesan
72. Fettuccine Alfredo – 3/18/2019
73. Homemade noodles
74. Pigu 4/18/2019
75. Tortellini
76. Deep dish pizza
77. Calzones
78. Stromboli
79. Frittata
Soups, Entrees, and Sides:
80. French onion soup
81. Minestrone
82. Cream of mushroom soup
83. Coq Au Vin
84. Beef stroganoff
85. Baked Ham
86. Stuffed cabbage
87. Roast chicken
88. Beef Wellington
89. Stuffing
90. Fritters
91. Turkey
Frozen Desserts:
92. Homemade ice cream
93. Sorbet
94. Semifreddo
Miscellaneous (not sure what category these go in!):
95. German Apple Pancake
96. Crepes
97. Quiche
98. Spanakopita
99. Petit Fours
100. Gingerbread House
101 and Beyond…
101. Fudge
102. Pierogi
103. Truffles
104. Sfogatelle
105. Braised Short Ribs
106. Butternut Squash anything
107. Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
108. Moussaka
109. Egg Rolls
110. Potstickers/Dumplings
111. Homemade onion rings
112. Guacamole
113. Chicken Paprikash
114. Soft Pretzels – 4.5.2019
115. Gingerbread Chocolate Chip Cookies
116. Orange Blossom Cheesecake
117. Butterscotch Buttercream
118. Lady Baltimore Cake
119. Chocolate Praline
120. Chocolate Bouchon
121. Lemon Rosemary Olive Oil Cake
122. Tuile
123. Mirror Glaze Cake – 3.29.2019
You’re no slouch at baking yourself!
There are so many things I know I or hubby would never eat, that I couldn’t do a cookbook challenge.
I keep saying I want to do no knead bread, but I haven’t yet.
Maybe this summer when the house is warm enough for the yeast to rise. I even found a recipe for no knead crockpot bread so I won’t have to heat the kitchen more!
Good luck and God bless!
That’s an impressive list! I went through and I’ve made quite a few of them, and my mom has made many of them. (Her homemade egg rolls… mmm! So good!)
Some of the ones I’ve made:
Zucchini Bread
Shortbread
Irish Soda Bread
Gingerbread cookies
Carrot Cake
Lasagna (my specialty!!)
French Onion Soup (made it for the first time this winter!)
Quiche
Fudge
Guacamole
Now I’m drooling… yum!!
I also hear you on living in a rural area and not having access to things you might get a big city grocery store. Happens to me all the time!!
Ingredients:…
3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more
1/2 teaspoon quick rising yeast
1 & 1/4 teaspoon salt
1 & 1/2 cups very warm (but not boiling) filtered water (about 100° F)
Directions:…
1.. Into a large mixing bowl, combine flour, yeast and salt.
2.. Pour in the hot water and combine well using a rubber spatula.
3.. You can use cold water, but it will take longer to rise. Using filtered/Brita? water also helps with the rising process.
4.. The dough will be sticky. Cover with plastic wrap and leave at room temperature for 3 hours, or until the dough has risen.
5.. It will have bubbles and still look a little soft and wet.
6.. Place dough on a well-floured surface.
7.. You will need to use a spatula to separate it from the bowl, as the dough will still be very sticky.
8.. Sprinkle a little more flour on the top of the dough just enough to keep it from sticking to your fingers.
9.. Give the dough a few folds, forming it into a ball.
10.. Place the formed dough ball onto a piece of parchment paper. Do NOT use wax paper for this.
11.. Lift the parchment paper and dough and place into a 4 quart slow cooker.
12.. A taller slow cooker will result in a taller bread because slow cooked breads do not rise in the same way as they would in an oven.
13.. Cover and cook on high for 2 to 3 hours, or until the internal temperature reads 190° to 200° F.
14.. Check the temperature after 90 minutes if this is the first time you are making bread in your slow cooker.
15.. You will soon learn how long it takes your slow cooker to bake the perfect loaf. Slow cooker bread makes a soft outer layer. For a browned crust, simply toss it into the broiler for a few minutes. Remove when the crust is lightly browned to your liking.
16.. Let bread cool before slicing.
Pro tip:>> Slow cookers with a lot of wear on them might bake unevenly. Simply remove the insert and rotate it 180° halfway through to get a more even bake.
Note:>> All slow cookers are a little bit different in temperature and calibration
🙂
Nicole, thank you for this post. Its very inspiring.