Any other frustrated baker?
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I kind of have a strange solution lol. I work in an area that has a lot of homeless. When I bake too many treats I bring them to work and give them to them (I've worked there for years so I know their hideaways). I also do this when well meaning relatives try to give me stuff I'm allergic to. They are always extremely grateful to received them. Not sure where you live, but perhaps that is an option? I know most food banks won't take home made goods, but if you are giving it to them directly, you bypass that issue.
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Vacuum seal, give to coworkers, find places to donate. My work (industrial kitchen) does a staff lunch once a month and I always bake a few desserts for that. My local spca frequently does bake sale fundraisers, and I love doings cupcakes and cookies to help them. My kids always have home made goodies in their school lunches, and I bake for their birthdays and class parties.
I make a killer brioche, I love it and I will fit a loaf into my calories in 2-3 days, or I will turn it into French toast for the family. My neighbors don't mind some extra goodies either.
I'm a baker by trade, I've become an expert at giving away the stuff I make.0 -
I love baking. I'm a grad student, so I tend to bring most of the batch to the department. The only problem is that there are several other bakers and most of us are reasonably health conscious, so I think people are starting to get unhappy with how often the temptations appear! :P0
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I've been spending hours looking up recipes online... knowing full well that I'll probably never get to make all that stuff because I just don't have the calories for it (well a piece, sure, but not a whole batch, and my kids usually don't eat that stuff. I don't know what planet they are from).
The struggle is real.
How do you all deal with it? I mean, I try to take advantage of Holidays to make some, but that's 3x a year and half the time other people want to make dessert...
I turn off the computer and go for a walk. Works for me.
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Oh this is so my problem!!! I love to bake and I love making up recipes--which leads to lots of tasting until it is 'right' I have actually started selling my cakes. I also make personalized cakes or cupcakes for all my friends' birthdays or any special occasion. In addition, I fuel a lot of bake sales for different causes. I can't freeze or keep what I bake in the house, so although I unfortunately taste the components, I have found that there are a lot of people more than happy to take cakes and cupcakes off my hands.0
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Eat the one slice, mail the rest to me.
Also, based on many Yogi Bear and other cartoons, I'm assured that if you warm it up and leave it on the window sill, it will vanish.0 -
Offer your baking services to your local school, church or scout troop. They always seem to be having bake sales.0
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I love baking. Maybe even more than eating the delicious treats I make but still eat way too many calories. We have a senior center in town that serves lunch 3 days a week. They can't serve what I make because of food safety laws. What they can do is leave the treats out for the people to take home. It is so much fun. They are really appreciative and I get to bake. I have been doing it for 2 months. It has eased my frustration. I have made some new friends. It has just been great!
I like the idea of searching out bake sales. The schools here have all events online.
Single serving baking saves me too. Although french pastry is too much time and trouble for 1 or 2 servings!0 -
I forgot this. I am going to bake a bunch of cookies and brownies and take them to my daughter's dorm during quiet week before exams. If you know a college student...0
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Yep. Freezer, take in to work, give to friends, bake a lot for holidays.
All of the above works.
Trash, if the results are on the south side of so-so.
I try to bake only once per week but not weeks when other family members are baking, because I often get their leftovers, too.
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I've mostly given up on baking sweets because they were a huge factor in why I was so grossly overweight before. I would make chocolate chip cookies probably 3-4 times a week and would eat something like 3-5 cookies in dough alone then would eat 3-5 baked cookies. Well there was a quick 600-1000 calories.
I've basically poured the energy I put into baking sweets into baking breads and cooking savory dishes. On the off occasion I do make something sweet, I will try to find a way to drastically reduce calories. Applesauce and Truvia baking blends are big players. The only time I basically give up and go mostly full cal is for holiday baking. It works because it confines everything evil to a 4-6 week span.
I have dessert every night still, just now it is usually non-fat flavored Greek yogurt sweetened with Truvia or chocolate bar squares. Occasionally I will miss eating cookie dough, but B&J makes a good cookie dough froyo for 180 cals a serving. That hits the spot!0 -
I've been spending hours looking up recipes online... knowing full well that I'll probably never get to make all that stuff because I just don't have the calories for it (well a piece, sure, but not a whole batch, and my kids usually don't eat that stuff. I don't know what planet they are from).
The struggle is real.
How do you all deal with it? I mean, I try to take advantage of Holidays to make some, but that's 3x a year and half the time other people want to make dessert...
You can scale back the recipes to make them one or two servings. Then this way you can enjoy what you made and not be haunted by the left overs. I can look at the recipes if you would like then readjust them to a smaller serving. I am a professional chef/ pastry chef.
What sort of pastries are you interested in making?0 -
I bake alot and find recipes that are not as much calories. Just this weekend I made protein donuts. They were red velvet protein donuts. I change up the recipes and try them out. What I did with the red velvet recipe was I subbed pistachio sugar free fat free pudding and used vanilla whey instead of chocolate whey. Per donut calories is 56, 1.5 grams of fat, 4.7 grams of carbs and 6.8 grams of protein. Not bad.
I do the same with protein cheesecake. My recipe is 228 cals per slice 3 grams of fat, 11.2 grams of carbs and 33.8 grams of protein. Not nearly the cals for real cheesecake but it tastes just as great.0 -
Open a bakery. You get to bake, you get to focus your energy on learning something new (assuming you haven't owned your own business), and you probably won't have as much desire to eat the food if you are doing it for work rather than for your own consumption.0
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I do a cheat night once a week. My family goes out to eat and then I bake a small batch of cookies or brownies for us to enjoy that evening only. My 4 year old is my sous chef!
I've been wanting to make a beautiful cake that I saw in a magazine. I'll wait and make it for Easter and let everyone in my extended family enjoy it. I'll have a small piece and I'll get the fun of the process of making it.0 -
I've been spending hours looking up recipes online... knowing full well that I'll probably never get to make all that stuff because I just don't have the calories for it (well a piece, sure, but not a whole batch, and my kids usually don't eat that stuff. I don't know what planet they are from).
The struggle is real.
How do you all deal with it? I mean, I try to take advantage of Holidays to make some, but that's 3x a year and half the time other people want to make dessert...
You can scale back the recipes to make them one or two servings. Then this way you can enjoy what you made and not be haunted by the left overs. I can look at the recipes if you would like then readjust them to a smaller serving. I am a professional chef/ pastry chef.
What sort of pastries are you interested in making?
Well my list includes anything from Flan patissier to tarts, Far Breton, those tasty brioches with pastry cream, eclairs... It's just too much work to make a couple servings most of the time (when you can even scale it down), although there are website that give recipes for small servings (Dessert for Two), and it's been helpful.
I do NOT have the skills to sell my stuff though. I'm pretty good at making horrible looking things that taste good though...0 -
I love to bake, but my work environment is either all or nothing when it comes to eating sweets. I bought my team (of 10 guys) a really tasty apple crumb cake, and I think 2 people ate it. So aggravated at them for their lake of cake eating. I refused to make them pie for today.
About the most baking I do now is breakfast muffins, and things of that nature that I can divvy up, and freeze portions of it. 0 -
For the eclairs, I know you can make the pate a choux pipe and bake the shell, then safely freeze the unused unfilled portions. Flan you can make the custard take what you need and freeze the rest as well. Most of the items can be safely made then frozen and assembled later on.0
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WinoGelato wrote: »Open a bakery. You get to bake, you get to focus your energy on learning something new (assuming you haven't owned your own business), and you probably won't have as much desire to eat the food if you are doing it for work rather than for your own consumption.
Not a bad idea. My assistant and her family have a catering business, so she brings baked goods she's trying out to work all the time. It seems that a catering business can be a good outlet for baking desires.0 -
Try the Protein Treats channel on Youtube. They are all high protein, no sugar, and taste amazing.0
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mamaChristine wrote: »Try the Protein Treats channel on Youtube. They are all high protein, no sugar, and taste amazing.
Well I love the protein cheesecake I made last week and planning to make more this week.0 -
I've been spending hours looking up recipes online... knowing full well that I'll probably never get to make all that stuff because I just don't have the calories for it (well a piece, sure, but not a whole batch, and my kids usually don't eat that stuff. I don't know what planet they are from).
The struggle is real.
How do you all deal with it? I mean, I try to take advantage of Holidays to make some, but that's 3x a year and half the time other people want to make dessert...
You can scale back the recipes to make them one or two servings. Then this way you can enjoy what you made and not be haunted by the left overs. I can look at the recipes if you would like then readjust them to a smaller serving. I am a professional chef/ pastry chef.
What sort of pastries are you interested in making?
Well my list includes anything from Flan patissier to tarts, Far Breton, those tasty brioches with pastry cream, eclairs... It's just too much work to make a couple servings most of the time (when you can even scale it down), although there are website that give recipes for small servings (Dessert for Two), and it's been helpful.
I do NOT have the skills to sell my stuff though. I'm pretty good at making horrible looking things that taste good though...
*snort*
That's me as well. Shame having a bake sale takes so long to set up - people don't care if the goodies are wonky-looking at those.0 -
I love to bake too and can easily eat most of what I bake, so I can relate! Everything in moderation, though, right? So I try to bake things that are less bad more often and the worst offenders (like pound cake, butter cookies) I bake more for special occasions, especially when I know there will be others to share with. Also, I have found I will increase my exercise to offset those extra calories, it's worth it!0
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This thread just convinced me to make a caprese tart for dinner tonight. We'll see how it turns out, first time making puff pastry dough from scratch..0
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Haha, VERY bad idea! I loved to bake so started a cake business. I realised within a year that it was all about the business and very little about the baking and decorating. If you just enjoy the baking, stick to that!lemurcat12 wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »Open a bakery. You get to bake, you get to focus your energy on learning something new (assuming you haven't owned your own business), and you probably won't have as much desire to eat the food if you are doing it for work rather than for your own consumption.
Not a bad idea. My assistant and her family have a catering business, so she brings baked goods she's trying out to work all the time. It seems that a catering business can be a good outlet for baking desires.
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I usually find a recipe that looks fun to make, keep the amount of the finished product that I want, and dump the rest on my coworkers. They love when I bring them stuff, and I love not having it go to waste. Everybody wins!0
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mamaChristine wrote: »Try the Protein Treats channel on Youtube. They are all high protein, no sugar, and taste amazing.
Well I love the protein cheesecake I made last week and planning to make more this week.
Excellent! Melanie does a great job coming up with tasty ideas. 0 -
mamaChristine wrote: »mamaChristine wrote: »Try the Protein Treats channel on Youtube. They are all high protein, no sugar, and taste amazing.
Well I love the protein cheesecake I made last week and planning to make more this week.
Excellent! Melanie does a great job coming up with tasty ideas.
I didn't get it there, honestly I just dislike video recipes (except the super easy/no talk kind like 'tasty') so I didn't watch, lol.0 -
mamaChristine wrote: »mamaChristine wrote: »Try the Protein Treats channel on Youtube. They are all high protein, no sugar, and taste amazing.
Well I love the protein cheesecake I made last week and planning to make more this week.
Excellent! Melanie does a great job coming up with tasty ideas.
I didn't get it there, honestly I just dislike video recipes (except the super easy/no talk kind like 'tasty') so I didn't watch, lol.
Check out bitsyrecipes.com. Most of them are reposted there in print form. 0
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