What a fun week of baking. We started off with the sourdough pumpkin pie twists. So easy and so fun! The recipe called for 1 cup of active sourdough starter and 2.5 cups of AP flour. So, to convert the AP flour to fresh milled, I followed the general rule that 1 cup of AP flour = 120g of fresh milled flour. So, 2.5 x 120 =300g. Then, knowing that I am switching from AP to fresh milled, I added a bit more flour to account for the extra absorption of the fresh milled flour. Long story short, I used 350g of fresh milled flour. The liquid used in the recipe was milk. So, again, because I used fresh milled flour, I added some extra milk to give my dough the consistency I needed. In total, I ended up adding an additional 1/4c of milk to the recipe. I left the powdered sugar glaze off in order to keep the carb count down for our T1D kiddo. Also, my kids don’t care for pumpkin pie spice. I left this out and just added the pumpkin puree. I was really happy with the results because the end result wasn’t too sweet. Fantastic!
Next, we moved onto the sourdough Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal. What a blast to make! I doubled this recipe knowing that my kids would love it and want more. Again, the recipe called for AP flour so I needed to convert it to fresh milled. When doubled, I ended up using 360g + 1/4 cup fresh milled flour. 1 cup of sourdough discard was used up for this recipe. Once baked and cooled, the cereal stored really well in a glass jar. On a side note, my T1D kiddo’s blood sugar usually sky rockets with ANY cereal. He had a bowl of this cereal and literally had no blood sugar spike. Absolutely amazing…this is a game changer for him.
Lastly, we tried out a new fresh milled flour tortillas recipe. I got to use my Presa Pan again…wahoo! I was interested in this recipe because it called for dry milk powder. I also used 500g of hard white wheat berries. These tortillas were great. They rose and bubbled nicely. They were soft and flexible. I will certainly do these again.
All in all, it was a very successful baking week. On to next week!
