Challah Rolls

I can't believe that after giving up on my blog, I have 7 followers! I feel encouraged to start again. It's much more fun writing when other people read it.

I have made the challah rolls over a year ago and never blogged about them. Maybe they were the reason I gave up with the recipes. Having tried challah before, I was expecting some chewy soft and sweet addictively delicious bread.

They looked promising when they came out of the oven (if I ignored some slightly burnt edges). What I got was oily weird taste dry bread. There were so many of them, I didn't quite know what to do with them. I decided to take some to my grandma (who loves all things bread and doesn't like all things sweet). She kept asking me to make them months later because she loved them. I had to tell her I probably wouldn't be doing a second run ever again as the effort and time it took to make them was just not worth it.

My husband didn't mind them too much. I disliked them more than anyone.

Ratings

Husband: 3½ /5

Wife: 2 /5

Banana Bread

Banana bread with chocolate chips and walnuts

The first time I made this has been a few months ago. I have made it several times since then (but without walnuts, the way my husband preferred).

The first time, the outside started to brown too soon while the centre was still uncooked. I ended up taking it out with the inside still wet. This did not make a big difference to my husband who devoured it.

Every time my bananas started to overripe, I would make this banana bread, putting the oven temperature a little lower than recommended. This let the centre cook properly without burning the outside.

What came out was a perfectly moist cake with mouth-melting chocolate chips. I have since looked through other recipes of banana cakes and have noted that none use lemon juice and orange rind. In my opinion, that's what gives this recipe that extra subtle flavour. 

After trying several more recipes from the book, my husband still says that this is the only recipe that was really successful.

Ratings

Husband: 4½ /5

Wife: 4½ /5