To think this kind of baking, isn't really baking?

[user8558]

I'm a member of a baking group on FB. Where people take photos of what they've baked that day. That's all. It's nice.

But over half of these creations are based on some other kind of baked good/biscuit/chocolate/confectionery.

Mars bar and Malteser slice, Biscoff and Rolo cheesecake, chocolate orange and Toblerone brownies.

Maybe I'm just hangry.

But it's a bit annoying. Why is everyones baking using branded goods that already exist?!

[NuffSaidSam]

I think you're hangry. Or the lockdown has driven you mad.

This is so, so, so not something to get even remotely bothered about!

[Ifailed]

if it doesn't involve an oven, then it's not baking, likewise not cooking if no heat is involved. Assembly?

[LemonadeAndDaisyChains]

I thought you were going to say warming up shop bought or something!
Biscoff or malteser slices or whatever is definitely baking.
Maybe you're hangry, have some Rolo cheesecake

[Picklypickles]

As long as there's no fruit in it any cake is good cake as far as I'm concerned!

[namesnames]

Baking involves an oven, no matter what the ingredients.

[CoRhona]

It's just a description of flavour, like Oreo cheesecake.

You are definitely BU

[Samtsirch]

If they enjoy it then I don’t see the problem.
You are a member of the group, so you can demonstrate your idea of baking to them if you want to.

[slashlover]

It's called gatekeeping. It's only real baking if OP says it is.

[Louiselouie0890]

Maybe you should have a kit kat and take a break

[recycledteenager24]

heck i want some chocolate fudge cake now , but haven't got any

[TellMeItsNotTrue]

So chocolate brownies would be considered baking, because you bake them... But chocolate orange brownies... Aren't? 🧐

[DippyAvocado]

I like to watch Tasty videos on Facebook. Quite a lot of their cake recipes do seem to be based on "a box of yellow cake mix", "a box of white cake mix" or "a packet of Brownies". I don't think of packet mixes as proper baking but you still have to mix them together and cook them in the oven so I'm just being a pedant. They usually look pretty yummy anyway!

[SuckingDieselFella]

Sounds like a traybakes group.

Even better than real baking.

[BashStreetKid]

Why is everyones baking using branded goods that already exist?!

I dunno. Ask them, not us.

[Oncewasblueandyellowtwo]

My friend made a two tier cake from scratch for my DCs birthdays.
I was really impressed that she even made buttercream from scratch for it too. Is that kind of what you mean?
It's a great skill to have.

[ouch321]

I made Bessy Crocket Devil's Food Cake recently using their pre mix and topped it with their Choc Fudge icing.

It was cheating but bloomin heck it was delicious.

[NoIDontWatchLoveIsland]

I've got a friend who goes on about love of baking.

They don't bake... they construct.

Eg a dessert involving baking slices of ready made pastry and layering with cream and fruit. If they made the pastry themselves, ok. But its jus-rol!

[BarbaraofSeville]

You need an oven for brownies or biscuits, that's baking.

Anyway, most people would join a baking group because they want to produce nice sweet things to eat, rather than audition for some shitey show off TV programme.

I wouldn't trust anyone who takes exception to cheesecake, no matter what it's decorated with.

[NoIDontWatchLoveIsland]

Onewasblueandyellow

Are you kidding. Buttercream is icing sugar mixed with butter. That's it. It's not complex and requires elbow grease if you haven't a mixer but skill? No.

[cdtaylornats]

Baking involves an oven, no matter what the ingredients

No-bake cheesecake
Microwave sponge
Baked Alaska using a blowtorch

[Zaphodsotherhead]

The packet mixes that get me are the ones like the scone mix ' 'just add fat and milk!' So, it's a bag of flour then, basically.

[Lovemusic33]

Brownies are baked 🤔 does the fact they contain toblerone make them not viable?

I think you need to take a chill pill OP, baking is meant to be fun.

[SecretSpAD]

Toblerone brownies? OMG. 😍

[NearlyGranny]

I know what you mean, OP. There's a feeling that baking should be from scratch that I share. It's more satisfying, somehow. I make an exception for chocolate chips. Cake mixes in boxes are an expensive anathema and quite unnecessary.

I do shortcrust pastry in a flash in a food processor but confess to buying JusRol puff, because puff is too hard! I might revisit that as partial lockdown stretches on and I need another challenge!

[Bubbletrouble43]

Toblerone brownies sound amazing... ( rushes off to Google recipe) yabu