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

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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?!

I get your point, OP. You want a 'baking from scratch' group, where people weigh out ingredients and mix them themselves.
The recipes op is talking about are often bake from scratch just with a branded ingredient. The maltester and mars bar slice is just another version of tiffin, toblerone brownies are homemade brownies with toblerone melted on top. Op is just being snobby about the added ingredients not not the method

I make Malteser cupcakes and my daughter makes a Malteser cake. Both lovely and both cooked from scratch, baked in the oven, with a few Maltesers to decorate.

YABU.

CleanHankie Thank you, will have a go at that when I can next get Guinness (and there's a reason to make a cake).

trevsadick, , the citrus live in a conservatory in the winter, but you are correct, it takes a very hot year like 2018, yes, am in the UK