Happy Friday! To start the weekend, here’s a no-oil, no-butter recipe for Chocolate Chip Apple Bread from Dupont Teflon’s magazine, Carefree Cooking.
It tasted great, and might taste even better to you if you make it in a free ProBake loaf pan courtesy of DuPont Teflon.
Just leave a comment telling me your least favorite step in baking, and you will be entered into a random drawing for a scratch resistant, Teflon coated ProBake loaf pan and a very durable, non-buckling, Teflon coated Pro-Bake cookie sheet. I plan on drawing a winner Monday morning, so leave your comment before 6:30 AM CST Monday morning.
And read on to hear more about my experience with the bread and the bakeware…..
The quick bread was convenient. I made it all in one bowl and didn’t bother to grease or line the ProBake loaf pan since the point of the Teflon coating is to keep things from sticking. The bread baked very evenly, had a dense crust, and a surprisingly pleasing texture despite the lack of fat.
The chocolate chips did stick a bit, so I’d advise you to add a thin coat of cooking spray to the bottom of the pan if baking something with chips. Other than that, the loaf pan worked well and I’m confident most loaves, especially ones made with oil, will slide right out.
The ProBake cookie sheet was even better. I used it to roast a batch of potatoes at 450F. The potatoes didn’t stick and there was no buckling, which is a problem I’ve been having with my other baking sheets as of late – some of which are more expensive than ProBake.
ProBake can be found at major retailers and on Amazon. Or if you’re lucky, in a box on your front door! Just leave that comment telling me something you do NOT like about baking….particularly, a step. Mine would be measuring and mixing dry ingredients because I always make a mess.
If you missed the recipe link, here it is again — Chocolate Chip Apple Bread.
Disclosure: This is not a paid advertisement, but I did receive a free loaf pan and cookie sheet to sample.
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My least favorite step is cleaning up afterwards.
My least favorite thing about baking is waiting for the item to be done!! I am impatient and want to eat my treats right away
Definitely the clean up afterwards!!
Sifting flour. I avoid this whenever possible. I’m not even sure why – I guess I’m just messy with it so it becomes a hassle!
I hate greasing cake tins!
I hate lining square baking pans with foil. I’m too OCD making it fit in perfectly.
My least favorite part is trying to not to eat the raw cookie dough because I know its bad for you!
My least favorite part is waiting for ingredients to come to room temperature. I always forget about that and then I’m trying to place the butter close to the radiator so that it’ll soften more quickly.
My least favorite step is cleaning up.
I really don’t like sifting. At all.
cleaning up Washing all bowls, measuring cups, measuring spoons. etc..
I really hate chopping chocolate!
Cleaning up!
I would say my least favorite thing is when the baked item will not come out of the pan-at all. I made macaroons in a mini muffin pan so they were cute, bite sized and so I would not have to shape each one. I sprayed the pay, but it did not matter. I could not get a single one out of the pan-argh!
I’m ‘okay’ with washing the dishes, even though I don’t have a dishwasher. Cleaning up flour is much more annoying, because it gets everywhere. But I would have to say that my absolute least favorite task is cleaning off any chocolate that gets on my clothes. I always forget to put on an apron or an old shirt
My least favorite step is removing the cake or brownies from the pan. I know they’ll always come out because I always use parchment, but there’s always that irrational fear that it’ll break and get destroyed when I try to take it out!
yep, cleaning.
I am terrible at cutting bars, I really hate trying to make my (baking) results look pretty!
My least favorite part is waiting for the ingredients to come to room temperature. I have no patience.
I don’t like mixing things in separate bowls. But I guess that is probably because I don’t want to clean them. ha ha.
I hate having to roll anything out on the counter or using my hands. For some reason, I don’t like the feel of flour on my hands!
My least favorite step is greasing the pans! I make such a mess! I also don’t like cleaning up the mess because I usually get flour everywhere!
I hate measuring cocoa powder and confectioners’ sugar (because I always make a mess).
My least favorite step is sifting flour, which I NEVER
do.
I hate sifting flour. I always make a mess.
My least favoriate part is having to find an oven to use (I am a university student living in the dorms).
Losing the weight from eating the baked goodness…if that doesn’t count then cleaning up afterwards
sifting. And worrying about whether that new recipe I am trying will turn out just the way it should.
I don’t like pulling things out of the pantry and unloading the dishwasher! Neither is too bad, but in comparison to my pleasure of the other steps!
My least favorite step is sifting.
My least favorite is sifting the flour.
I wash the dishes in between while I’m baking so I
don’t have a big mess afterwards.
My least favorite step in baking is waiting for the baked good to cool. I tend to simply try to scrape off my baked good ASAP, which leads to crumbing and sticking.
Taking it out of a pan when there’s a good possibility it might stick. My last bundt cake broke in half. Not even PAM helped me.
My least favorite step in baking is when I have to cream or beat something for a long period of time as I only have a hand mixer.
Waiting for a cake to cool before frosting!
PS–Love your website.
Cleaning up is my least favorite thing to do in the kitchen.
I LOATHE cleanup………LOVE to bake.
I guess I would have to go along with what many others are saying…and that is the cleanup. When I was still living at home I would bake something, make a terrible mess, and leave it to my grandma to clean up. I don’t think she minded though and she would get me back when it came time for canning. She didn’t make me clean up but I did have to help and that was some hot work.
Remembering to take butter out of the fridge/freezer to soften. I hate it when instructions say “softened butter”!
I don’t like having to do all the chopping/cutting of ingredients. I will clean up for you and grease your pans any day if you’ll chop/cut for me!!
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Thanks for the opportunity to see that box at my door
I hate greasing the pans. More than that, I hate quieting that little voice in my head that tells me it might be OK if I skip it….
Cleaning up is my least favorite step
my least favorite part is the clean-up
I am really impatient and hate when I forget to put the butter out to soften or ingredients to get to room temperature!
My least favorite thing to do is take the baked item out of the pan it’s in after it is cooled! I always get very nervous about will it or won’t it stick to the bottom? I take it very personally when it won’t come out after all that hard work making it ! : ) LOL!
Cleaning up afterwards is a major chore.
What I do NOT like about baking is cleaning up afterward!
The clean up is the worst!!
Waiting for the goodies to cool before eating them!
I hate when you put in all the effort of making and them it doesn’t come out good!
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