In college, I was part of Baldwin food CO-OP, making lovely cinnamon rolls for Sunday Brunch - for 90. They came out of the oven, they were stunning - gorgeous even, our first try. Then a taste -- turns out subbing baking soda for baking powder was NOT a good idea. 100+ gorgeous cinnamon rolls - now hockey pucks and frisbees for the trash. SO sad. Ironically, I was on bread duty with another bread newbie for winter term. We used nutritional yeast in our first batch. No rise, trash it went. We used a muffin recipe for our second batch thinking to outsmart the yeast gods - doesn't actually cook all the way through before burning outside, finally, my partner is bread disaster had to sub out one week for someone else. Who actually had made bread before. It was fun, and divine, and I started baking bread as a way to study. 10 min of mix/knead followed by 50 min of rise/study. Worked well. Also, I use mini chop chips when I put them in a bundt. add 1/2 bag to full batter, pour half in pan, then add rest of bag to last half batter and pour on top.

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