Salt dough where did I go wrong?!

[smurfette]

Tried to make a salt dough hand print with mindee today and it puffed up in the oven the handprint disappeared!.. I used plain flour and baked at 200 degrees anybody tell me where I went wrong? Thanks!

[Tealady]

Perhaps you kneaded it too much and got to much air in it.

[Twinkles]

You had the oven too hot. It does better if you bake it long and low almost like a meringue.

[AliceK]

200 deg what? My oven is electric and I bake mine at 80 deg. A really cool oven.
Could it be that?

xxx

[Chatterbox Childcare]

You cooked it!!!

Turn your oven down to the lowest setting (maybe 20 degrees) and leave it for about 12 hours

[Monkey26]

I bake mine on 100 for 3-5 hours... i think your oven way too high x

[Helen Dempster]

deffo too hot, but don't worry as it happens to the best of us (the best of us being me!) LOL. I was baking mine in the oven on a low heat, all going perfectly well...until I needed to cook lunch and forgot the salt dough was in there! And it did exactly as yours has done. Soooooooo annoying though, as it looked lovely before I ruined it. Hey ho...another learning curve.

[smurfette]

Thanks all that's what I suspected plus prob did knead too much alright! Shame it did look good and Mindee finished today so that's that. Never mind learning curve!

Here is the link .. I did read it right?! http://kids.creativity-portal.com/d/...lt.dough.shtml

[curlywurly]

I did exactly the same thing. Very annoying, but at least we will know for next time!!!!

[crazyhazy]

the temp in the recipe is in fahrenheit whereas you've done it at 200 celcius, should only be about 90c

[blue bear]

Here is the link .. I did read it right?! http://kids.creativity-portal.com/d/...lt.dough.shtml[/QUOTE]


It says 200F, I presume you used 200C?

[smurfette]

Ha ha that would be it!! Duh!! Thanks guys xx

[IndigoMoon]

Oops! I would have probably done the same thing so don't feel bad. Next year you will make fab ones!

[Mummits]

Mine all puffed up last year. Luckily they were made by me for the kids to paint so I could quietly bin them and nobody was any the wiser!