Saturday 1 September 2012

Curly pie and koggetjes

I decided to bake twice yesterday.

First I made koggetjes. The caramel turned out perfect. I felt rather chuffed with it. The cookie dough was fine but I must have flattened them too much before baking as they spread far too much and weren't as thick as in the recipe photo.

Second bake was Curly Pie. I made tomato, chorizo, mushroom and cheese. I didn't use all the water/oil mix in my dough and still had to add more flour.

They turned out really well though and I'll def be making them again! So easy

Friday 31 August 2012

Lists for Macmillan c/o the hairy bikers

I'm holding a Macmillan Coffee Morning on September 28th

A chance to do lots and lots of baking!! As well as raise money of course

My initial list was as follows:

Vanilla and chocolate zebra cake
Millionaire shortbread
Vanilla cheesecake
Apple and blackberry crumble cake
Danish pastries
Carrot cake
Lemon drizzle loaf
Macmillan Iced cookies
Custard creams
Coffee cake

And I probably will still do most of them but having got The Hairy Bikers Big Book of Baking I'm also tempted to try the following:
Scandinavian tea ring
Norwegian almond bars
Cardamom and lemon cookies
Amsterdam caramel cookies
Biscuit salami
Pain aux raisins

Mmmmmmmmmmm. It's going to be a fab event

Thursday 30 August 2012

A rainy day out

Not impressed with this weather at all! And no baking today unless I get home early. We're off to the Trafford Centre to watch In The Night Garden Live. H is out at Nana's so it's M, my mum and I.

If I get back early I'll see what I can rustle up.

Yesterday's baking was an apple and blackberry crumble cake. The original recipe calls for raspberries and it got great reviews when I made it a few weeks ago so I decided what looked good in the supermarket (and what was on offer!) and so I made blackberry instead of raspberry

Even my husband had some. H loved it!

Now to try and work out how to upload a photo

Wednesday 29 August 2012

Howdy

Howdy!! My first post is tiny as my phone is about to die

Update tomorrow on today's baking adventure