Well my car said it was MINUS 5C this morning! Good enough reason to get the oven on this pm and do some baking!
A friend asked me to make a Lemon Drizzle cake for her husband so did that this pm- the downside to my cake baking endeavours is the delicious smells that arise from the oven! Its just not fair when my (ever expanding) waistline means I should resist all cakes/biscuits/baked deliciousness. Most of the time I try(briefly!) and fail!!
Lemon drizzle cake is one of my favourites-in fact I won 1st prize last summer in our local village fete cake competition with my Lemon drizzle! I am very proud of this!
But the smells coming out the oven were so yummy today- the cake nearly got devoured- only the fact that I had only bought enough lemons for one cake, stopped me devouring a huge slab!
See, cold weather is not conducive to dieting- its makes my body cry out for yummy, gooey, fat laden and warming treats of the baked variety! Preferably with lemon or chocolate involved!
Friday, 3 February 2012
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Here is the finished article!
More cake tomorrow as its my baking day for the Toddler group I run on a Thurs/Fri!
Lemon thumbprint cookies I think!!
Let the cake baking commence!
I love baking and thought it was time to record some of my baking exploits! Mostly (but not all) successful!
Today is a special day- I am baking my little boy's birthday cake. He is 5 tomorrow and has been saying for weeks he wants a Lightning mcQueen cake- no pressure then!! He also wants to take cupcake sin for his class tomorrow- luckily his school is small and there are only 13 in his class plus the teacher and assistant so I am hoping to create something a bit special as its only a few cakes!
I cannot draw for toffee- seriously! My Art teacher at school used to say very pleasant things about my artistic attempts at school- I am sure she just couldn't bear to be brutally honest about how awful I was! Either that or she was blind!
Luckily with cakes I seem to be able to pull it out the bag and somehow it works!
Anyway- watch this space for photos!
Today is a special day- I am baking my little boy's birthday cake. He is 5 tomorrow and has been saying for weeks he wants a Lightning mcQueen cake- no pressure then!! He also wants to take cupcake sin for his class tomorrow- luckily his school is small and there are only 13 in his class plus the teacher and assistant so I am hoping to create something a bit special as its only a few cakes!
I cannot draw for toffee- seriously! My Art teacher at school used to say very pleasant things about my artistic attempts at school- I am sure she just couldn't bear to be brutally honest about how awful I was! Either that or she was blind!
Luckily with cakes I seem to be able to pull it out the bag and somehow it works!
Anyway- watch this space for photos!
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