Hey Blog! This week I’ll tell you about the baking I’ve been doing!
We have been watching the Great British Bake Off recently. This is a very entertaining show – both serious and downright silly. I have mentioned it before, so look through back issues for more on this program. Either way, we are still moving through the episodes, which continues to inspire me to bake. This is good as it means we have pudding!
I have made two cakes in the past month. The first was a loaf-like cake and had cherries and other fruit in it – I needed to read the recipe a bit better, as it said “roll the cherries in flour first” (this stops them sinking to the bottom of the cake) and I just put them straight in – resulting in a slightly soggy bottom but a delicious cake! I think if it was judged on Bake Off standard, I would get “flavours are perfect, texture is good, but you need to get a more even distribution of filling”. Unfortunately, in our house we have to stop ourselves eating the entire thing at one sitting – otherwise there’s no cake left for tomorrow!
The second was a round and flatter cake, flavours blackberry and apple. This too was good, though perhaps not quite as elegant, but still tasted great! I hope to do even more baking of both the savoury and sweet kind soon – probably mostly puddings!
This is rather a short blog post as I have another, longer one coming tomorrow, all about my visit to a beautiful old cottage on the Cromford Canal.