Fortnight ending 15th March 2014

Two weeks worth again today - had a busy weekend last weekend visiting Killerton and Dawlish - lovely family weekend - so catching up with the blog today :-)

I'll start with the previous week ending 8th March first - and that week started mid week with a lovely batch of Dinosaur cookies - I was helped with these by my grandson Max aged 3, then I went on to make a granary loaf, some oat and raisin cookies, banana and sultana muffins, a lemon meringue pie, some cherry bakewell cupcakes and another granary loaf.

Dinosaur cookies :-)

First loaf, granary

Oat and raisin cookies

Banana and sultana muffins

Cherry Bakewell cupcakes

Lemon meringue pie - all homemade apart from the pastry which I confess to using frozen pastry ;-)

and another granary loaf to finish the first week

Now to this week - I started the week by baking some banana and sultana muffins aided and abetted by my grandson Max, then back home to Devon to make another batch of cherry bakewell cupcakes, this time with a hidden jam centre, then a gesture for St Patrick's day - some vanilla cupcakes with an attempt at a shamrock on the top, and some peanut butter and white chocolate chip cookies.

First up the muffins made with Max's help

Granary loaf

Cherry bakewell cupcakes plus the hidden jam centre

St Patrick's Day :-)

And finally the peanut butter and white chocolate chip cookies

That's all for this week folks, off to cook a breakfast brunch now....

Week ending 1st March 2014

Another week and yet more baking, looks like this week has been all about the bread .... but I also made a lovely boiled fruit cake, some more banana and sultana muffins and a batch of cupcakes I called Neapolitan.

First to start the week last Sunday I made a white loaf, followed by a lovely recipe from Mary Berry's Baking Bible for a boiled fruit cake - this was beautifully moist and would definitely make this again, would even make a lovely Christmas cake I think, next were the banana and sultana muffins, and another white loaf, then the Neapolitan cupcakes, and then finally a granary loaf.

First of the loaves 

Second white loaf

The lovely yummy fruit cake plus a small slice - its packed with fruit as you can see :-)

The Neapolitan cupcakes - vanilla in the cupcake topped with chocolate buttercream (with real chocolate in) and that was then topped with strawberry flavour buttercream and finally topped with a coupe of white chocolate buttons 

Banana and sultana muffins topped with sugar nibs

And last bake for this week was a granary loaf - it went very well with the chilli I had made for our evening meal - the loaves all courtesy of Jo Wheatley's book A Passion for Baking