Friday, 20 June 2014

Weeks ending 20th June 2014

This will be my last blog until August as I won't have much time for baking or blogging for a few weeks due to the forthcoming wedding of my son and his lovely fiancĂ© this weekend, Wimbledon Centre Court tickets the following week, and then a >3 week holiday to Cuba - phew exhausting just writing it all down lol. 

I also intend to experiment more with savoury dishes in the future too. 


So now to catch up with the last month or so's baking - here goes....

Traditional white loaf






Banana loaf with added sultanas

Traditional white loaf but this time as 1lb loaf and four mini loaves


One mini loaf bacon sarnie :-D

                                                 

New recipe for lemon meringue cupcakes



A Mary Berry banana loaf


Lisa Faulkner banana loaf made with my young grandsons help in his mummy's kitchen


Granary loaf


Yet another fruit cake 


Oat and raisin cookies


White loaf


Three chocolates cupcakes, plain, milk & white in there somewhere!



A vanilla sponge from Jo Wheatley's A Passion for Baking - just to use up the buttercream from the cupcakes above you understand ;-)



And another white loaf


Hmm I seem to have made even more bread... yet another white loaf - but I have to say its a delicious recipe



Needed a new 2lb loaf tin hence this banana cake looks a little squashed as the dimensions are not the same as my old tin




The swiss roll rose a lot and was awkward to roll but it tasted divine with fresh cream and a side serving of fresh strawberries


Granary loaf


Ooops another new tin, this time to make mini loaves (this tin makes 12 each equivalent to a muffin size cupcake, my other mini loaf tin makes eight larger ones). I wouldn't use cupcake cases another time though, just put the mixture straight in the greased tins as it has loose bottoms, and use plenty of cake release spray - a brilliant invention.....


Granary loaf


White loaf


Vanilla sponge filled with strawberry jam


Granary loaf


Ditto


A new low sugar option for oat and raisin cookies - not tried and tested yet..... could be time for coffee now???



Finally for now my first attempt at a CHOCOLATE giant cupcake - chocolate cake covered in white chocolate buttercream and decorated with Pebbles and Giant Buttons