An old favourite

A couple of years ago I bought a 12 hole baking tray with loose bottoms and straight sides from Lakeland - it was quite expensive but it's non-stick and very heavy duty.  Haven't used it that much but today I made some mini Victoria sandwich cakes which is a novel way of presenting an old favourite.  They do look pretty when presented on a cake stand!  There is also a recipe for mini chocolate cakes that I will try some time.

PS The fancy plate is something David did in woodturning and the lovely tea towel is of Scottish wild flowers bought for me by my sister-in-law Nikki!!

More Baking!

Haven't done too much from the Bake Off book recently because I've been baking other recipes, some worked some didn't.....   All my adult life I have been ripping out recipes from magazines and newspapers and keeping them all in binders and folders with the intention of trying them sometime - one of my New Year's resolutions last January was to start cooking some of these!  So that's what I have been doing in the hope of discovering something really fantastic to put in my "favourites" folder.

Recently I made German Apple Cake from one of my Aga cook books - we have loads of Bramleys to use up this winter and it was very nice although I managed to give it my trademark Aga burnt top.  Basically it was a standard cake mix in the bottom, a thick layer of apples coated in sugar and butter, topped with a cinnamon crumble topping.  Nice served warm.

I also made Orange and Poppy Seed muffins - these were a bit different to usual muffins in that they had 200ml of yoghurt in the wet ingredients.  I felt that they were a bit plain so added some orange coloured tangy icing on top and that did the trick.

Orange and Poppy Seed Muffins