Posts tagged food
New cake tin
Jun 19th
I’ve been drooling over the cakes in the hummingbird bakery cook book for a while now. Last weekend was open gardens in our village to raise funds for the village hall. Twenty gardens were opened, plus there was a flower festival in the church and tea and cake served in the village hall.
There was a call for cakes so I duely obliged! I couldn’t miss this opportunity to use my new baking tin. It’s a great tin and the cakes didn’t stick at all. In the end I made a coffee ring and a blueberry ring. It was a bit of a panic on Saturday morning, trying to get them all iced (plus the 47 cupcakes). Thankfully Victoria popped round at just the right moment and finished both ring cakes. Don’t they look amazing! The servers in the hall thought the blueberry cake was too nice to cut into!
It was a great weekend especially as the weather was fantastic. Whilst the Queen was celebrating her birthday, our Saturday was given an extra edge by the red arrows who gave a little display over the village, complete with them flying over in formation and drawing hearts in the air.
Lemon meringue pie
Apr 29th
Oh boy this looks good! The pie looked so good in the Humming Bird bakery cookery book that I just had to make it.
It’s quite a faff, what with having to make and bake blind the pastry; then the lemon filling followed by the meringue. It went in the oven three times! It looks fabulous and judging by how yummy licking the bowl out was, it’s going to be really tasty too!
Yum Yum! The meringue was light & fluffy and Victoria said it was the best she’d ever tasted!
Hummingbird Bakery
Feb 16th
I’ve been lent the Hummingbird bakery cookbook and am having fun making lots of cakes from it. The marshmellow cupcakes were the first… don’t they look fun! They’re very marshmellowy with pink melted marshmellows in the middle and a vanilla frosting mixed with mini marshmellows on the top. I’d recommend starting to melt the marshmellows early on in the process… they take a while!
In a fit of peak I decided to deviate from the tried and tested family brownie recipe and see what happens. Oh my, these brownies are amazing - they’re really gooey, chewy, dense brownies. Yum! I’ve given them to Simon to thank him for his help with moving some large rocks from Ken’s garden to ours this afternoon. 
Brownies. Yum!
Oct 24th
Don’t these look fab! Our neighbour lent us his angle grinder and as we’ve finished or rather as Peter has finished with it, I’ve made some brownies to say thank-you! Yummy squishy chocolate brownies.
Advent Biscuits
Oct 18th
I can’t believe I’m prepping for Christmas already – but yes, I’ve made some advent biscuits…. They take a month to mature, so I’ve been ultra organised and have made them now, so I’ve got time to eat them in mid November, before having to make them at the end of November, in time for Christmas.
I wish I’d photographed the massive pile of biscuits on the plate – they looked great… you will have to see what they look like in the jar instead.
Have also spent this weekend on the sofa knitting more of David’s jumper. This is a real labour of love – having already knitted it once already. I’m not enjoying knitting it as much this time as I’m constantly worrying that I’m going to be hurting my finger again… I’m hoping with time that it will pass.