OH would love those pies and Possum loves jam tarts but not mince.
I made a carrot cake yesterday for the ladies at patchwork today. First time I've done a basic, simple version and they loved it. Surprised about the carrot content which they couldn't taste........ I also made a loaf shaped one for OH to take to golf and the lady he played against wants the recipe.
There's a village fete coming up this weekend with a "best decorated tart" competition. Pastry is not my thing at all. I can even mess up ready made and rolled pastry.
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All these bakes sounding delish. Carrot cake is my favourite - I use my Grannie’s recipe, which is quite simple as basically a Victoria sponge mix with the grated carrots/sultanas/walnuts added in after that. Made a coffee cake today as loved last week’s mocha cake and had a craving for coffee icing. Bought my littlest neice a baking book for Christmas- may be a curse as she will surely want to try out them all!
@Logan4, for a 4 egg sponge mix (ie. 8oz of each butter, sugar, flour) I add 8oz grated carrots, 4oz sultanas, 3oz chopped walnuts, bit of orange juice and sprinkle of mixed spice. The original recipie is for one large cake, I think, but I either bake in two halves or make cup cakes with the mix, as it is a very moist mixture. Unusually for a carrot cake, it doesn’t use oil. For the topping, I usually do a cream cheese icing with orange zest. I really recommend the cupcake version - they go mad for them in work!
I've made 5 Christmas puddings and like to keep a few for the next Christmas. But sometimes a couple of them would go mouldy. I read somewhere that if i made small holes in them and put sherry into the holes it would preserve it. Has anyone tried it and how much to put in? Thanks
No idea but the whole point of feeding brandy to a Christmas cake is to preserve as well as moisten it. Sherry has a lower alcohol percentage than brandy so not sure it would work as well. Have you thought of freezing them instead?
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I made a carrot cake yesterday for the ladies at patchwork today. First time I've done a basic, simple version and they loved it. Surprised about the carrot content which they couldn't taste........ I also made a loaf shaped one for OH to take to golf and the lady he played against wants the recipe.
There's a village fete coming up this weekend with a "best decorated tart" competition. Pastry is not my thing at all. I can even mess up ready made and rolled pastry.
Bought my littlest neice a baking book for Christmas- may be a curse as she will surely want to try out them all!
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