Monday 19 November 2012

Free Choice:

Baking today, I am feeling a bit stuffed now, I only had one of the buns that I made but I feel as if the sugar and other ingredients are coating me, including my throat!

I finished baking the christmas cake, happy with it and now it is all wrapped up and held together with one of my new christmas washi tapes :)



I also made a recipe for a Christmas Wreath from The Great British Bake Off book. I didn't have the right size tins so adapted and so ended up with some individual buns as well as the wreath. Absolutely delicious, it is a brioche dough mixed with sultanas (which I might have steeped in amaretto ;) ) chopped nuts, marzipan and orange zest. You then make orange curd and pipe it into the middle. That was a faff too far and next time I will cut them in half and spread the curd. But they were delicious :) 


5 comments:

  1. Jenni I can almost smell all your cooking :) My puddings are in cook pots cooking for 13hrs but not using a lot of electricity :) Like the sound of the Christmas wreath.off to write Christmas cards tonight!!

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  2. looks lovely, like the use of the christmas washi tape :)

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  3. Oh wow that does look good. xxx

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  4. These cakes look Wonderful - congratulations!

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  5. Well done you! I was all organised last year as went awy Dec 5th for two weeks, but I feel I may be slipping behind this year, esp with you studious types! X

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