It’s National Baking Week did you know? From Monday 14th – 20th October 2013 we can embrace the inner baker in us, get flouring the sides and kneading dough for that is what is expected of us! With programmes like the Great British Bake Off being so super popular at the moment I’m sure it won’t take a lot of encouragement for lots of us and I am no exception! NOT that I am a particularly skilled kitchen dweller I hasten to add. My baking skills in the past have often been of very dubious quality and sometimes not even edible! Doesn’t mean I don’t want to give it a go though!
So we did!
With our new Mason Cash mixing bowl don’t you know! The very same brand they use on the Great British Bake Off indeed! I might not be as perfect as perfect Ruby in the kitchen but I can still have the same perfect bowls! They are lovely and I do like to have nice things in the kitchen! This is a typical mason cash bowl, thick and durable while being vintage in appearance! I love the colour and it was great for using too!
I got mine from the Imperial War Museum Shop along with a wartime recipe book! I looked at the wartime recipes and with tripe and dumplings being a bit of a theme decided it would be one for another time. There are also lots of yummy sounding ration puddings too and I will try them but for now I decided to stick to some fairy cakes – something within my capabilities and which wouldn’t disappoint Florence too much when they came out of the oven!
I used my Mum’s recipe of 4/4/4/2 – 4oz Caster Sugar, 4oz Self Raising Flour, 4oz Slightly Salted Butter and 2 Eggs. I added to it, to give it my own twist, 2 tbsp of Soured Cream and 2tbsp of Coco Powder. Once I’d made the mixture and popped it in the cases we added a little square of chocolate to the middle of each one. While they cooked I made icing using a whole pack of Cream Cheese mixed with Icing Sugar which I did by eye and taste. I then melted the rest of the bar of chocolate used for the squares in the cakes and added it to the icing mixture. We spread it all over the cooled cakes and decorated with sprinkles!
Not TOO bad for me even if I do say so myself!
We have also been sent some rather impressive cookie cutters to make 3D cookies from outer space! The Science Museum is one of our absolute fave days out and their gift shop, where the cookie cutters come from, is just brilliant! Expect some 3D space buggy cookies coming from us soon!
I have not been paid to write this post but I was sent the mixing bowl and recipe book for the purpose of review.
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