The cake was then covered in icing and decorated with pale yellow flowers. I have to say not my best icing effort but the cake did turn out nice, all the spare cakes got eaten in less than a day, well I had to test them to make sure they were okay.
Monday, 10 January 2011
Something for the weekend
over the Christmas period I have been salivating browsing through the hundreds of books on baking that are littering stacked neatly in my house, one that caught my eye was a lemon poppy seed cake. The recipe called for a 4 inch cake tin (!?!), not something readily available so I improvised and used some 5 inch tart tins which worked out really well.There was enough cake mixture to make 5 cakes, a little over the top. I'm sure there must have been a misprint in the book somewhere. In the end I only used two of them stacked on top of each other with lemon butter cream between.
The cake was then covered in icing and decorated with pale yellow flowers. I have to say not my best icing effort but the cake did turn out nice, all the spare cakes got eaten in less than a day, well I had to test them to make sure they were okay.
The cake was then covered in icing and decorated with pale yellow flowers. I have to say not my best icing effort but the cake did turn out nice, all the spare cakes got eaten in less than a day, well I had to test them to make sure they were okay.
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You made five cakes and had to test three of them ! Thats taking quality control to a whole new level :)
ReplyDeleteAnd my waiste line as well. They were so nice, probably the best cake I've made.
ReplyDeleteWow, that looks really good now that you've loaded up the photos. You must have been pleased with that !
ReplyDeleteYeah :-) It was fun to make, the icing was rubbish but it tasted nice.
ReplyDeleteVery impressive Brian!!!!! I had no idea u had just baking flair!! I expect freshly baked goods on a regular basis from now on :)
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