caking and making and baking, oh my!

cakemakes:

Lemon polenta cake.

I whipped this up this morning because I had a lemon knocking about in the cupboard and thought it looked a bit sad. So behold, a beautiful summer’s day cake! And so simple.

Ingredients:

120g SR flour

180g granulated sugar

140g polenta

80ml sunflower oil

80ml milk

Juice and grated rind of one lemon

1 egg

Preheat the oven to 180C, bung all the ingredients into a bowl and give it a good old mix around, pour it into a lined loaf tin and bake for 50 minutes. Ice with a drizzle of icing sugar and lemon juice glacé icing. Delicious!

Made this for the second time in a month today. So simple, so delicious!

OMG.

gingertoast:

What type of cheese impairs the vision of a horse? Mascarpone!

I ACTUALLY WON CAKE CLUB. With a cheesecake! *brags forever*

Double chocolate Oreo cupcakes, with a secret Oreo hidden in the base, topped with whipped cream Oreo frosting and a whole Oreo.

… I like Oreos.

These are my entry for cake club tomorrow and I BETTER WIN THIS TIME.

Recipe!

Earl grey cupcakes.

FYI anyone who cares, I really don’t trust Hummingbird Bakery recipes. The cake did turn out a bit spongy as per (obv it’s sponge cake but shouldn’t look like a sponge) but it’s a cracking idea & tastes rather nice. So… I guess I’m torn.

My AMAZING home-made Christmas cake.

Christmas Cake Club entry: German Lebkuchen

Lebkuchen (or Leeberkuchin as I used to call them) are one of my favourite things about Christmas. My Mum would buy a bag of pretty frosted gingerbread shapes and they’d all be eaten by the next day. I haven’t found any in the supermarket this year, so I thought it was a good opportunity to make my own (also I was too hungover to make anything more complex this weekend ;) ).

So, I found this wonderful looking recipe, a key element being a good way to use my left-over treacle from the Christmas cake. The resulting biscuits, although having a lovely chewy texture, had an overpowering taste of treacle and no hint of spice. Really sad.

Once again, I am yet to have a victory at Cake Club. *cries into my weird fudge and weird gingerbread*

Chocolate and peanut butter cupcakes take 2!

I’ve made these for our post-massive-presentation-sigh-of-relief tomorrow. My group ask me every week why I haven’t made cake - because I make them on weekends and eat them by the time we have uni the following Thursday of course! Psh.

Anyway, here’s the recipe!

(Source: lookingatclouds, via hollybop-deactivated20120414)