Wow. It's been a week already? How did that happen? You know what's not a good idea? Watching successive episodes of The Great British Bake Off last thing at night. I have not once in my life manufactured Choux but am now convinced,convinced I tell you, that it is the simplest thing in the world to whip the ingredients together into something ( Read more... )

Never has this icon been more apropos.

Okay. So these started out life a very long time ago as an increasingly crazy series of Concept Cupcakes. You know. Like Concept Cars. The sort someone draws on paper before a bunch of
imagination-challenged paper-pushers level-headed executives point out the production-line model couldn't possibly make any ( Read more... )

This Year In Food - meme I've altered

Overall Thoughts:
More experimentation needed with cupcake flavours. More effort needs to be concentrated on improving the low-carb versions. Cupcakes need to be planned further ahead than the day before the occasion for which they are planned.

Looking back, did you make more food than you thought you ( Read more... )

Thing One: BAKING
Friends visited for Halloween so I made vegan ice-cream, home-made chocolates, cranarchan, and toffee apple cupcakes.

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We had friends over tonight. There was discussion and laughter and exchanging of hostages borrowed items and lots and lots of food.

Some of the food looked like this:


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Step 1 ( Read more... )

 As promised, a report on the outcome of the breadmakers.

Both breadmakers work.

Neither caught fire. {insert applause here}

This was good.

The first test loaf was made in the cheaper quality breadmaker( and came out looking like this: )