I'm not sure if I've put this in my journal before. I don't think I have, it's certainly not tagged.

I'm just waiting for a tray of muffins to bake so here's the recipe:

( Chocolate chip muffins )

The actual Swedish recipe I got this from includes a tablespoon of cardemon but, with a mutter of 'Those wacky Swedes', I ignored that. This is my version (and are the rolls I brought to sushidog's tea party the other week). I've just made another batch. Well it's a bank holiday, gotta have baked goods on a bank holiday weekend.

( Recipe )

I made silenttex an apple and cinnamon cake for his birthday, but it came out looking more like a pudding so we ate it with custard. As a pudding it works very well, but it's not really a cake in the serve on plates and eat with fingers style of cake.

( The recipe )

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Travelled back from Galway yesterday and am now staying with the twinster and her lot until Sunday. I was getting moaned at earlier by them (well not the offspring obviously) about the fact that I hadn't started baking yet so I hauled my arse into the kitchen and got to work - they're a demanding pair but I'm hoping that knowing them will result in ( Read more... )