Exploring new territory
Currently I have two sponge cakes in the oven, to be theoretically assembled into a victoria sponge. This is cause for trepidation. Despite the fact I bake fairly often (there are still some chocolate beetroot cupcakes left, despite best efforts to scoff them all) I have never yet successfully made a sponge. I don't know what it is, but they seem to be my downfall - they always end up flat as pancakes or dense as bricks or both.
It's been a while since my last attempt though, and a lot more baking experience, and I did everything by the book (trying to keep lots of air in the batter) so we shall see what happens. It will be good if I can get the hang of it because they make excellent birthday cakes, and hobnobs is very fond of victoria sandwich cake.
Otherwise it's been fairly quiet here. Work is progressing on the Secret Business Project, which will be less secret very shortly. The website is now live but i'm not going to point people at it until i'm all ready to go. Yes, i'm being slightly superstitious/paranoid but I feel better about doing things all in the right order and not starting the 'marketing campaign' until everything else is set! Actually I was hoping to be all done by this week, and i'm nearly there, just waiting on a couple of trial runs of the material. You'll be the first to know when it's there ;)
It's been a while since my last attempt though, and a lot more baking experience, and I did everything by the book (trying to keep lots of air in the batter) so we shall see what happens. It will be good if I can get the hang of it because they make excellent birthday cakes, and hobnobs is very fond of victoria sandwich cake.
Otherwise it's been fairly quiet here. Work is progressing on the Secret Business Project, which will be less secret very shortly. The website is now live but i'm not going to point people at it until i'm all ready to go. Yes, i'm being slightly superstitious/paranoid but I feel better about doing things all in the right order and not starting the 'marketing campaign' until everything else is set! Actually I was hoping to be all done by this week, and i'm nearly there, just waiting on a couple of trial runs of the material. You'll be the first to know when it's there ;)