What I've Baked Wednesday...

Hi everyone,

A late post today because I have been so busy! I have baked though...

Lemon Cake

Not a very good photo! This is the lemon cake left plain how my hubby likes it. Daisy made her own lactose-free version (with a little help from auntie Charlotte) and decided to throw in her snacking raisins to improve the recipe! I also iced one cake and cut into squares...

Yeah it did run over the edges a little but it's fine!

Cut up and ready to eat. Here's the recipe...

225g marg

225g caster sugar

4 eggs

275g self-raising flour 

2tsp baking powder

2tbsp milk

Juice of 2 lemons (save a bit back for the icing)

Icing sugar and lemon juice to make icing

Oven 180oC for 40 mins

Wednesday is now baking day! 

Anyone else been baking?

Thanks for reading,

Mandy x

My marriage of steel!!!

Hi

On Friday we celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary. This year is represented by steel, which I think is appropriate for us because our marriage grows stronger everyday. We have been through an awful lot in the past year, but we help each other to keep on going, no matter what is thrown at us next.

Ashley bought us the dvd 'Call the Midwife'.

We went to Stow-on-the-Wold for the day, it was lovely! We love the Cotswolds and treated ourselves to a look around the shops and lunch in a tearoom.

I didn't take any photos, but I have some of the other things I've been up to lately:

Cheese scones

Lemon cake

Waving goodbye to our old car, making way for the Mitsubishi Warrior.

My 1st attempt at millionaire's shortbread

Rock cakes

Fruit scones



Plain scones

I did baking on Sunday too, but as usual, I forgot to take any photos. I made 2 victoria sandwiches, one with strawberry jam, the other with my homemade blackberry and apple jam, some individual coffee cakes and iced fairy cakes. The cake tins are full and I'm building up a stock in the freezer too.

A crafting afternoon ahead for tomorrow...

p.s: I can't leave comments on anybody's blogs and I don't know why and I don't know how to make it better :-(

Please help if you know how.

Mandy x







A little bit of baking...

Hi,

Today I decided to do a quick bit of baking while my jacket potatoes were in the oven. I cannot afford to waste electricity so I made a batch of cheese scones, really yummy fresh out of the oven with butter, and a lemon cake. This cake was a new recipe, where you pour dissolved sugar and lemon juice over the warm cake and allow to soak in. When the cake is cool, you ice it with lemon glace icing. I haven't tried it yet, but I think it will be really moist. I forgot to take a photo earlier, so hopefully I will remember tomorrow before it's all gone!

Blogger is still preventing me from leaving comments on my favourite blogs :-(

I'm off to learn some more thrifty tips off fellow money savers on you tube now.

Decluttering of my bedroom planned for tomorrow...

Mandy x