Sunday 13th May 2012

There has been a severe lack of making (no time) and baking (diet) in this house of late. This has been partly rectified tonight by the baking of Apple Crumble Loaf from this months BBC Good Food Magazine. According to the magazine, the cooking time is 50-55 minutes. According to me it's 1 hour and 20  minutes!

There has also been a sort of making. Well, if you count sewing up the large hole under the arm of a blouse so I can wear it again as making!

Not at all exciting. And I have a very busy week or two coming up so don't hold your breath for anything exciting too soon. Three weeks to the next holiday - surely there will be making and baking then!

Sunday 4th December 2011

This week's baking:

Mincemeat buns

Christmas gingerbread - stars, trees, hearts and gingerbread men

Winter fruit salad - pears, apples, satsumas, raisins in a syrup made from cranberry juice, brown sugar, cinnamon and ginger, just warmed up and served with vanilla ice cream  (and a piece of gingerbread!)

This week's making:

Christmas Patchwork Cushion

The patchwork part is finished, now it needs turning into a cushion!

Christmas is coming!

This week's baking:

Boozy Christmas fruit for the Christmas cake (from www.thepinkwhisk.co.uk)

Herman the sourdough cake (one on the left has dried apple, the one on the right has fresh cooking apples in -  an experiment to see which is the best!)

This week's making:

finished bag:

(Well, I say finished, it wasn't quite then! There's a flower missing from the back, and the buttons to fasten the bag are missing from the front!)

Candy cane candle

This was hard!! The candy canes are taped to the glass inside, and they still kept falling off and breaking! Hubby and Small Boy had a great time eating the broken ones though!

Oopsy, another blog!

I needed this to collect together any home made sewing, crafting and baking thoughts, ideas and items.

This weeks baking - toffee apple flapjack

Ingredients:
100g butter
100g golden castor sugar
3 tbsp golden syrup
225g oats
150g chopped dried apple
10 chopped toffees

Melt butter, sugar and syrup, remove from heat and stir in oats, apple and toffees. Fill a lined baking tray (mine is 24cm square and 5cm deep) and bake at 180 degrees (mine is a fan oven) for 25 mins.

This weeks making - patchwork cushion for Christmas, bag for a birthday present