Baking Skills
Today, Freyja and I made fairy cakes. This is something we do quite often - baking is one of the things that we both enjoy doing (rather than something I feel I ought to do to drag her away from the telly) so we frequently rustle up fairy cakes, biscuits, scones or some other such delight.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not much of a cook - I have a few dishes I make and I stick to them because I can cook them and they taste nice. The baking is causing me a few more problems. I've now made countless numbers of fairy cakes and biscuits and more often than not they don't turn out quite as I hoped. The one thing we cracked from the outset was banana loaf and after today's performance* I think maybe we should stick with that.
Here are our fairy cakes:
One of them was really more of a biscuit:
Sadly, the biscuit one actually tasted better than those that had managed to rise more than a few millimetres above the centre of the bun cases. Delia Smith, I am not.
Still, even pale, flat fairy cakes can be decorated by an eager 3 year old. And eaten by one too.
* While I do let Freyja get properly involved in the baking, I can in no way pass any of the blame onto her. She'd probably do a better job if I just left her to it.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not much of a cook - I have a few dishes I make and I stick to them because I can cook them and they taste nice. The baking is causing me a few more problems. I've now made countless numbers of fairy cakes and biscuits and more often than not they don't turn out quite as I hoped. The one thing we cracked from the outset was banana loaf and after today's performance* I think maybe we should stick with that.
Here are our fairy cakes:
One of them was really more of a biscuit:
Sadly, the biscuit one actually tasted better than those that had managed to rise more than a few millimetres above the centre of the bun cases. Delia Smith, I am not.Still, even pale, flat fairy cakes can be decorated by an eager 3 year old. And eaten by one too.
* While I do let Freyja get properly involved in the baking, I can in no way pass any of the blame onto her. She'd probably do a better job if I just left her to it.
posted by solveig at
6:08 pm
3 Comments:
110g butter
110g caster sugar
110g sr flour
2 large eggs
cream the butter and sugar together, add the eggs (slowly) then fold in the flour.
15-20mins at 190 degrees C.
Makes 12 buns.
foolproof recipe, honest - beat the eggs before you add them and make sure the mixture doesn't curdle - if it does, add a little flour.
What the heck is a 'g' - let alone 110 of them?
*flees*
Thanks Rowan. I do use those ingredients, but I don't cream the butter and sugar first - and I always end up with lumps of butter in my mixture. I don't whisk the eggs either. This may be where I am going wrong!
We'll have another go tomorrow.
S x
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