Auntie Knows Best

We have plans tomorrow to meet with friends to watch the Queen’s Funeral. Whilst it is a sad occasion, cake remedies much of the sadness.

The church I attend runs a cafe on Thursdays and Fridays most weeks and I have been asked to bake for the every month.

These cute little Victoria Sponges are my contribution and I took some to work. I can confirm they taste pretty good!

Back to work for me today and I am absolutely knackered! Not time for a pic today so here is one of a delicious cake I made for the quiz at the weekend. Even if I do say so myself, it was pretty delicious!

First ever attempt at a carrot cake.

It was delicious.

As soon as I got home from work today I started baking because it is North Show week!

This year I have entered….

Guernsey Sweet Cake
Guernsey Buttermilk Cake (which has the wrong quantities of vinegar in it!)
Christmas Muffins
Apple and Sultana Muffins
Vanilla and Chocolate Chip Muffins

I have taken them to the tent for judging tomorrow. Only time will tell whether my efforts have been worth it!

I am completely shattered tonight! For some completely insane reason I agreed to make 200 cupcakes for the church family tent on Liberation Day on Saturday.

I must have been drunk when I agreed to it!

Anyway. They’re are all done and sorted although I wouldn’t class them as my best ever work.

Now I am ready for bed!

Tonight I have been doing a load of baking for a sale I am having tomorrow.

It generally went to plan other than the flapjacks which wouldn’t come out of the tin. In the end I gave up and hacked it out in a pile and made another one.

Sometimes you have to know when you are beat!

Oooo look at it! This is a prize-winning Sweet Cake made to Auntie Doris’s secret family recipe.

I made 4 of them today and it tastes delicious!

The diet? Nope not going well at all!

It was a gloriously beautiful day today. This morning we went for a walk to the Fairy Ring with my sister, a friend and my aunt and all the kids.

This afternoon we met up with my friends Emma and Ellen and their children and we walked to a local nature reserve. Such a warm and beautiful day and Emma and her daughter Ava had been busy in the kitchen and made some delicious chocolate cakes. A little picnic of cake and coffee finished off our day nicely.

I can’t believe that I am now on the home straight to going back to work. The time has just gone by so fast.

Today was the start of our local show, the “North Show” and I decided to enter three cakes; a fruit cake, a Buttermilk cake and a Sweet cake.

My Mum always entered along with her two sisters and the competition was hot! Usually we are at Greenbelt so not able to enter but this year I though I would enter in her honour.

I have never made Sweet Cake before so asked Auntie Josie for the secret family recipe which she duly provided. Last year Mum won the class (I think) but this year I won, beating my two aunts into second and third. To say I was delighted was an understatement.

Mind you, they both beat me in the Buttermilk class!