Yesterday started with (unfortunately) having to go to work and for once I spent my entire shift actually having to do work, though a fair amount of the time was also spent taking photos of the security guards (I'll explain later in the week) and bitching about the incompatance of my boss, who fortunately had the day off!
But after work was when the real fun started!! Me one of my best friends decided to dedicate an entire day to baking, and even braved the crazy unpredictable Aberdeen snow to get ingredients. We looked a bit demented wandering up and down Morrisons with our recipe books (too lazy to copy them out) searching for the ingredients and sulking when they didn't have all the bizzare things we required!
Not a pair to make things easy for ourselves, we decided to make 3 cakes; a Lemon loaf (which due to my inadaquetly stocked kitchen ended up a Lemon circle, but tastes sensational regardless!
We made the syrup ourselves also, we couldn't resist a quick cake-break before cracking on with the next cake which was a Raspberry Cheesecake Brownie, 3 layers of cakey goodness!! Unfortunately we didn't realise we had to leave this cake to set over night, so had to finish it off this morning, but it really was worth the wait!!
We also made some Strawberry and Cream cupcakes...
which were also delicious but for a while started to take over my flat, there was so many of them! We had to invite some people round to help us eat them all!
Most of today was spent with my friend setting up a joint blog to record all our baking and cooking (with lots of cake breaks of course!) We are both foodies and often cook for each other and thought it would be fun to record all the nice dishes we make! I also bullied her into starting her own blog!
For tea tonight we had the pink pasta, and despite looking like a plateful of worms, it was incredibly tasty!
Thank you Lynsey for a lovely weekend!!!
Eurghh, now I have to do some university readings for my nine o'clock class tomorrow! American Kinship, here I come! (Though I expect there will be several cake-breaks and possibly even a film break during this!)
xxx
