Does my bum look big in this??????

Almost Pims O'clock

 Had an unexpected guest, luckily I was half-way through baking for knitting club tomorrow so I had something to offer her!

 We took our tray out into a garden where it was blazing sunshine.......so hot infact I had to go and get the parasol......

 We had  lovely scrummy chocolate and hazelnut palmiers.......and a lovely natter......

 The sun was lovely shining through the trees...........

There was a hint of what is to come.........lovely sunshine...birdsong...and meals in the garden with friends.....it's almost Pims O'clock and almost iced earl grey lavender lemonade time.....

The palmiers are so easy to make just three ingrediants.......

 Roasted hazelnuts........

 easiest way to crush them is pop them in a clean tea towel and bash with your rolling pin.....

 this.......

 And puff pastry....roll it out into an oblong spread the nuteela over it and sprinkle the nuts over the top.......

 Roll both ends up into the middle...rest in the fridge...slice and bake......

What could be easier......they will be laid on a board and sprinkled with icing sugar tomorrow to serve x x x

Lilac scented sponge cake.

 Used my lilac jam to make a this cake for knitting club and decorated it with the lilac flowers that I crystalised ...every week I have to make a cake for the ladies at my knitting club, which I help run,

As from next week I have to make TWO! It's quite hard finding different flavours each week...... Please pop over and check out the other blog I run on behalf of the knitting club....it's quite time consuming doing two!!!!!    http://sidmouthknitcafe.blogspot.co.uk/

Dandelion Petal Cake......

 As regular readers of my blog will be aware I have got into foraging ....BIG TIME.

At the moment I am captivated by the humble Dandelion......Making a few Dandelion Petal Cakes....

It's very labour intensive.....involving picking dandelion heads....washing them, then pulling all the petals off, steeping overnight, straining, making into a syrup,  then pickinganother lot of  dandelions, washing  and pulling all the petals off to put into the cake along with syrup. But well worth all the effort x x

Next week I am making another lot of syrup, and some dandelion marmalade which is delicious, would anyone be interested in purchasing a jar off of me???????

Apple and Lavender Cake x

 I have to make a cake every week for knitting club ......
 


 This week I picked some primroses and violets from The Byes and crystallized them......

 To decorate my lavender and apple ring cake x

 And very yummy it was too..........

Very spring like x

And I wonder why....

And I wonder ...with all the cake I have been making for knitting club

 

 

 

 

 

Why my harris has become the size of a small continent!

Although I would not want you, my dear readers to labour under the false impression that I am a blogging domestical goddess....here is one of my cake disasters..this was SUPPOSED to be gluten free shortbread..*please note the lovely melted plastic shortbread mold....don't ask!!!!!!!

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Spoil Sport!

Mother is staying and refuses to play nicely!

She refuses to have a pretty cup and saucer! Insisting on a mug.....which spoils my pretty tea trays!

She mutters about "all that washing up!" and complains "who the hell is going to see it" I shout MEEEEEE!!!!!She won't drink Earl Grey "tastes like perfume " and insists on Monkey tea (P.G tips)

She grumbles "all that faffing around!" I tried to explain that faffing is very exhausting and time consuming and so terribly difficult to get right. If you don't faff to the correct standard its just messing about and messing about will never do!