I will indeed need to do it with a wooden spoon. I have none of the new fangled kitchen apparatus for baking. Basically cos I'm not a baker! I cook and use my processor continually, but baking is a black art. I can make bread and pastyy and scones, but the feather light sponge cake resembles a frisbee. The imposible to manke wrong 'aunty Suzi's Sponge' was disastrous.
My gingerbread was used as a door stop and even my ginger mad stealing Lhasa Apso turned his nose up at it! I have the indignity of taking a fruit cake to SUnday teas and having to take it home. Oh the hurt and shame of it !
The need for battenburg was very very powerful, thus overcoming my trepidation at a journey to the other side of baking. My reasoning was that if it's awful, I can still eat the marzipan
It wasn't wonderful ,but better than Mr Kipling/Asda/Tesco/M&S offerings. Nowhere on the scale beside the Voe Bakery or Orkney one though.
I must persevere. Even considering one of those mixer things. Although the Hairy Bikers do theirs in a processor...
WHO DIDN'T let on that the Hairies have a battenburg recipe. Shame on you all when I was in my hour of need
My gingerbread was used as a door stop and even my ginger mad stealing Lhasa Apso turned his nose up at it! I have the indignity of taking a fruit cake to SUnday teas and having to take it home. Oh the hurt and shame of it !
The need for battenburg was very very powerful, thus overcoming my trepidation at a journey to the other side of baking. My reasoning was that if it's awful, I can still eat the marzipan
It wasn't wonderful ,but better than Mr Kipling/Asda/Tesco/M&S offerings. Nowhere on the scale beside the Voe Bakery or Orkney one though.
I must persevere. Even considering one of those mixer things. Although the Hairy Bikers do theirs in a processor...
WHO DIDN'T let on that the Hairies have a battenburg recipe. Shame on you all when I was in my hour of need
