Comments on: Cake Dear? How to make the most of weekend baking

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:05:19 +0000

Scrumptious thought of cake with Sunday afternoon tea. We have Sophie’s Kindi Fair this weekend and I have to do baking for the cake stand – thank you for this wonderfully, simple idea! We’re also on sausage sizzle duty – and I can tell you I’m not looking forward to Friday night’s preparation of cutting up 30 onions (goggles plllllease!).

By: Paola Brett

Paola Brett — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:46:36 +0000

For some reason, since arriving in NZ I have been doing much more baking! I already have a sweet tooth, but I think the disappointing chocolate and muffins here means I want to make my own delights, as well as many magazines/newspapers full of wonderful recipes. Easy treat to keep in the freezer is a Nigella Lawson recipe for Chocolate Pistacio Fudge – it’s a bung in the pot to melt together type of recipe, then pour into container and freeze. Yum straight from the freezer and proving popular with friends, who now request it!

By: Ruta M

Ruta M — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:37:33 +0000

Unfortunately I’m the one with a sweet tooth … and an expanding waistline, so to avoid temptation I’ve stopped baking for the moment. Linas did ask me for the recipe for madeira cake as he wants to take some for his lunch My other big excuse for not baking is that the rayburn is so variable in temperature and really hard to gauge. Also because the oven has its own flu you can’t smell what’s cooking – or burning. We’ve had some very charred items come out of that oven, things like pork fat put back in to make crackling and then forgotten or croissants put in to warm and also forgotten.

By: Rachel Cotterill

Rachel Cotterill — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:41:19 +0000

I don’t bake as many cakes as I should, mostly because it feels like an inefficient use of time to bake a *small* cake… and then we have to eat more cake than is really sensible. Plus I have less of a sweet tooth, so I tend to focus my energy on making main dishes. I do often bring in my husband as back-up photographer, though, so he can take the pictures while I’m up to my elbows in flour 🙂