So I'm sitting at my desk, and it's cold and grey, and I'm distracted because I'm having meetings for jobs which is good but also bad, so I think I'll go and bake a cake.
Despite my surname, I am not much of a baker. I can do cakes, but bread seems to be beyond me, unless I use one of those pre-mixed mixes. Which is cheating. I can do pizza dough, but that's easy.
Anyway, I remember telling the woman who interviewed me for school that I liked baking, and I remember the 'Pooh's Book of Baking' (or something similar) that I learned from. So I've been a caker for quite a while. Recently I have had some success with a lemon drizzle cake, and not long before that a gingerbread cake was incredibly delicious, but today I think is a day for either chocolate or coffee and walnut.
Baking a cake ticks two boxes: it's absorbing, creative activity, followed by cake. Coffee and walnut, I think. Mmmm.
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i have been the lucky and proud recipient of the lemon drizzle cake and i can confirm that you live up to your surname. i won't hear any arguments.
ReplyDeletei'm glad i wasn't there for the rye bread debacle though.
and coffee and walnut cake has to be one of the best cakes in th unverse. i can recommend the 'home made' one at the dulwich picture gallery.