Currently we are besotted with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Fizz Carr's A loaf of Fresh White Bread from their A River Cottage Family Cookbook. It's an almost creamy loaf with olive oil and honey, just bloomin' delicious.
The other baking interest at the moment is the difference between or perhaps it's my preference for muffins over cupcakes. I think, mostly, it's the fact I see muffins as quicker, easier, can be thrown together in 15 minutes from whatever you have to hand, kind of fare. Whereas, cupcakes I see as their high maintenance cousin.....
So I am going to attempt to have my own bake-off, muffin vs cupcake, potentially each week (but the wee ones may have something else to say about that, we'll see....)
So today I made Lemon muffins (using Alison Holst's Marvellous Muffins book), later in the week it will be Lemon cupcakes and I shall compare and contrast. These were lovely, light, moist and just enough bite of lemon. The other bonus was I was able to come in and have them done and dusted in about 25 minutes total, after feeding pigs, chickens, collecting cherry guava and cleaning a toddler of paddock mud and cow pat..... that was a huge draw card!
We don't go for too much in the way of extras (cream etc) with baking on a weekly basis (we leave that for special occasions).
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