My house this week has felt like the set from The Great British Bake Off! The passion, the tears, the jubilation, the desperation. All have visited the Quilt Patch this week. I first decided to make a Dundee cake, as that could be made a few days in advance, and I love fruit cake! Unfortunately, my oven is a bit tricky, temperature-wise, as it's fan assisted. I usually just drop the temperature by about 20 degrees, and all is fine. Not this time though. The published cooking time was 2 - 2 1/2 hours, and by 1 3/4 hours my cake was overcooked! Not by much, but more than I would have liked. I didn't have enough ingredients to go again, so it would have to do.
Next I made a lemon syrup cake, courtesy of Nigella. I do love her recipes, and this came out just right. My Easy Chocolate Cake was next up. I have made this a few times now, and it is by far the yummiest, and easiest I've ever made. All was going well, until I came to ice it. I still don't know what exactly went wrong, but the chocolate and cream mixture ejected all of the fat solids. I have never seen this before, and again, I had no spare chocolate to make more. I had to make do with a sprinkling of icing sugar on top.
Finally I made Spiced Pumpkin Latte Cupcakes from this recipe I found on Pinterest. I just love these! They have just the right amount of spice, and a very subtle hint of coffee. They look incredible too.
As this is supposed to be a patchwork blog, I did knock together a few coasters to put in the raffle. Unfortunately this is all the sewing I've been able to do in the past couple of weeks. Here are a few pictures.
I paticularly liked the quilting on the trees, and I even hand quilted the brown/green ones. Unfortunately I forgot to photograph the finished article!
The good news is that our coffee morning raised £500 for Macmillan, so we were absolutely thrilled with that!
Well done for raising all that money. Cute coasters :)
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