...eat cake. Chocolate is good, undeniably, but cake is marginally better. I've taken to making a dozen cupcakes, which last us nicely through the week. The carrot cake was...err...an aberration, but a tasty one. To make my cupcakes, I use a Victoria Sponge recipe, using 3 eggs. I find that's enough to fill twelve muffin cases. To the basic recipe, I add the grated rind of an orange, and then make orange flavoured icing using some of the juice. Yum yum; my neighbour, who isn't really very sweet toothed, called them 'refreshing'. They certainly smell delightfully of orange.
The carrot cake is an online recipe I found some time ago; search the BBC cookery website and search for 'Yummy Scrummy Carrot Cake'. I have to say, the cake tastes better than the title sounds... The last time I made it, I substituted allspice for the cinnamon and nutmeg, put in a handful of raisins and some sour cherries. That was delicious. This time, I've added a handful of raisins and some dried cranberries, so I'm looking forward to seeing how that comes out. This lot should keep us going until the middle of next week...unless we're deluged by visitors, of course. That doesn't happen much, but I did promise to take a couple to a friend for coffee...twice... that's four down, eight to go...
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