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This is where I put all the stuff I make, mostly baking but you never know what else will turn up :)

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Banana and toffee sticky cake

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This is a nice, easy recipe which came out of the supplement to the March Waitrose Kitchen magazine - Spring Harvest.

I prepped everything before I started as I didn't think that stopping half way through to grate the squash was going to work! I ended up with loads of washing up as I had everything in bowls but the actual making was dead simple. The directions are accurate, I've got a fan oven so baked for about 5 mins less than they said and it was fine.

Would make a nice pud ad well as being delicious with a cup of tea. Definitely one to do again!

Battenburg Cake

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Today's project was Battenburg from a recipe by Lorraine Pascale. As with all things it wasn't as easy as it looked!

I thought I had two loaf tins but couldn't find the second one so the mixture went into a square tin with the hope that it wouldn't merge too much at the margin. I used red food colouring however I think I should really have used pink. Might have been better if I'd put a bit more in, as it was it ended up looking orange. At least you can see the difference with the uncounted cake.

I left the cake in the oven for an extra couple of minutes as I wasn't convinced that it was cooked. Probably shouldn't have done as I think it is a teeny bit dry.

Cutting it up and sticking it together was OK however I thought there might be tears with the marzipan as I hadn't put enough icing sugar on the silicone pastry mat and it looked as though everything might come unstuck! A bit of persuasion, trimming the edges and it has actually come out looking like Battenburg cake! Result!

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