Finally made the Jaffa cake. It was on my baking list for a while, after I saw a homemade version on a TV cooking competition a few years ago. I know and quite like the version one can purchase in the biscuit section in supermarkets, I don’t know how they are called in UK, probably just Jaffa cakes. In France, they are called Pim’s.
I’ve thought of making the regular size ones, but don’t have the moulds. I decide to make a giant one, with my 2 cooking pans.
Mine was less sweet compared to the Pim’s and the jelly was not as firm and concentrated in flavour compared to the industrial version. I use bitter chocolate vs the sweeter milk chocolate in Pim’s. Mine had orange zests in the jelly.
LOL! No, my cooling rack was below the cake, the sponge cake was too soft and with the weight of jelly, I couldn’t move the cake. It was until I poured the chocolate, the cake hardened and I could finally move it. Actually, I used the garden sieve, which has the same pattern as the rack.
Peach muffins. Defrosted peaches from the summer pick your own to enjoy in the midst of cold NJ winter. This is a very quick one bowl diced fresh fruit with lemon zest batter. The original recipe calls for raspberries.
Yum! I have frozen nectarines that would be good in this too. I made very similar muffins a couple of weeks ago - straight up batter with lemon zest and some mostly dehydrated (then frozen) upick strawberries from last summer.
Marble bundt cake from ‘Midwest Made’. Very nice and moist but next time I’ll either omit the choc chips or used chopped choc instead. Didn’t care for the hard dots of choc in the cake, I think chopped choc might be less intrusive. Or a ganache glaze…
Beautiful cake @Elsieb, and gorgeous plate! Have the cookbook due to one of your creations, so, good to know about your rec away from the chocolate chips.
I freeze the muffins we don’t finish. Usually about 48 hrs after they’re baked. If you take them out of the freezer, briefly thaw them in the micro (30 sec?) and then put them in a toaster over, they revive nicely. That should keep yours from drying out.
Huh. I’ve never bought one either, but I’ve never lived in a place that didn’t already come with one. I’d have to make a lot of daily adjustments without one!
I was craving a NY style cheesecake - it’s been years since I baked one. Do you think I could find my recipe? Hell no. So… I got lucky. I tried the recipe from Tori Avery. Simple & outstanding. I’ll post a picture of what’s left later.
