Much ado about nothing much at all...

Life certainly gets in the way sometimes.. I have wanted to post an entry just about every day since my last one, but nothing eventuated.

This post is fairly lacklustre too, I'm tired and my mind is blankety blank blank blank.

One thing I can report is that I have been busy in the kitchen baking.. I have been favouring a few recipes of late... Shelle's World Famous brownies, Frills in the Hills' Homemade LCM's) and a coconut slice (a lovely little gem found in New Idea yonks ago).. They are all slices of some sort and they are fairly uncomplicated.

Today I managed to make some more brownies and LCMs for the upcoming school week (and to feed Hubby and Miss H when they get the munchies during the day..) But wait, there was more! My firstborn, Master T, decided that he would get in on the action in the kitchen. He usually makes pikelets on a semi-regular basis, although there are never many left on the plate by the time he finishes cooking the batch he made up.. between me, Miss H and hubby.. fresh, warm pikelets are irresistable. Miss H kept coming back and pinching "just one more!"

Anyway, I digress. He had a hankering for a nougat slice with coffee icing that my MIL used to make - so he set to work. He also made some Milo Muffins. They turned out quite nice and were also a winner with the fussy Master D. Problem is, Master T is hesitant to eat them now, he is worried that he might get poisoned by the silicone bakeware that he cooked the muffins in. I must admit that I shared his concern the other day, whilst I was cooking mini quiches, I could also notice that there was a smell being emitted. (I aquired a set of silicone bakeware through a good deal, however I believe the quality of it leaves a lot to be desired... but if you pay peanuts, you have to expect monkeys, right?)

My next baking adventure lies with cakes.. mainly provoked by the event of having to order a cake for Miss C's baptism party. Long story short, I had entertained the thought of making one myself, but who am I kidding, I dont have the time or the inclination to right now. It did leave me with thoughts of what I would have done. I detest sponge cake with a passion. Sometimes I feel it's like eating a sponge, literally. I LOVE dense cakes, esp. mud cakes.

I then got to thinking about what I would make if I did choose to bake the cake myself. I could do the coconut cake slice in bulk proportions, but that would taste weird with icing. All of a sudden my mind wandered to a recipe that my Nan had written out and lent to my mum, eventually acquired by yours truly. It was a recipe for Sand cake, and from memory, I THINK it's a happy medium between fluffly sponge cake and rich, dense mudcake.

I'm also keen to try out Shelle's Wacky Cake recipe too.

I shall endeavour to make one or the other in the next couple of days.

Must go now, head is starting to loll forward, hard to stay awake!

TGBTG

Anje :)