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Live webchat and baking session with Dan Lepard, Fri 8 Jan, 12-2pm

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GeraldineMumsnet · 05/01/2010 13:22

We've got a Mumsnet first this Friday - award-winning baker and food writer Dan Lepard is our guest for a bake day and live webchat. Should be just the thing to counter wintry gloom and warm up your kitchen.

Dan's involved with the World Marmalade Festival, which promotes all thing marmalade-y and supports the charity Hospice at Home. So he has chosen Ponymum's muffin recipe and given it a citrus-y twist. Full details, ingredients, plus all Dan's variations on the recipe are here.

Please choose the version that tickles your tastebuds and join us to bake along with Dan on Friday. He'll be online from noon.

While your (and our) culinary creations are cooking, Dan will answer questions and swap tips about baking, bread making, marmalade making and the like.

Once your muffins/pudding/traybake are out of the oven, please share a picture of the finished result on your profile. We'll put up pix of our efforts here.

And, of course, if you can't make it on Friday but have a question you'd like to ask Dan, please post here.

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4andnotout · 05/01/2010 14:33

I read it as a web chat with Def Leppard Which I thought was fairly random

CMOTdibbler · 05/01/2010 14:39

Dan, if you can come up with a recipe for gluten free pastry that tastes nice, rolls out, and doesn't bake to something resembling kevlar (especially if double baked for quiche), I'll love you forever

MmeLindt · 05/01/2010 15:08

I might just join in as I have never been able to make muffins.

Not promising a pic of the result though.

GeraldineMumsnet · 05/01/2010 15:28

Hope you can. Pix not mandatory, but the more the messier merrier.

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MmeLindt · 05/01/2010 15:35

My last attempt was fit for the dog bin, not for photographing and putting on MN for all the world to laugh.

And don't mention soufflés to me after the disaster on Xmas Eve.

GeraldineMumsnet · 05/01/2010 15:38

Am impressed you even attempted something as ambitious on Xmas Eve. Respect!

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MmeLindt · 05/01/2010 15:42

It was awful. DC were in the bath, I was running between kitchen and cellar to get the presents waiting for Christkind (we are half-German so Christkind comes on Xmas Eve) putting the new PJs on the DC's beds, while trying to make soufflés for the first time.

I will save my soufflé questions for Dan, since Delia let me down so badly.

badietbuddy · 05/01/2010 15:54

Am I the only one who misread this as Def Leppard?

Bessie123 · 05/01/2010 16:05

I love his vegan chocolate cake

4andnotout · 05/01/2010 16:09

I did too badietbuddy

stealthsquiggle · 05/01/2010 16:21

I am so tempted, even though I should will be working. I could add the results to the 30+ muffins of various savoury and sweet varieties currently residing in the freezer ready to be breakfast for 16 on Sunday (that's less than 2 muffins each, come to think of it - I had better get baking )

Admission of ignorance, though - I have never heard of him - should I have done?

stealthsquiggle · 05/01/2010 16:23

purist objection, though - that recipe involves beating. I always thought that on principle (and to avoid being too chewy) muffins only ever involved roughly stirring wet ingredients into dry (and no washing up of food processor/mixer)?

pointydig · 05/01/2010 16:50

lol @ def leppard

I have never heard of dan lepard and I do like baking. I will check out.

policywonk · 05/01/2010 17:04

Dan Leppard writes a baking column for the Guardian's Saturday magazine (so if you haven't heard of him you are hereby EXPOSED as a non-Guardian reader)

policywonk · 05/01/2010 17:05

AArgh, you've got me doing it now.

Leppard Lepard

stealthsquiggle · 05/01/2010 17:05

Oops - considering I won a Grauniad competition yesterday, that is distinctly .

policywonk · 05/01/2010 17:08

Ooh, what did you win?

pointydig · 05/01/2010 17:10

Proudly exposed

stealthsquiggle · 05/01/2010 17:12

Tickets to see Peter Pan at the O2 - DM and DS are going

pointydig · 05/01/2010 17:13

Have checked out. Recipes look nice.

Is he better than supremo Sue Lawrence though? I love her baking recipes.

GrungeBlobPrimpants · 05/01/2010 17:13

Dang! Another one who logged onto thread in hope of a chat with Def Leppard.

Marmalade making doesn't cut it I'm afraid

StewieGriffinsMom · 05/01/2010 17:42

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BoysAreLikeDogs · 05/01/2010 17:50

ahem

This is not the first realtime cookout on MN I'll have you know

look, there were swans and talk of injections and golden balls and ever'thing

sfxmum · 05/01/2010 18:09

great shed loads of cookies at this house are his recipe
goes away to think of bread questions

sfxmum · 05/01/2010 18:09

that makes no sense sugar rush

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