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Carrying on from Chat.

this is all the titanium I can afford

WH Smith have got all their baking books on 75% off for Mother's Day.

I already got two new books sticky Jamaican ginger cake is in the oven as we speak...smells utterly fabulous!

No baking for me this weekend as I'm off doing feminist marching. (I wanted to take Ken but they don't make a banner attachment )

Maybe this pm I should knock up a batch of cookies for hungry marchers though?

Good heads-up on the baking book sale, WhoKnows. I've pre-ordered this

This would be appropriate Tunip

Cunning, do you have a recipe for the ginger cake? I adore ginger cake.

I am shamefully cutting and pasting. It's a Hugh fearnly whittling stall recipe

Ingredients

75g unsalted butter

125g soft brown sugar

150g black treacle

150g syrup

75ml dark rum

2 eggs, lightly beaten

225g self-raising flour

1 tsp ground all spice

1 tsp ground ginger

A pinch of salt

75g of preserved stem ginger, roughly chopped

Method

First of all grease with butter and line the bottom and sides of a 1 litre loaf tin with baking paper. In a pot melt the butter, sugar, treacle and syrup, mix together.

Once the dark sticky mix has cooled a little, add the rum, and the two beaten eggs.

Now onto the dry ingredients, sift the flour, allspice, ginger and salt into a large mixing bowl and make a little well in the middle. Pour in the melted wet ingredients and mix together. Add in the chopped stem ginger and pour into the loaf tin.

Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees C for about 40 minutes. The cake is cooked when you can insert a skewer into the cake and it will come out clean. Pour some of the syrup from the jar of stem ginger over the cake and allow to completely cool in the loaf tin.

Cake def tastes better after a couple of days and will keep for a week in the fridge. It's a calorie killer tho

Cunning, that looks lovely.

But, got to ask, how did you manage need to use Prospero for this?

Biscuits are chilling prior to cutting out.

It's so great though, this stand mixer thing. I'd never really thought about why it's useful, but it makes the whole process so much quicker because you leave it to mix the first set of ingredients while you're weighing out the next, then when the whole lot is being mixed you can clear up.

That toy Kenwood reminds me I had a toy mixer that really worked when I was a child. Grandma got it for me and my mother was . It was yellow plastic and I mainly used to use it to make frothy milkshake.
(That can't have made a mess, can it? And it's funny, I don't actually remember what happened to it - don't remember breaking it but it must have disappeared....)

MrsChemist, your link didn't work!

Also, just got my BBC Good Food April edition in the post, there is a nice little baking book free with it this month, I assume the ones in the shop have it too.

Tunip I was pondering exactly the same as you this morning. How I could be stirring together all the cake ingredients at the same time as Prospero was beating the egg whites, ready for prompt folding in. Except DS (18mo) is so excited by Prospero (constantly pointing at it and shouting "on"!), I have to hold him and show him what it is doing when it's on.

I had a toy liquidiser that worked when I was a kid. I made Ribena "milkshakes" (Ribena + milk). Think I actually liked them, though the thought now makes me feel quite ill.......

well I used it for the mixing part! Ok so you don't need to mix it hugely...but I could NOT use my prospero...it would have cried!

My biscuits are done - lots for tomorrow plus a good batch of fish biscuits for the two small children in my house who are currently dressed as cats (Kwazi and a Sylvanian).

I used this recipe and this conversion table.

I scaled it down a tiny bit because it would have taken me 37.5g above Ken's maximum load and I don't want to do that to him.

That looks like a good recipe, Tunip, I've been looking for a good one for cutters.

What cutters did you use in the end?

Damn you MN for showing me the kids mixers......my DD is consumed with desire for Eddie so a little one of her own? Might as well bash the credit card some more eh??

Am currently on MN while Eddie bashes some wholemeal bread for me .

Tomorrow, I shall mainly be handing all my birthday money over to Lakeland. Dh has no idea what he agreed to when he said he would take me........

women, men, flowers, hearts, stars, saws (ds1's latest acquisition - it will symbolise how we are going to chop down the patriarchy), snails (to represent the speed at which women's liberation is arriving), feet (because it's a march, obviously), hands, suns, moons, and bells which look a bit like breasts.

It spread a bit more than it was supposed to because I cut down the flour more than I cut down other things, but it's all recognisable. It's a lovely light recipe.

I used the K beater, rubbed the sugar into the fat first then chucked in all the wet ingredients beaten together and the dry ingredients sifted together.

Hmm, feminist march Tunip ? I reckon www.google.fr/search?q=penis+cookie+cutters&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=FfhQT4TeK8O28QPS4cC0Dg&biw=1024&bih=672&sei=GPhQT8qEOMOy8gOfzJjwBQthese would do.

I love the Interpretation of the Symbolism of Feminism via the medium of biscuits

You got a 20% refund right Eddie? It makes total sense to spend that on a baby Ken. Can you convince your dd that you came down one morning and discovered to your amazement that your mixer had had a baby?

love that idea, Tunip!

(Would just like to add I wasn't mocking feminism, the idea of reducing the ultimate symbol of manhood to mere crumbs appealed to my naff sense of humour).

Thanks to advice on here I contacted amazon about the missing mill (despite the fact I didn't even know it was supposed to have one til I read it on here!).

I started emailing in, and the reply I got didn't answer the query, so phoned instead. The man I spoke to said he could only authorise a 15% refund, but I was quite happy with that, didn't want to push for too much (know someone on here got 20%). As my propero had drop in price to £115.99 when I bought it, with the refund it means it was under £100, so I'm well happy. Without this thread I wouldn't have reaslised anything was amiss.

What the heck does the mill do anyway??

Tunip, I did somehow get 20%.........their first email knocked me back so I told them I had recycled the packaging and would rather have the bits anyway.....lo and behold I got offered 20%!!!

What a lovely idea to order a baby ken for my DD so she can keep her mitts off mine bake all by herself. Must.....resist.........fails and digs out my flexible friend

Oh, how I love this thread!

Viv

You numpty - you HAVE the 280 you have a 288 from the 280 series yours is a 88 because it is black and chrome. KM280 will be white

and another model is silver