Who's baking today?

[TheGoddessBlossom]

I have just made a raspberry dessert cake, chocolate obv! [bugrin] I think I might have left it in a couple of mins too long (our oven is ferocious), but it still looks delish. This is for the Easter tea party that the hospital where my mum lives is having.

Also making James Martin's white chocolate Easter cake that was in Closer Magazine that I bought that someone left lying around. And am also going to attempt to make my first lemon meringue pie this afternoon, but have cheated and bought a ready made pastry case. Both for tomorrow's Easter lunch at SILs.

Would love to know what other people are rustling up today, and sucesses and disasters!

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Thanks Unchartered, yes I didn't think it would hold its shape overnight (assuming I get it to have a shape that is!)

You should see the Easter cake - I let DS2 decorate it and it has about 75 mini eggs on it....it is hurting my teeth just looking at it.

it's this one by the way

Yummy yum yum! I've made Lorraine Pascale's chocolate brownies with oreos - they're OK, but I think I will substitute nuts & cranberries for the oreos next time, and make them a bit more adult. I've also made Jamie's toffee apple tart, and will make some millionaire's shortbread tomorrow as his recipe says 2 tins of boiled condensed milk, but the tart case only needed 1, so 1 tin of yummy caramel to spare!

I used my lovely kenwood K mix for the pastry, and I've made the best pastry ever! usually tart cases are a complete MARE for me; they break; the pastry shrinks and if I have a runny filling it ends up all over the bottom of my oven...but this one is perfect!

Finally I've made a chocolate mocha roulade, which will be filled with cream and chopped up chocolate coated coffee beans - well, there might be 1 or 2 left once I've stopped nibbling! I need to fill it and make a chocolate/ coffee sauce, which will be an excuse to open that bottle of kaluha I bought ages ago and add to it!

A most pleasant day of baking has been had, and I'm looking forward to the eating with friends over the next couple of days!

Petit that all sounds amazing!

Wish I read the reviews of my easter cake before making - am now really worried that it will a soggy mess when I cut into it. And wouldn't have put the mini eggs on tonight, as the dye has run into the icing a bit.

Oh well, sure the kids will like it.

I baked myself into oblivion yesterday, with a brioche loaf, Cornish Fairing biscuits and a batch of roti to go with our tarka dhal. Having a day off today, but will be making Cinnamon Roll pull-apart bread tomorrow :)

Your Easter cake looks fantastic! The colouring coming off the eggs will give it a sort of abstract, arty effect din't you think?

I once made a gingerbread house for christmas. It collapsed 2 hours after making it. It looked like it had been attacked with a wrecking ball.

Yes Petit, I think it will - am wondering if DH's family will be able to appreciate such things - as long as it holds up enough to be cut into actual slices and doesn't taste like vegetables (as one review says) I will be happy. [bugrin]

Isn't it frustrating that you can't try a cake before presenting it like you can with other cooking? Serving it with a slice missing just isn't the done thing is it?

Ninth wave - cinnamon rolls. They sound divine....

Half tempted to buy some dark choc and make another raspberry dessert cake tomorrow morning as it looked so good and didn't get to taste any as we left before they ate the cakes today at my mum's hospital!

Thank you dressdown. It sounds absolutely delicious so think I will be ordering that from Amazon.

Cassata and cannoli here!

I made Easter Nests with cornflake crispy cake and mini eggs [bugrin] I never bake so twas a first for me!

Cannoli???????

We made easter nests (crispy cakes with mini eggs on top) choc chip muffins with cadburys bunnies stuck on top and ds3 aged 11 made a victoria sponge --tastefully== decorated with green icing ,millions of sprinkles,chocolate drops,mini eggs and cadburys bunnies on top.

We also made an 'easter tree' yesterday- twigs with spring coloured sequines glued on stuck in a bucket of sand with chocolate eggs taped on,tacky moi?

[bublush]

More than welcome, Toeuffeta!

I've only had them once, Annunziata, from an Italian deli. I had the ones with choc hazelnut filling. Divine. Are they hard to make?

They are, aren't they?! I'm being exceptionally good and not eating any of them- saving myself for tomorrow!

It's a bit fiddly but not difficult. You need two or three people at least to make enough for a family though.