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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.

GeraldineMumsnet · 05/01/2010 15:28

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

GeraldineMumsnet · 05/01/2010 15:38

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

GeraldineMumsnet · 06/01/2010 12:40

Yes, we hope that anyone who wants to will bake at same time as Dan, and he'll answer questions as we go along.

Once they're in the oven, he'll answer more questions.

Clear as the driven sludge snow? Thankfully, Dan has done this type of live baking/webchatting thing before.

GeraldineMumsnet · 06/01/2010 12:58

Reckon Dan will have to bow to your superior multi-tasking skills

OliviaMumsnet · 08/01/2010 10:41

Hello

I am sure my DH would love me to be able to make sourdough, it's one of his fave things ever - but have never tried even basic breadmaking since our breadmaker some years hence (now on permanent loan to a mate as twas woefully underused) - Dan, please can you tell me how hard it is to get started?

((I'm also really just posting to mark my place. I have marmalade and hoping that I can get things vaguely ready when DS goes to sleep shortly so I can bake along. ))

OliviaMumsnet · 08/01/2010 11:42

LOL at TeamEdward
Nothing like muffins with greatness thrust upon them!

Right, I have no cinnamon and cant go and get as DS sleepin'
Any thoughts to alternative? I have allspice??

OliviaMumsnet · 08/01/2010 11:50

LOL at us TE!
??Go without? Think that's what I'm gonna do wrt to the cinnamon.
The marmalade will add a certain je ne sais quoi, won't it?

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 11:52

Dan's here and we're live from Carrie's kitchen (the Towers only has a kettle). Just getting the oven warmed up and assembling ingredients.

We're going to try to twitpic some pix as we go along and will put them on this page and on our Facebook page later too.

Dan has got some answers to questions you've asked, so he'll post them in between baking.

He'll be online shortly to say hello.

OliviaMumsnet · 08/01/2010 11:55

Still assembling ingredients and a woman's prerogative is to change her mind so have gone with allspice.

(and yes, I know am jumping gun here we don't start until 12, but am snowed in at MN's country outpost today and making most of sleeping child)

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 12:03

Dan's making carrie's (amazingly tidy ) kitchen his own

OliviaMumsnet · 08/01/2010 12:04

Guimave, can't you mug a snowmn?!

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 12:04

oh good grief

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 12:10

Dan says if you don't have carrots - courgettes or parsnips are absolutely fine and give it a good flavour (he's just added the salt to the flour).

He says Pollymum's recipe is really good because has lots of carrots (v healthy).

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 12:16

Dan's grating the carrots (doesn't peel them) into a separate bowl and next going to add the apple (grates whole thing and stops when he gets to the core - he says it's v quick and easier on the fingers, grating-wise).

Next he's going to beat 2 large eggs into the carrot/apple mixture and adding the oil.

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 12:17

Mme Lindt - your DC are at same point as Dan

He has just added the flour mixture (flour, salt, cinnamon) to carrots etc and mixing everything together.

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 12:19

CarrieDaBabi, Dan says plain flour fine with pinch of baking powder.

OliviaMumsnet · 08/01/2010 12:21

Oh dear
I just slung eggs and oil straight into magimix.
Have gone into oven but just realised I haven't checked timer at 12.15 by oven

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 12:25

Dan now using his mum's 'two-spoon technique' to fill the muffin cases. Just about to put them in oven and then he'll be back online in a sec.

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 12:52

Dan's going to quickly make a second batch of the mixture using the bundt tin this time. (He's clearing up as he goes along.)

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 12:59

Lovely smell wafting through kitchen

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 13:05

our first batch out! second one going in.

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 13:09

Dan just let slip that he was David Hockney's cook for a year in Malibu (not Bradford)

OliviaMumsnet · 08/01/2010 13:22

Mme Lindt, I was going to try the marmalade glaze which I think is icing sugar and marmalade - can Dan give us some pointers on how best to do please?

OliviaMumsnet · 08/01/2010 13:25

Snigger - lol at your AIBU post.

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 13:31

We've caved in and about to start scoffing the muffins

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