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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.

OliviaMumsnet · 08/01/2010 13:35

LOL at Gerry's Will power
One of mine won't make the glaze, as DS 21months keeps pointing to the cooling rack and saying "mummy! cake! down!" and when I said it was too hot, he said "blow it mummy!"

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 13:36

Icing/glazing - Dan's going to make and shout out instructions for me to post to speed things up.

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 13:42

So Dan's taking 150g icing sugar - sieve is best for getting rid of lumps, but can use a mixer.

He's adding about 50g of marmalade and beating them together to a paste.

Also adding about 1tsp of water - only need a v little amount of water.

As you keep mixing, the sugar dissolves and starts to get runny.

Just finding a plate so we can show off the finished product.

Dan says better to ice them directly on the plate and trick with icing is teaspoon and small knife.

He's putting 1 tsp on top of each muffin and spreading with knife.

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 13:44

Now he's putting a tiny blob of marmalade on top of each one ("like a jewel")

For a glaze, do exactly the same thing but put the icing on hot muffins (ie straight out of oven) and it will melt.

If the muffins have cooled down, heat the icing up gently in a saucepan and brush that over the top.

OliviaMumsnet · 08/01/2010 13:44

LOL at bundt in Carrie's cupboards but no plates

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 13:51

Ponymum, are you still there? Dan says more like 25.

OliviaMumsnet · 08/01/2010 13:55

Sorry isn't the marmalade with the sugar a "glaze"?
My muffins have been cooling, so now what?

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 13:58

Olivia, Dan says icing when cold but if it melts on (IYSWIM) it's a glaze.

OliviaMumsnet · 08/01/2010 14:01

Sorry didn't mean to be needy
Thank you

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 15:03

Just got back to the Towers - fab pictures on profiles. Thank you

GeraldineMumsnet · 08/01/2010 15:13

FaintlyMacabre - sorry, only managed to get them on Twitter during, just about to resize and add to our page and put on Facebook etc.

BigTech took some lovely video that he's editing just now.

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