Norwegian Mountain Loaf

Cruising through all the recipe books I found this one. She recommended baking it in a silicon break tin, and altho' I used one, I won't do it again – I felt that the bread ended up being to wide and would have been a better shape if I'd baked it in a regular tin. It's deliciously nutty and has both sunflower and linseed in it which is delicious. I'll definitely make it again soon.

nutty seeded wholemeal bread

So I am on a mission to make a delicious, seeded loaf that has just enough sweetness and seeds in it to fill a nostalgic void in me. ha ha! Not sure if it's possible.
In the meantime, I've made a recipe I that was passed down to me by my aunt - it uses buttermilk and honey.
Today I'm trying Nigella's Norwegian Mountain loaf - there are tons of seeds in it, but it doesn't have honey in it.
Once this loaf is eaten I will try another one - possibly with rye flour.

cake sale at school : cupcakes

Year 1 held their fundraising cake sale on Friday. Instead of doing crunchies or flapjacks I went for something straight down the line - cupcakes with butter-cream icing. Thanks to Janine Rose, whose cupcake decorating evening I went to some time ago, I whipped up two dozen vanilla cupcakes and used up all the left over butter-cream icing that was in the fridge (pink & white). Calvin decorated them with smarties and marshmallows. We sold everything and had excellent contributions. I think we made £87.00 on the day which is fabulous.

toffee apple tower cupcakes

Australian Women's Weekly have given us the gift of a wonderful book on cakes, cupcakes and cookies. most of them are pretty ostentatious, and the photograph of this particular recipe is no exception. That being said, now that the actual cupcakes have been made, they are deliciously-scrumptious with their heavy handed helpings of grated apple and maple syrup. Huzzah!
Now all I need to do is make the icing and I can photograph them and post here.