bread machine sunflower & honey loaf

Our Panasonic bread maker comes with a recipe book. I use it most of the time, but only for the simple recipes. Early on we'd had an issue with a seeded recipe when there was smoke and a dreadful creature at the bottom of the tin at the end. Since then, we haven't attempted anything too adventurous. I tried the sunflower and honey recipe last week and have made it again and again. It's delicious.

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.