Weekend Cooking: What I Baked in March

Welcome to this month's post about what I baked. If you could smell as well as read, you would smell a lovely banana bread baking away in the oven as I type this, but that will be ready to share (a picture of at least) next month. 

The first thing that I made was a new recipe to me - Lemon Poppyseed Cake. I found the recipe and took a snip screen capture of it when someone posted it in a Facebook group and said that it was a family favourite for 20 years. The only thing I can't remember which group! Ooops! It was very simple and tasty! Will make it again, and maybe put some cream cheese frosting on it as well.

I have been contemplating buying some new piping tips for a while now so I decided a couple of weeks ago to stop thinking and just do! Of course, then I had to make something to use them on! I therefore made some vanilla cupcakes and just played! What did I learn....that having better tools doesn't make me better at piping!

It is autumn here which means it is pear season. In the past, the main thing that I have done with pears is poaching them. When I was looking at the supermarket recipe magazine, the recipe that caught my eye was something called a Sugar Crusted Pear and Brown Butter cake. The recipe suggested to serve it with caramelised pears which I don't think was really necessary, but the pears themselves were delicious and I ended up having them on my cereal during the week which was a nice change. I will say that the sugar crusting was amazing - obviously not an everyday thing. I would make the cake again, and I would make the caramelised pears again, but I wouldn't make them together.

Weekly Meals

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Thursday: Out for dinner
Friday: Takeaway Friday

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