Baking Monster

So, as mentioned in the previous post, the day before junior’s party was to be taken up with baking. It’s not so much the actual making of things that takes so long, it’s the waiting for them to cook and then cool down. The gingerbread men were first, all twenty odd of them, then the carrot muffins (which I could make with my eyes closed) and then mini disaster struck with the double chocolate chip muffins. I don’t make these particular muffins very often and I’d forgotten that they actually take a good 10 minutes’ longer in the oven than the recipe states. So soggy muffins soon became droopy muffins and could not possibly be presented to the world in that state! Another chocolate muffin recipe was found and everything was okay again. Coconut muffins followed and then I had to go and collect junior from school which put paid to any more baking for that day.
The next morning found me in the kitchen making chocolate brownies and then deciding that maybe there weren’t enough muffins and so making some lemon ones. The idea of shaping the muffins into the number five was abandoned and instead this is how they were laid out.

The lemon ones went down very well with the adults, so well in fact that I didn’t get the chance to try one although, of course, Sean did, and he pronounced them “yummy”.

Junior grabbed a carrot one and wolfed that down, followed by a chocolate one. She’d already had a couple of gingerbread men, a brownie and a banana so no wonder she was full of energy.
The only non vegan articles on the table were a couple of cheese pies supplied by the cafe for a ’savoury’ taste. Of course not many people eating the cakes and brownies knew they were vegan but they all pronounced them delicious which just goes to show that you can make great tasting cakes without using eggs or butter.