Food, Glorious Food by Amy Treasure
Family-friendly food made easy
Baking with chocolate is one of my favourite things because no matter what you bake it’s bound to be a crowd pleaser. Last weekend I made a chocolate roulade for my son and his girlfriend who were joining us for dinner, and it was a safe choice because everyone likes chocolate dessert, am I right?!
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I love Easter, it’s one of my favourite times of the year with the promise of spring on the horizon, cute chicks, lambs bouncing around the fields, bright yellow daffodils and lots and lots of chocolate. My idea of heaven!
This turned out to be an absolutely MASSIVE bake and getting to the end result took a lot of ingredients, feel free to scale down or even half the recipe to suit your own requirements. I love making showstopper cakes; watching the family tuck into this was a bit like the chocolate cake scene from Matilda – it was that big. There was loads left over and that makes for happy builders in the Treasure household this week, I am the hostess with the mostess ;-)
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Today is my birthday!
I am the grand old age of 32 (whoops that’s my ‘lying’ age) I am actually 36 eeek! I only jest, I really love the age I am at the moment and the confidence and assuredness that comes with it.
I’ve had a lovely relaxed weekend and been thoroughly spoilt all week. My bestie Aby (You Baby Me Mummy) dropped me off a HUGE basket of presents a few weeks ago and I’ve had a gift a day for the last week, I honestly feel so blessed and lucky to have Aby in my life!
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If you asked me what books I read as a child Enid Blyton’s Famous Five along with anything by Lewis Carrol would feature heavily on my reading list with the complex and obscure tale of Alice in Wonderland coming out on top and becoming a life long love of mine and a book I’ve read (and tried to make sense of) again and again. I realise now that it is, in effect two books; one for adults and one for children. From what I can gather, Alice in Wonderland is the third largest best-seller in the history of publishing, behind only the Bible and the works of Shakespeare and that says it all really doesn’t it?
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For some reason, I have always been under the impression that baking a bundt cake would be incredibly difficult. One of my main concerns being that the cake would get stuck inside the tin, I greased mine well with butter and once cooled it turned out from the tin perfectly retaining all the detail. Phew!
Now I have my Tefal Cuisine Companion it makes short work out of making batter for cakes and so I want to try as many variations as possible and also challenged myself to bake once a week. We are always having visitors popping in and out and what’s nicer than being able to offer them a slice of homemade cake? Plus it helps make me appear a domestic Goddess when the reality is it most likely only took me a short amount of time to knock a cake up (shhh don’t tell anyone)
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