Tag: baking

punkfaery:

paul hollywood on bakeoff: now, i can see you’ve had a little trouble with your genoise sponge, haven’t you? the egg whites haven’t been whipped for quite long enough, and it’s lost some of that delicate, airy consistency, which means that your 10,000 spun sugar decorations haven’t got the solid foundation that they really need to support the handcrafted marzipan statue of the virgin mary that you’ve painted with edible gold leaf

me, shoving handfuls of reheated takeout pizza into my gaping maw: a rookie mistake

Baking day! Mum needed to bring a plate to a funeral, so I offered to make ginger biscuits so she didn’t have to go to the shops to buy something. These are the extras, the ones we’ll be eating ourselves. Maybe I’ll ice them with lemon juice/icing sugar if I’m feeling like it. Lemon icing on these is just aces.

This is one of my absolute tried and tested recipes. You can find it HERE. I halve the recipe, because with the half, I still wound up with 46. Though sometimes, if I’m making them just for me and Emma, I double the ginger, because they’re amazing with ten teaspoons of ginger in the half batch. Also, for those with dietary needs, we use White Wings Gluten Free Flour in place of wheat flour and they bake up just fine.