Dumpty Doo!

Failure is not my friend but I picked myself back up off the floor and carried on. At the end of the day it’s not about me, it’s about the Edmonds.

Thanks for the show of hands from the crowd. I also received a message passed through via a colleague from one of her friends telling me to pull finger. True, it needed to be said. Feel free to use the comments function of the blog so that all 5 people reading the blog can gang up on me together – more power to the people.

Monday – baking extravaganza. It was time to fill the tins and when the tins were full I also filled the ice cream containers. Thank god for ice cream containers – such a handy size.

Queen cakes – there are a number of these things in Edmonds – small cakes cooked in muffin tins with raisins in them.

I feel the need to rant. Please feel free to skip the following paragraph.

RAISINS! Always raisins. Raisin haters (that includes sultanas – a raisin by any other name…) of the world unite and throw off the shackles of oppression. One day I’m going to work for a cereal company and I’m going to start taking raisins out of products – they don’t need to be there, we don’t like them. If your product is called “tropical” don’t put raisins in there – they aren’t tropical. Put less fruit in there, I don’t care, just not always raisins!!! And capsicums, don’t get me started on capsicums!

So anyway, back to our scheduled program. Queen cakes. Nothing particularly queenly I didn’t think but I wouldn’t know, because I didn’t eat then, because they had raisins in them. Say no more.

Shewsburys. Not quite like the Cookie Bear makes – dumpty doo! They didn’t look too different – I made the holes with the lid off a vivid which I thought was a nice piece of creativity – but my homemade jam was far superior. I did make people assemble their own as my time is too precious to be spent as a shewsbury jammer. There were a lot of issues with people not managing to take one plain biscuit and one biscuit with a hole and I had to provide supervision.

Duskies – like afghans but with walnuts and coconut instead of cornflakes. Dollop of chocolate icing sprinkled with a little coconut. They were very pretty and pretty food leaves the tin fastest.

Date Shortcake – Like an apple shortcake but with dates in the middle. Was pretty good, didn’t go as fast as the Duskies but none was thrown out which is a good sign.

Macaroon Cake – This was good. Spongy, buttery cake with a coconut meringue topping baked ina shallow tin. I have come to have a deep affection for things baked in a shallow tin – not as fancy as a cake, more exciting than a biscuit. It was good. Plus as it had no raisins in I could eat it. And eat it I did…