A Day of Baking

 Hello Everyone!
Today, I decided to do a bit of baking.
Baking is something that I actually love to do and even if I mess up a recipe, it's still fun to try and experiment.

When I woke up this morning, I thought that I would pay my Grandmother a visit and I must take after her as she loves to bake too! Recently, I've been going through some, let's just say 'stressful' situations, so me and my Nan decided to bake to get my mind off things.
First of all, my nan and I started to look through all of her cookery and baking books to find the perfect recipe for either a Rich fruit cake, or a Mince Pie. We ended up finding three books that all had recipes for Fruit cakes and Mince pies, but we just couldn't decide what recipe to use.

Two of the three books were actually my nans from the 50's, while one book was filled with more modern recipes. We really didn't know what recipe to choose, so we ended up incorporating all three recipes into the cake and mince pie.
My Nan has recently bought one of those free standing mixers, but she was quite scared to use it as she said, and I quote "I'm just not up to date with all of this techno sh*t". Good old Nan! Luckily, I quickly got the hang of it, and I taught my nan how to use it. Now she can't be scared to actually give it a go.

It has different attachments, which is really handy depending on what kind of batter you want to mix, which my nan was very impressed with! Maybe she can give the "techno" side of baking a chance!

We eventually baked our Fruit cake, and used loads of different ingredients, such as cherries, almonds, walnuts, dates and raisins.

Then, we got onto baking our Mince Pie. Even though it isn't Christmas, my nan still fancied a Mince pie. Why not?
And then, after all of the flour and sugar mess, we ended up with this!

Fruit Cake (Above) and Mince Pie.

It was a very eventful afternoon to say the least. And after a huge flour incident and a good laugh, we decided to cut the pie and cake and dig in!

Woo!! xx