"NO FAIL!"

Day 2 (25/4/11)

Today is Anzac day (as well as Easter Monday!) so what more fitting than to make Anzac Bikkies, page 34. I have to say, I haven’t EVER made Anzac Biscuits but they are super quick and easy and I got an awesome result….although after reading a thread on trade me, perhaps I just got lucky??

I was going to make Hot Cross Buns from the Edmonds book, page24, but I was easily distracted by a thread, again, on trade me. “no fail” it says…..  it seems, for me and a lot of other people, it would be correct.  I used high grade flour because that’s all I had and yeast with a yellow lid, not the “red lid” the recipe calls for….i didn’t let it rise overly long and figured, I’d just chuck it in and hope for the best….4 people tried them and they all said they were pretty good, although hubby said they needed more spice….i did under measure the spice because I though a tablespoon of both mixed spice AND cinnamon seemed a lot, seems I was wrong. Given the circumstances I would say a positive result!

A better effort today than yesterday and feeling a little bit more motivated to try again…

So once my baking was done and dusted and all was cleaned up, I started dinner, which got me wanting to do something with the apples I have and since we have guests staying i thought it might be nice to make a dessert to go with my chicken soup starter and hubby’s steak meal, so off I went, to the index to “apples” Apple Aread…Apple Shortcake... Apple pie!! Yes, apple pie sounds divine! I prepared the apples as it said, but rather than make one big pie I decided to make 6 individual ones.  What a hit! They looked gorgeous!  It was hard straying from my usual recipe of bit of this spice, bit of that spice, butter, brown sugar etc…but they tasted pretty traditional, a lot like apple strudel mix I thought, but not bad!

I passed the book to my friend and said,  pick something, it didn’t matter what.  She picked Gingerbread loaf page 29….could be interesting!