Boiling broonie. Pleas do not post on this thread.

gracesmum Only you would notice that as well!

[tongue sticky out emoticon]

(we're supposed to be listening to Esther)

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Me and my daft rubbish!

Have just got back from babysitting the GC and now have been tempted to make this,it sounds so good I can nearly smell it

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It's alright again now.

It's smells even nicer the next day!

It gets better and better, carol.......

I seriously doubt whether it will be allowed to get better Butternut. Think I'll be making more this weekend.

Now waiting for it to cool....quick question, Jingl; had to add a bit more flour, so am wondering if my measuring cups are a bit lacking. Bought them in the states some time ago. I usually calculate about 4oz per cup? Ta.

ariadne, my American measuring cup holds five ounces of flour, full to the brim.

Mine also comes to 5 ounces.

OK ...I'm not going to post either

But pleased to here the gluten free flour worked ...note to self to get some!

Well, it worked with the extra bit of flour. Tastes gorgeous. But thanks -it's obviously the extra couple of ounces that was/were needed, and I'll remember 5oz in future. It is now sliced, sandwiched with baking parchment so we can have one slice at a time, and going into the freezer. I AM NOT safe with fresh cake in the house.

I was wondering why my waistband was feeling a bit tight...

Ariadne, ask Butternut. It's her recipe, not mine!

Ariadne, have you ever eaten frozen cake? It's nice.

Freezing cake doesn't work with me either jingl - I'll eat it anyway!

Yep! There's no escape from temptation!

(you have to be careful not to dent the kitchen table when you force the knife in)

DD2, who is planning to inherit my kitchen table , says she wants it to look used so I don't worry about dents.

Baggy in my family I 'inherit' all my (adult) children's old furniture while they get to buy matching new stuff.

I've always though that if kitchen tables could talk, what tales they would tell!

I am definitely up for dozy bat of the week. (See my post about the half cucumber) I took the measuring cups out of the dishwasher just now; they are silicone and can be collapsed for storage. When I opened the 1 cup measure out, I realised I hadn't opened it fully yesterday, hence the paucity of flour....

Hahaha - that's just the sort of thing I would do! x

We all have our moments!

I'm not really posting this either, AND I wasn't going to bother to make a Christmas cake this year, BUT has anyone seen the recipe in Nov 'Good Housekeeping'? I have bought the ingredients.... it sounds like a posh 'Boiling Broonie'.... Baking tomorrow!

I saw that recipe OGM. I was going to make it (they reckon it's the easiest one yet) but it needed Amaretto almond liquer. I looked online and it was so expensive. So I made my usual one. Did you use Amaretto? Wonder what it's like to drink as there would be a fair bit left over. I could make a second one.