Baking on a Sunday

In the spirit of the Jubilee and the Olympics and all things patriotic my work is holding a Great British Bake Off.  This means everyone who wants to take part must submit a cake on their chosen week, and in return they get to eat everyone else's entries and score them.  It's pretty simple and it means the for the next two and half months we will get cake at least once a week.  This is a good thing, not too good for my 'healthy eating, aren't you supposed to be running a half marathon training' but I'll just cut out eating rubbish else where in my diet (honest).

I may have brought a few too many supplies!

I don't want to say I'm competitive or anything but I want to do my best, and we have had some great entries so far.  Therefore I spent Sunday testing out a few recipes.  It's a good job I decided to have a test run because some of my creations tasted awful!  In honour of this momentous occasion I brought a new muffin tray from Sainsburys.  Using this I tried two different recipes, one for cupcakes and one for muffins and they both  tasted bad, really really bad.  They had a terrible chemical after taste which, it goes without saying, is not what I'm aiming for.  I soaked and cleaned the muffin tray before using it so I don't know if I can blame the tray or if it is just my terrible baking skills.  I did redeem myself in the end though by making a red velvet brownie cake thing.  I took the recipe from the blog The Londoner and I have to admit it was pretty tasty.  I didn't have a brownie tray so I just baked it in a cake tin but it still tasted good and looked good too.

My red brownie cake (ignore the muffins in the background, if we can just pretend they never existed it would be great).

So far this cake is in the running to be my submission for the work Bake Off, but I may test a few other ideas out this weekend too, so you'll have to wait and see what I finally come up with.