It's cool to eat cake
There was always 'something' in the tin to share with either expected or unexpected guests who dropped in for tea I still love that tradition and feel uneasy if 'there's nothing in the tin'. I adore baking cakes, biscuits, pastries, buns I love them all and feel so saddened that so many people have stopped baking simply because they can't resist the temptation if there's 'something in the tin'. Well look how gorgeous the domestic goddess Nigella Lawson is voluptuous, curvy and a wizard in the kitchen, she's made it so cool to make cup cakes again! Speaking of which, its ages since there has been a book on cakes, but a really serious tome of regional and traditional cakes has just been published by Grub Street Publishing. The author Julie Duff has been baking since she was a child.
She became hooked in her grandmother's kitchen where she spent many happy hours mixing, stirring and no doubt licking the wooden spoon as we did when we were children. Julie now runs an award winning cake business from her farmhouse in the Vale of Belvoir. She supplies cakes to some of the poshest addresses in the UK Fortnum and Mason, St Paul's Cathedral, Selfridges, as well as Henrietta Green's Food Lovers Fairs.
