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Light relief: A baking tour de force. 1-Jan-2018

1/1/2018

 
Back in my youth, there was a brilliant bakers on the corner of Junction road and Holloway road. They baked the most wonderful Black Forest Gateau; full of flavour, correct balance of cream, cherries, jam and sponge, all on a biscuit base.

Fast forward a few decades to the insipid cream based, overly sweet versions of today that has driven me to make my own Black Forest Gateau, following proper German based recipes.

I give you, on this grey and manky New Year's day, my 9" Black Forest Gateau. Mary Berry eat your heart out. GBBO here I come.

OK, not the prettiest of cakes, but then again the proof is in the eating.

Medical experts say that with long term treatment and counseling, those family members brave enough to sample this creation may make a full recovery.

Actually, as you can see from the last photo, the Black Forest Gateau - aka Crater cake - went down a storm.

Happy New Year!

Update: Crater cake was all eaten up by 3rd Jan 2018, with requests for more!

The sponge does not have any flour in it - just eggs, sugar and cocoa powder. Proper Bakewell tart is the same, except ground almonds used instead of cocoa powder.

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    A polite notice first: All photographs on this blog are owned by me and subject to copyright.

    Also, note that I have special permission to be on the Eversley quarry site of Fleet Hill farm, Manor farm and the Hampshire part, Chandlers farm. They are not open areas for general access.  Please keep to the public rights of way.

    I was quite fascinated to see how Cemex would restore their gravel extractions workings to become a nature reserve, and so started this blog.  There is an ulterior motive. It does mean that my partner and I get some well needed exercise as we stomp around the reserve every week.  Following the progress of the restorations does mean the walk is not as tedious as it might otherwise become.

    Don't worry about one of the archives being November 2025. You haven't entered a time warp! It's just that I've discovered a way to pin a post to the top of a blogger in Weebly; not straight forward apparently.  I have to set the date far far into the future.

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