I’ve baked a lemon & ginger loaf; a chocolate & zucchini cake; a blueberry and ginger gateau and 4 dozen lemon and ginger cookies today, and, I have another lemon & ginger loaf to bake first thing in the morning and a raspberry and yogurt gateau for Friday….

Hungry? No, neither am I. It’s all in aid of the MS Cake Break Day – supposed to be Friday the 15th, but because we’re going hillwalking, I’m holding my cake bake tomorrow Thursday the 14th of April. If you’re interested you can buy a slice for a donation of £1 (or as much as you are willing to donate) and my cakes will be available from No. 36 – Julie’s B&B and from The Rug Rooms on Otago St.

I picked all new recipes for this exercise figuring that if I was going to invest 3 days in the activity (shopping; baking; and delivering) then it may as well be for something new. Now cookies you can taste quite easily, so I did. I’ve eaten about 9 of them throughout the day, and I can safely assure you that they are wonderful. Light, tasty and crisp. Exactly how a cookie should be. The cakes however are another story. I can’t really dig a hole into the cakes to test them out so they’re all still a bit of a mystery, except that is, the chocolate one. The chocolate cake I managed to a cut a sliver off just to make sure it was cooked all the way through. Not for me you understand, strictly professional. I think it was okay, very chocolatey – which can only be good. The rest I’ll just have to trust are ok. They’re all very dense. Definitely getting your moneys worth.

In between all this baking, I managed to dash out to the cinema to see ‘Sahara’. Definitely not an intellectual movie; definitely not an arty movie; but definitely lots of fun. For all the formula smiles, romance, and story, it wasn’t too badly affected and indeed was actually a great way to spend an afternoon between baking cakes.

Tomorrow is a Play, a Pie, and a Pint at Oran Mor with Robbie Coltrane. Strange thing is, while I was waiting for my last loaf to cool down this evening I switched the box onto ITV3 and there he was, Robbie Coltrane in ‘Cracker’. Strange no?