The Bake Off!!

Hello oooo...

I did promise Vanessa on my Instagram post that I would type this out 'soon'. But I honestly didn't assume soon would have been this late... lol... so here we are today 😄, better late than never...

So some friends and I agreed to have a bake off!! It was fun!! It was tiring! Mehn, you should have seen us making excuses on who should make the filling or who should make the cut outs or who should whip the batter or make the dough... who should be the student and who should be the teacher who doesn't get involved too much so the student can learn properly... loolll... My goodness it was fun! And tiring, I can't underestimate that...

So with the help of Google and all those lovely links, the confidence Chizzie and Doro, and Dexter placed in me as the 'teacher' for the day and the awesome teamwork from 4 and a half individuals and our families, tada-aaaaa!!! Presenting (Drum roll) the works of our hands from about 3kgs of flour, almost 12 hours of baking bonding, babysitting and so much more!!

The shot from the top is blurred, true, but made a good 'header' in the Layout app because of how I took the shot.

You can see our initial set up, middle left, which includes, but is not limited to, our tools and ingredients.

Next to this shot is the final display of what was left at the end of the bake off, taken at a different angle from our 'header'.

What follows (middle right) is our first set of cakes... lol... which I like to call surf cakes because they all came out slightly slanted because we left the fan on in the oven to improve heat circulation. It really did improve it, but it also gave us this unexpected slant... lol... It's pretty interesting when we all get to learn something new in a bake off. So now, I know how to make surf cakes... lol... and by clicking here you would also know what else went into the making of these surf cakes #allsmiles 

(Disclaimer: if you Google surf cakes and do not find this, please know I made it up because of the way they looked and people like surfing in my current location).

The shots at the bottom are all close ups of what was left at the end of the Bake Off. Yes, we did munch some of it along the way and children do love a snack or two during Bake Offs so please bear with us. lolol... Luckily, however, everything we baked is featured here 😊

Our Sweets

So in the bottom left picture, we have brownie cakes, and then brownie buns by the Milo-d surf cake. Below that we have our famous apple pie! There's a story to that which will go with the Apple pie post later on. By the apple pie we have the heart shaped surf cake that was baked with raisins... mmmm... delicious!! In the same green plate we have the last surviving apple tart... lol... and some oversized funny looking chinchins that were made from mixing the remaining apple pie dough and filling. Above that in the bluish bowl, we have the plain surf cakes... I love these surf cakes... watch out for the post and know what it really was supposed to be... #giggling

Our Savouries

On to the next picture, we will skip the green and bluish bowls and show you the quiche we made. These quiche are minced beef quiche. The only difference between the two is that ones at the back were baked in larger baking moulds.

The last picture in the 'matrix' features minced beef pie on the cooking foil. My goodness!!! That pie was so heavy, I really should have weighed it if I had taken my scale!! Aside the surrounding crust, we just have minced beef and some veggies in there. I will talk about them too in a subsequent post.

The heart shaped beauties are also quiche, just that it was baked with only its base being made of dough. The rest is pure quiche filling and I love the way its shape is maintained and I have less crust-carbs to deal with... lol... If you look carefully, you would notice with the heart shaped quiche, some look really yellow. Well, the yellow ones are chicken fillet quiche. The darker ones are minced beef quiche like the others in the previous picture. The disparity in both kinds of quiche tickle me because I remember being taught as a child that 'yellow' in Twi (a Ghanaian language) is akokɔ sradeɛ which literally means chicken fat. It's just interesting for me, but honestly, those chicken fillets looked absolutely fatless. Hmmmm... makes me wonder...

The last set of bakies are our chicken pies. I am told they are Cornish pies because of the fold, yet to verify but so cool... really cool... these are our Chicken Cornish pies. Yum!

Now, having typed out all that, it dawns on me how much we baked that day! Eeessshhh... no wonder my energy was gone gone. This is such a long post!!

So congrats to Chizzie and Doro, we pulled off this forever planned bake off!! And yes, you were awesome 'students', when we are rich and famous we can say this was our first bake off for the record. It was just a very beautiful experience for me, guys, thank you... Dex & Chizzie, thanks for having us over, you were wonderful hosts...  God bless...

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