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The Cake and Bake Show (1)

We won a pair of tickets to the Cake and Bake Show at Earls Court, courtesy of Andrew Webb, editor of the very wonderful lovefood.com.

We weren’t at all sure of what the show would be like. We’re enthusiastic breadmakers and I’m (perhaps too) fond of pies, but cakes aren’t our forte. We needn’t have worried. It was great. In fact, one day wasn’t nearly enough to see all that we wanted and to attend all of the demonstrations that we would have liked.

Plus, to add a dash of celebrity to the proceedings, the contestants from The Great British Bake Off were there.

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Seed cake

Over the Christmas hols, we watched The Great British Bake-Off on iPlayer and were very charmed by it. Having no television, we rarely watch anything retrospectively, and certainly not a whole series. But something about this appealed. So (of course) I bought the book – Mary Berry’s Baking Bible.

I make good bread, but, as I’ve remarked before, my cake and pastry making is normally dismal. Maybe things will now take a turn for the better. Jean is very fond of seed cake, so I made one, although not before checking that it was a really simple recipe:

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