A friend and I spent a happy afternoon baking yesterday. As meetups go, what a great way to do something productive during the day, where you have lots of opportunity to catch up. Lovely. Even though the nutty loaves were not rested in the fridge overnight, and may have not come out of the loaf tins in in one piece, they were delicious. And the flapjacks superb. Who knew that orange zest could make them so tasty?
Not sure where the flapjack recipe came from, but the nutty loaf was from one of the Hummingbird bakery cookbooks. The picture was totally unassuming, and is not a recipe I would have ordinarily chosen, but it was worth it! Cooking apples in a lightly cinnamon-flavoured cakey loaf, with a few pecans and lots of walnuts, and melty hints of dark chocolate. Fresh from the oven was best - moist and warm. I'm very glad we made two! We had a slight disaster upon finding that the recipe requires that the batter be left overnight! Instead, we just put it straight in the oven - no harm done! (I guess it helps with allowing the wet parts of the mixture to settle, and may be why they didn't come out in one piece.) Impatience still allowed for delicious food though!
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Hummingbird Cookbook
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