Well, the Honey Jumbles were a fail. Or rather, a learning opportunity.

Several things added up to a less than brilliant biscuit:

- The bicarbonate of soda was old. I used some from a big box, and I think it had lost its leavening properties.

- When the recipe said to “roll each quarter of the dough into a sausage 1 cm thick”, my measurement must have been out. Very big Honey Jumbles! Which might have lead to the next problem…

- I slightly underbaked the biscuits. They are tricky - over bake them, and they become too hard, but they are very soft straight out of the oven, and firm up quite a lot overnight. Another two minutes or so next time.

- The icing was slightly too thick for easy spreading, and I misjudged the strength of the new food colouring, leading to a very unappealing colour on half the biscuits! “Rose Pink” was the desired colour - not the unfortunate “Antacid Medicine Pink” I ended tinting!

In the words of Cherish from “Bake Off:The Professionals”
“Cha la la la, I did not enjoy eating this at alllll…”

But never mind. I’m going to try again. Determined to conquer the #HoneyJumbles !
#Baking #cooking #BakingFail #biscuits #GreatBritishBakeOff #BakeOffTheProfessionals

So while I was watching #BakeOffTheProfessionals , partner was seeing if my (mostly unused, 7 or so year old) laptop could be made into a dual boot machine (windows/linux)...in the end, we have another #Linux box.

I don't mind, everything was completely backed up before the experiment, and this was always a possibility. Next year we'll look at maybe buying a cheap #Windows laptop if we find we really need one.

#computers #DualBoot

Oh, my! I thought “The Great British Bake Off” was fabulous for the armchair baker, but then my partner found me “Bake Off The Professionals” and it’s next level.
So much out of my reach (sugar ribbon work? Not in my kitchen! Fireworks?! Noooo!) But I’m seeing things I would never know existed.
#BakeOff #BakeOffTheProfessionals