Gingerbread

On the 1st of February I made some Gingerbread from the BBC Good Food website. It didn't really work but it still tasted fairly nice.

Ingredients:
140g unsalted butter
100g dark muscovado sugar
3 tbsp golden syrup
350g plain flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
pinch of cayenne pepper (optional)

To decorate
50g icing sugar
a few glace cherries (we used undyed)

My tips

• You might want to add another egg because it doesn't stick together very well.

My review
I would never ever do this recipe again, it was a complete disaster. It started off okay, then i had to roll it this is were it all went wrong. I started rolling it and it just cracked...and cracked...and cracked. In the end I just got my mum to do it for me. We ended up having very thick ginger men. I accidentally put a tiny bit of ground cumin in instead of ground cinnamon (oops). Even though the recipe wasn't very good it still tasted really quite nice. I actually had quite a few pieces which is not normal.

Brilliant Bread

On monday the 10th I made a loaf of plain white bread. I found this recipe on the bbc good food website.

Ingredients:

• 500g strong white flour
• 7g sachet fast action dry yeast
• 1 tsp salt up to 350ml
• a little sunflower oil

My tips

• Make sure you don't put too much flour on only enough so it does not stick.
• You have got to grease the bowl enough so it does not stick.

My review
The bread was really nice. I had 2 pieces when it was ready. I found the kneading really hard. It kept getting all sticky, I got loads on my hands.When it had to double in size it did it really quickly, proboly because it was a hot day. The recipe was very complicated. To make the bread it took me 3 hours. Everybody loved the bread. It was a huge sucsess even though we hadn't made it before.