by popular demand
Yummy Scrummy Carrot Cake (from the BBC Good Food cakes and bakes book)
175g light muscovado sugar
175 ml sunflower oil
3 large eggs
140g grated carrot (about 3 mediums carrots)
100g raisins
grated zest of 1 large orange
175g self-raising flour
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2tsp ground cinnamon
Frosting: icing sugar & juice from the orange
Preheat oven to 180 degC. Oil and line a square cake tin (18cm loose bottom).
Tip sugar into large bowl, pour in the oil and add the eggs. Lightly mix, then stir in the grated carrot, raisins and orange rind. Mix the flour, soda and spice, then sift into the bowl. Lightly mix.
pour into prepared tin and bake for 40-45 minutes until firm and springy. Cool in tin for 5 minutes, then turn out and peel off the paper.
When cool, beat the icing sugar with the orange juice and drizzle over the cake.
Enjoy !
tassels, pots and some art
On Tuesday morning we made tassels – got a bit tangled but it will all come good in the end. Lilian had made some papier maché bowls and decoupaged around the edge with pressed flowers. Thursday morning we did a bit of ink painting. In the afternoon we painted and did a bit of patchwork. Lots going on.
jeudi le 12 juin
Very hot here today but the barn was lovely and cool and some cool paintings were being done too
jeudi le 5 juin
some lovely water colours were painted this week
mardi crafts/art
There was a melange of different activities this morning, découpage, painting and papier maché
jeudi le 29 mai
I’m going through my ‘cow’ period. I was using acrylic like water colour on water colour paper. Andy was back and had been very prolific whilst in the UK, selling quite a few of his pictures, here’s one of his landscapes
mardi crafts
Here are the two bowls that were done using the paper strip method. It makes a much smoother bowl but apparently was much more time consuming. I think they are great. This is what the table looks like on a Tuesday morning
faire du vernis (French polishing)
This morning we had Richard show us how to do French polishing from scratch and also how to get out those cup marks on wooden tables. Nobody brought any of their furniture to use so I went and found some things from the house – and what a great result. Thanks everyone.
jeudi le 22 mai
A very animated afternoon with lots of different things being created. Painting, patchwork, crocheting and rug making
more rugs
Gill brought in her rug that had been started last year and not quite finished but she had been making this new shaggy using a cellular blanket as a backing – another ‘must try’
