Cookery challenge for July

This month's challenge :

A dish from your current favourite recipe book.

This in itself was a challenge for me on two counts, as I love looking at and buying cookery books. My dilemma was which book and recipe do I choose! As I am trying to de-clutter and reduce the items in the house I now borrow a cookery book each month from the local library.

This month I borrowed the Great British Bake Off - How to Bake. It is based on the BBC TV series where 12 homebakers compete against each other to win the title of "Great British Bake off, Best Amateur Baker". The book contains lots of fail safe recipes and many hints on how to improve your baking. On Fridays, ever since the children were small I generally bake a teatime treat for the weekend. This time I chose Easy chocolate fudge cake and have used it for this months cookery challenge!

I always prefer simple and easy recipes because although I enjoy cooking I am quite busy, and have many things to do. The recipe is easy and quick to make as most of the ingredients for the sponge go into the food processor and are quickly mixed together.

 

Even at this stage it looks good, if you like chocolate as I do. As I was making it I suddenly noticed that someone else was interested in what I was baking. I just had to take this photo and share it with you! Daisy is not allowed any chocolate, but I suppose she can always  hope and dream....

The icing is very easy to make too as everything is put in a bowl over a saucepan of boiling water to melt and with all the ingredients melted together I didn't have the problem of overcooking the chocolate.

The final result didn't look quite as good as the illustration in the book but it was tasty and the glass stand and the tin were soon empty! The recipe can be found here.

The aim of the cookery club is all about fun, nurturing ourselves and loved ones and trying new things in our kitchens. It's not about being expert chefs, perfect or competitive. Just supporting and inspiring each other. Thank you to Lucent Imaginery for organising the cookery club challenges. I do enjoy trying new recipes and this one I will be making again as it was so popular.

This months participants are :-

Lucent Imagery http://www.lucentimagery.com/ (cooking club host)
Bakery Bookery http://www.bakerybookery.blogspot.com/
Down by the Sea http://downbytheseadorset.blogspot.co.uk/
Anything Squirrel Squirrel http://anythingsquirrelsquirrel.com/
Chi Garden http://chigarden.com
Under Lock & Key  http://trishiekoh.blogspot.com

  

Sarah x