February Week 3... Shapes Outside...

Hmm now this was a harder one so I've gone a bit abstract, here's the vegetable stall at my Thursday market in Penzance where I've just taken on being joint manager with a friend. I figured there's a few shapes here.

February Week 2... Shapes...Circles..

I was actually really looking forward to this week but I missed it in a flury of activity so now here's a slightly rushed post to try keep up.

So I've picked the easiest shape for a baker... a circle.

I'm going to start with a cake I made last week for one of my parents work collegues who wanted one of my mum's chocolate fudge cakes and he added 'with just more chocolate.'

So here's the finished cake, four layers of dark chocolate fudge cake with a creams chocolate frosting and handmade chocolate shards covering the sides.

And next we have todays new experiment.. welsh cakes. I've decided these are a hybrid of a cornish scone and an american pancake. Making these with my 3 year old niece was a laugh and they seemed to go down well. I guess these will be on the market list from now on.

February Missed weeks... My New Hobart Mixer

So I've missed a few weeks I know! I honestly dont know what happened I've been busy thats all I can say.

I'm going to catch up with my weekly posts hopefully tonight but for the time being here's what me and my amazing dad produced last night for the bakery...

This is an almost 80 year old Hobart mixer, Hobart are world renound in the baking world for being the best and most reliable mixer out there. Thay're also known for also supplying spare parts no matter how old a mixer is, can you see my attraction??

When I started out I brought a little mixer similar to a Kitchen Aid to mix my dough for me as it's painfull to make more than 3 loaves of bread by hand. This little mixer has been making funny noises for a few weeks now and with the increase in demand a new mixer was in the pipelines. I found this one for a bargin due to all the work that was needed.

So here's how we did it...

We started by scratching any old stickers off and giving a thorough de-grease. I'm pretty sure this had never been done by the amount layered onto the front of the mixer.

Next we have a sand down with a wire wheel.

Then more sanding down to get ride of any marks with wet and dry sand paper.

A quick clean then we moved on to masking up any pieces that we couldn't take off and a thin layer of primer. In for dinner to let the primer dry..

Now we have the fun part, the first layer of paint. What do you think of the colour?

Second Layer..

Our third and final layer, just fixing the ID plate back on.

And that's that. Easier and quicker than I thought and it looks almost brand new.