Baby christmas cakes

So this is the first attempt at making Christmas Cakes and these are to go into the Christmas hampers. I've used the recipe from the Good Housekeeping Baking Book, and put it into 6 baby tins (4.5'' ). There was a fair bit of cake mixture left over so I put the remainder in my smallest loaf tin.

I wasn't sure how long these would bake for as the recipe says 4 hours for a 9'' round tin. So I did them for 2 hours, making sure that I turned them and rotated them between the two shelves every half hour or so. I was paranoid about burning the sides so they had double layers of baking parchment on the sides and bottom, and a double layer of brown paper around the outside of the tins. All look good, tho a bit fragile as they're not very deep. The larger one in the loaf tin I cooked for about 2 1/2 hours.

GH Baking: Test 1 - Carrot cupcakes

Another bargain purchase from the cheap book sellers that do the rounds of workplaces, and now have the Good Housekeeping Baking Book. So I promised everyone a test bake.

And here we have - Carrot cupcakes.  The icing went wrong - was too runny as I didn't have quark (like cottage cheese apparently) so I just made up some buttercream icing and put some orange juice in it. Seems to work fine, and they didn't last long in the office. Only thing was they were quite big as I made 12 (as per the reciepe) but I think you could make six more and still have good sized cakes.