Event Report: Fruit & Flowers

We had another fab meeting last week with the Fruit and/or flowers theme.  We had 6 bakers again with one newcomer.

I ran out of time to make the elderflower mascarpone layer cake so I went for a Waitrose magazine recipe, Peach, cherry & almond cake with elderflower syrup:

Sharon made this lovely spiced currant & orange blossom loaf cake:

Lynda made an unusual but delicious gooseberry fool tart with a cakey pastry:

Laura made a decadent dark chocolate cake with raspberries:

Lyndsey made these lovely moist Lemony lemon blondies:

And Pamela made this scrummy light Elderflower & raspberry cake:

Next Event: Fruit & Flowers

Our next theme is Fruit & Flowers, a lovely summery theme which should be an easy but interesting one.  We'll hopefully have lots of mew members as our WI ladies are officially joining us after signing up at the last meeting.

We'll be meeting on Sunday 31st July, 7:30pm at a venue TBC.

Image source via Pinterest

There are plenty of things you could bake for this theme, fruit or flowers or both can be included and as always, sweet or savoury, cake or tart, biscuits or meringues... anything goes as long as it's baked.

A few ideas for inspiration:

Elderflower Lemon Mascarpone Cake (Someone please make this, it looks awesome!  Actually, I think I will!)

Orange Almond Cake with Orange Blossom Buttercream

Berry Lavender Cake

Rose & Basil Dark Chocolate Macarons or Lavender & Dark Chocolate Macarons

Fig Frangipane Tart

Crispy Prosciutto Cups with Goat Cheese & Figs

Again, I've pinned a few more fruity and/or floral ideas on our Pinterest Baking page.

If you'd like to join us, please email Becky with your choice of bake.  As usual, it is first come, first served when it comes to your choice.  If someone else has already chosen it, you'll be asked to choose something else.  Please can I ask that you only email if you are going to come as we had to ask someone to choose an alternative bake last time but the other baker didn't show up on the night.