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Sashing and Cookies

I'm staying with my Mum and Dad this week, and Saturday is the annual Church Fete (St. Nicholas's in Barton-le-Clay if anyone fancies coming along). Mum and I run the cake stall. We also bake at least half of the cakes on it! The fete is Saturday, yesterday I stocked up at the supermarket and today I made a start:

48 jumbo cookies (6 batches) which we will sell individually
6 times the recipe for chocolate orange brownies - these are really delicious, but a bit of a pig to make: split the eggs, melt the chocolate, take the rind off the orange, juice the orange.... they take a while.
4 times the recipe for regular chocolate brownies (from the Hummingbird Bakery cookbook)
And four Polish cakes (not pictured), (as in  Polish from Poland, not polish as in furniture polish!) I don't think this cake has ever been near Poland! It's crushed digestive biscuits mixed with golden syrup, drinking chocolate and margarine, then topped with melted chocolate - mmmmmm

In between batches I've made a start sashing my Farmer's Wife quilt. My Aunt has been over this week. She does a lot of embroidery and a small amount of patchwork. SHe asked what my least favourite part of making a quilt is. This is it. I love seeing it come togther, but I hate all those long seams, and laying it out at home (with helping paws) is a nightmare. That's why I'll try and get as much done as possible whilst I'm at Mum and Dad's.

I'll be back tomorrow with more baking and a finished quilt!
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Cherie said…
Sounds like you've been having a fun time! Cookies and cakes are the best things to bake =D
28 June 2012 at 22:26
Nic said…
The quilt is looking great! The sashing colour really works

Yum, those cookies look good too. Have fun baking the rest
29 June 2012 at 06:39
Celtic Thistle said…
Hope you get good weather for the Fete, your cakes and cookies look delicious!
29 June 2012 at 07:49
Katherine said…
I've been following your farmers wife blocks for quite a while and that way you are sashing them with the little squares just sets them off beautifully.
29 June 2012 at 22:19
quirky granola girl said…
yay!! this is looking great!
1 July 2012 at 23:24
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