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Our class Shabbat is on Monday, so my three-plaited loaf will be left for five hours to defrost and rise and then cooked tomorrow.
This time I WILL take a photo (can't believe I was so lax last week).
The carrot cake was gone by the end of lunch. Fastest moving cake I have ever made.
Yes, making it was a faff, but I was complimented so much it was worth it. Although the icing was what people seemed to enjoy the most. Easiest part of the cake. It was moist though, and had a good flavour.
Turns out I did not overcook the challah.
It was eaten, which I did not expect (I scoffed most of my beer bread for example).
On Tuesday morning I was running late and went into work without breakfast. I figured I'd have challah - perhaps even toasted. It was gone!
Also, although I thought I'd overcooked it, all photos in our reference material showed it at the same colour I had achieved, and it was lovely inside. My recipe suggested it should be golden brown. No. It should be nut-brown. The colour of conkers. Done.
Coffee and walnut cake this week.
Another fave of the staffroom apparently
Weird - I thought they were all chocolate mad. They descend on it quickly enough. But they almost swooned over the carrot cake and are anticipating the coffee one with unseemly glee.
Makes me happy though.
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