Cooking 9/10ths of the time

This recipe looked particularly lovely, and I have a slavish devotion to ginger at any rate. I'm telling you right away, this is my favourite slice at the moment, knocking "the bus drivers' mother in laws almond slice" off the top. It is: 1. Easy to make 2. Smells good whilst cooking 3. Tastes VERY good indeed. I find that people who are ginger lovers are pretty fixated in general, I think that this one is a bit of a winner all round, but ginger-nuts.. this one's for you. I have a whole container at the moment, as you can see from the pic, Recipe 125 grams butter room temp 100g castor sugar 225g SR flour 2 tsp ginger Caramel icing 150g butter 230g icing sugar 80 ml golden syrup 1 1/2 Tbs ginger Preheat over to 180 Grease and line a 20 x 30cm lamington or slice tray. Mine is 17 x 27 for some crazy reason and I had no issue with that. Allow the paper to overhang the sides a bit. Beat the butter and sugar until pale and creamy. Ad...

I decided to adapt my pineapple, apricot and ginger cake from being a big ole cake into being smaller more eatier mouthfuls. Off I went into my gothic castle (victorian terrace) on the storm topped mount (carlton nth) to make myself a monster (muffin). With my faithful man servant Igor (Gabriel) I moved the very fabric of time and space (eggs and butter) and made my unholy union! (muffins!) Point being, it worked quite well I thought, and I love plain lemon icing, it is my absolute favourite, kind of a little bit icing-y and also a bit sour (plus crackly, what's not to like?) Lookit us! We're adorable!   So this gets me thinking, baking people, how many of our favourite recipes that come in the 12 inch mix can be reduced to a 2 min pop song. Am I labouring my metaphors too much? I can't help it, once I start mixing, everything gets involved, metaphors included! I'm going to see what else I can make into a muffin! Here's the recipe (From Comp...