tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post7714150930657534413..comments2024-03-25T22:59:30.053+00:00Comments on Desperate Reader: Stir up SundayDesperate Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-19879741331732348472011-11-28T15:57:10.078+00:002011-11-28T15:57:10.078+00:00Helen - once I get started I just keep going, but ...Helen - once I get started I just keep going, but it helps that I love cooking and especially baking. Your cake sounds a bit like mine but I have high hopes for it. I don't get out at all!Desperate Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-27122493269183231632011-11-27T20:36:43.870+00:002011-11-27T20:36:43.870+00:00How can you bake so much in one day? You must be s...How can you bake so much in one day? You must be some sort of superhero. If I cook one meal or bake one cake I have to rest for at least 24 hours...<br /><br />I missed Stir-up Sunday so pretended it was today. Because of you I have made Dan Lepard's Christmas cake, however I lacked many of the ingredients and am hoping that using plain flour will have been OK (and forgetting the bicarb, oops). It is a bit black on top because I omitted to check it (can you tell I'm crap at cooking?) but it looks like a sort of mad ruined castle and smells good, so it's not all doom. And boiling the sugar at the beginning and then adding the cream was really good fun! (I don't get out much.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-53543922543340297652011-11-22T21:44:12.913+00:002011-11-22T21:44:12.913+00:00Verity - I think it refers to both. It's a tra...Verity - I think it refers to both. It's a traditional German/Austrian cake in this case made with yeast and not unlike panatonne or brioche. It uses a bundt tin which according to wikipedia was originally a gugelhupf tin. Traditionally it's a birthday cake in Germany. It's growing on me, I made it after seeing a couple of others - Robin at Red Red Robin and Jane Brockett I think - and having cake envyDesperate Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-46025344095194975462011-11-22T12:15:06.255+00:002011-11-22T12:15:06.255+00:00That looks really impressive- you certainly had a ...That looks really impressive- you certainly had a good stir up Sunday. I've never made a gugelhupf - does that refer to the shape or is it a specific sort of cake?verityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01645380186218270629noreply@blogger.com