This arrived yesterday (and I have been waiting for this for ages! I preordered this in…early February, I think!). I received an email from Amazon saying they expected the package to be delivered on March 18. I waited, and waited and then Mr Postie came and it arrived! Let me tell you, I was doing tiny jigs of happiness inside!
This is my second Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook. I knew it was going to be worth waiting for the cookbook because the recipes are never-fail ones. As long as you stick to the recipe and have no major deviances from the recipe and the directions, the recipes always, always come out perfectly!
The first recipe I tried was the Chocolate Guinness Cake (I found it quite cute that it was St Paddy’s Day 2 days before and a pint of Guinness would’ve been a good drink to down on the day. Instead of drinking Guinness, I baked with it!). You might think I was being over-eager, but I’d waited for this book for absolutely AGES! I’d heard about the book late last year. And having used the recipes in the first book (where I got the pecan pie recipe and where I learned to bake my favourite kind of cake: lemon drizzle!)
Anyway, Saturday dawned lovely and sunny and…I WAS ILL! But I wasn’t about to let a little thing as an illness stop me from trying out the recipes in the new book (I’d bought all the ingredients the night before! I was that determined!). 2 hours later, there it was, that beauty of a chocolate cake, iced and dusted with cocoa powder. IT WAS DELICIOUS!!! The slice was so pretty that I had to take a picture!
So for anyone wanting to start baking, I would recommend getting either of the Hummingbird Bakery cookbooks because their recipes are so easy to follow!
Yellywelly 