I called in sick today because I got up and my head was absolutely pounding and I felt absolutely horrible. Nevertheless, I soldiered on. I jumped into the shower and went through the motions and got ready for work. 30 minutes into my morning rituals, I just sank into bed and said to myself that I was well and truly too ill to even finish getting ready. I got back into my bed clothes and dived back into bed. I got up after a couple of hours and only to call in sick. I didn’t feel human until nearly lunch time.
I forced myself out of bed and tried to just sit up. I knew that the longer I stayed in bed, the more I would feel horrible. I knew my body well enough. If I gave it a chance to wallow in illness it would wallow until it was well and truly pruney! So I got up. I thought I’d do a spot of baking because baking always made me feel better. Although, as an afterthought, I was breaking an unofficial rule that I followed: never to cook or bake when I’m not feeling well (whether it was illness or just a general tiredness)! I thought doing a spot of recipe development would help me feel better.
I’ve been trying to develop this base recipe. So far, it’s worked for banana bread, blueberry cake, and apple sauce cake. I recently baked a lemon and poppy seed cake and had a few leftover lemons and loads of poppyseeds so I thought I’d bake another lemon and poppy seed cake. I had this great idea that I’d try making mini lemon and poppy seed bundt cakes using my lovely mini-bundt cake tin. I’ve only used it once, making my Lola Lucing’s torta cebuana (which reminds me, I need to try making them again!).
So off I went and baked. I think they turned out quite well, except the seemed to be a tiny bit drier that I wanted them to be. I think the tweak needs to be that the temperature needs to be a bit lower and there needs to be more syrup for the cakes to soak in. But otherwise, they looked adorable! I didn’t necessarily feel better after baking because I felt even more shattered if that was at all possible. I’m not exactly going to complain though because I made 12 beautiful mini bundt cakes and 4 cupcakes as a result!
Yellywelly 