You Know You’re Feeling Better…

… If you feel like making a few cakes.

(And you’ve received some lovely home-made jam with which to fill them).

I made soup for lunch too! (Two wins today).

Also (less of a win, more of a ‘sin’) I have treated myself to some new cake tins. (They haven’t arrived yet). Because, I have been mildly fed-up for many years with allegedly ‘smart’ cake-baking tins that go all rusty in their tight little non-stick ‘we’re the best’ rolled up edges.
I line the tins so it’s not the end of the world to manage the rust…
But today, I thought, ‘I am a grown-up sensible (?) woman. I need my cake-tins to be functional and clean. I’m in charge (of my cake-tin drawer). And rust is a thing up with which I shall no longer put’.

As it turns out it’s MUCH more of a challenge than you’d think, to find cake tins (with removable bottoms) without a rolled edge. (Assuming they even show illustrations of the tins without blooming cake in them! What did they think we wanted to put in them? A tasteful display of Wensleydale? Honestly).

I like a challenge. So. I found some and have treated myself to a pair of seven AND eight inchers. And they cost a pretty penny.
Then I threw caution totally to the wind (for free postage) and bought a brownie tin too.
I might need a little lie down.