The Food Monologues

Last week I went to a carboot sale and came back with an old fashioned cooking book with some really cool recipes like battenburg cake. Tim likes marzipan alot, so he pressed me to make the cake and it went down rather well. Its an interesting recipe and involves quite a lot of excess cake bits once its made. Its one of the more difficult cakes that I have tried to make in a long time and I have been making quite a lot of cakes and pies recently. There was banoffee pie, pumpkin pie, chinese egg tarts, walnut and coffee cake, coconut loaf, batternburg cake, chocolate muffins, herby cheesy muffins, pork and onion pie, chicken and mushroom pie, date and walnut cake and chocolate and marble cake. All this in the space of a month - I guess I am making up for lost time.