24 January 2010

a gray day

It was very gray on the allotments today: from gray skies...

to gray wellies:

Luckily we had a zingy lemon cake to perk things up! Our Seed Store Cafe traybake-of-the-week was Mary Berry's Iced Lemon Traybake:

The recipe was nearly the same as that for my favorite Lemon Drizzle Traybake, just substituting a lemon glacé icing for the crunchy drizzle topping. Super-light and lemony with a terrifically tart top and (after the debacle last week) no sinkage! The perfect way to get over a gray day.

15 comments:

  1. All the grey is getting rather dreary! That cake does look yummy though, and I like the boots!

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  2. Right, I am buying that book! I adore lemon cake in any shape or size!

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  3. We ventured up to ours yesterday - and there were some new allotmenteers up there, hurrah! Perhaps I'll have an excuse to make gardening cakes soon ...

    We did some harvesting - chard & kale - and I tried a bit of weeding but even thought the soil was soft and lovely it was still freeeezing!

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  4. Lemon cake sounds just the thing for getting over gray!

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  5. I love the sound of your allotments - gardening is so much more fun with friends and cake! :)

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  6. I would like to stand up and say that the napkin, with its cheery polka dots, is quite delightful as well! D x

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  7. The icing on the cake reminds me of the snow that covered the allotments only a few weeks ago. From white to grey to...well I wonder what colour will come next?

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  8. Yummy! Our gray has been replaced this morning by white - yep, it's snowing again!

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  9. Just what you needed for a gray day. Your cake looks delicious.
    theprairiegirl.com

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  10. I like to think of it as a kind of scandinavian type of day - all those stylish cool greys...

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  11. Your cake looks yummy must have really cheered the day up!

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  12. Looks like a delicious lemon cake, and I too love the polka dot napkins!

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  13. nice nice GORGEOUS wellies...

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