Delightfully dessert-ey
I’ve had a delightfully dessert-ey few days.
First I made a (gluten and lactose free) three-tier carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Plus a basic fruit trifle. Both turned out really well :)
Photo of a dining table (with a flowery table cloth) around which people are standing. On the table is a large cake with rustic cream cheese frosting and the numbers 5 and 0 stuck on top of it. Also on the table is a trifle bowl containing fruit trifle that’s topped off with vanilla custard.
Then yesterday I made two pies: one apple and one sweet potato.
I made the gluten free sweet pastry for these from scratch too.
Close up photo of an apple pie cooling on a rack. Behind the apple pie, and slightly out of focus, is a sweet potato pie.
The apple pie even featured an unintentional alien face :)
Close up photo of an apple pie that has three slits cut into it so steam can vent during baking. The slits are arranged in a way that looks like two angled eyes and a vertical mouth.
And since I had some leftover pastry, I made a few mini apples pies for good measure!
Photo of four mini open apple pies cooling on a rack on a kitchen counter.
Those turned out pretty well too.
Close up photo of a mini open apple pie with crispy, caramelised apples and a nicely browned crust. This pie is lying on a cooling rack, along with a couple of adjacent mini pies.
So yay for some successful weekend baking!