Bake Swap Sent

When Vonnie of Blotted Copy Book suggested a bake swap on crafteroo, I couldn't resist. The instructions were to bake something, decorate a recipe card and add something else.

I thought this would be really easy and excluding the baking bit - it was. However the problem started when I came to bake my goodies. The recipient of my parcel was Bronwen and she likes brownies, so I thought I would make her some - nice and simple. However I made 2 batches and both looked awful! Tasted great and my little girl loved them, but not good enough to send.

I'm still not sure what went wrong but I think I might have been making the oven too hot. A while ago we had a new kitchen and having never brought an oven before, I didn't really know what I was looking for. Once the oven was in, I realised that the temperature knob goes in jumps of 20 - not very precise!

However by the time I realised it might be the temperature, I'd got disheartened and decided to make Lemon Ricotta Cake instead. This turned out lovely & hopefully Bron liked it.

I will post the recipe at some point as I was running late for the post by this time, so Bron didn't get the recipe.

However I am really pleased with how the other bits of the package turned out. I made Bron a little book to keep all those recipes that get cut out of magazines etc. The book was made out of 6 C5 envelopes stuck together with a hard front and back cover and ribbon to tie. I then made 4 little cards to put in the first envelope and wrote a recipe for brownies on one & my all time favorite fruit cake on the other.

The recipe cards each have a little bit of ribbon on the left had side to act like a divider.

I also added a couple of little recipe books to the parcel.

Since doing the recipe holder for Bron, I've had lots of ideas of other things I could do the envelope books for and my mum has already asked for a recipe one for her best friend.

I was going to post the details of the lovely things I received from NickyNackyNoo but I made the mistake of trying to buy some things from the Next sale and so far its taken 3 hours and I've still not been able to finalise my order!!! I'm now tired and cranky, so I shall save that post for tomorrow when I can enjoy telling you about all the lovely things.