My workplace
is a charitable place which is lovely but it means that we get quite a lot of
department or ‘all staff’ emails about our colleagues’ latest charitable
exploits. Last week two emails caught my attention, one which reminded me it
was the start of Movember (‘an annual, month-long event involving the growing
of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men's
health issues, such as prostate cancer and other male cancers; and associated
charities’ – thank you Wikipedia!!) and that a significant proportion of the
men in the office would be sporting dodgy ‘mo’s’ for the month. The other was
from our big boss Greg to say that his girlfriend Kasia was doing her bit for
Movember by asking for sponsorship to go out running every day in November
wearing a LARGE black stick on moustache! http://www.justgiving.com/
As many of you will know I was never going to commit to an exercise regime to raise money or awareness of a worthwhile cause but I can bake for it!!
As many of you will know I was never going to commit to an exercise regime to raise money or awareness of a worthwhile cause but I can bake for it!!
This week
myself and my baking buddies Nic and Karlie set about baking and decorating Moustache
biscuits to sell in the office. BBC Good Food of course came up with a goods
and provided us with an easy recipe to get started on the ‘mo’s’!
Ingredients
- 250g butter, softened
- 140g caster sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 300g plain flour (or 250g flour and 50g cocoa for chocolate biscuits)
Method
Mix 250g
softened butter and 140g caster sugar in a large bowl with
a wooden spoon, then add 1 egg yolk and 2 tsp vanilla
extract and briefly beat to combine. Sift over 300g plain
flour and stir until the mixture is well combined – you might need to
get your hands in at the end to give everything a really good mix and press the
dough together. The recipe actually stopped at that
stage and we had to kind of guess the next steps!!
Roll
out the dough and cut into biscuits shapes using moustache cutters (I bought a set of five from Lakeland, they are fantastic! But you could use other cutters of
your choice obviously). Bake at 180 degrees for approximately 12-15 minutes. Ours took
slightly longer but I think we were just a bit worried that they still looked a
bit squidgy but they crisped up once they were out of the oven and cooled.
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| My lovely colleagues with their colourful moustaches!! |
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| Some more colleagues.... |
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| Some more colleagues.... |
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| And some more colleagues.... |
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| Bakers and decorators Karlie, Nic, me and Dave |
We made two individual
batches of the dough, one plain and one chocolate. The plain dough was easier
to work with and seemed to bake better, we were forced to eat lots of the chocolate mo’s ourselves because they
broke in the oven or just after we took them out!!
We had a
great time decorating the moustaches with icing, sprinkles, edible glitter and
icing pens. The results weren’t exactly what you would call professional
quality but we had loads of fun and a good catch up while we were doing it.
Most
importantly the moustaches went down a treat with my generous, charitably minded
colleagues and lots of them posed for photos with their new ‘taches before
scoffing them.
This week’s
bake let me combine some of my favourite things, baking, catching up with some
of my best girl friends and doing something good for charity, all in all it was
a perfect bake in my mind!
Have a tasty
week x Linds x
P.S. I also
made my fourth cake for Free Cakes for Kids Edinburgh, it was a Sonic the
Hedgehog cake for a wee boy called Drakeo who was turning six. I got to meet
Drakeo when I delivered it and he was so pleased with the cake he gave me a hug
which was just lovely and made the 3 hours of baking and decorating worth it.
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