Lovely Roast, Tricky Cake

It is becoming clear to me that I do roasts good, and cakes that require sandwiching together badly. Savoury rather than sweet. Suits me fine, I like cake maybe twice a year?

Last time I tried a cake and was successful must have been years ago. In recent years I have done banana loafs, lemon cakes, congress tarts, all successfully. Banana 3 is a favourite recipe for banana cake I shall do on here when I next do one. But last two times (in the last month or so) when I got an urge for and attempted coffee cake, both went wrong. First try I chose a recipe that happened to have a large amount of ingredients and I only have some old cake tins from my mum that are small and cute. They have a thing on them where you can move it round the tin and it lifts the cake. Doesn't work NOW but it used to. So there was too much stuff and the cake didn't cook properly. So I ate the bits round the edge and was done with it. This time the sponge was perfect. The icing failed, too runny.

Looks great, right?

But then, uh oh...

And that was after the icing was in the fridge. I had put too much butter in the icing mix and so kept adding more and more and more icing sugar until the whole pack had nearly gone and it STILL wasn't enough. Next time I'll measure. IF THERE IS A NEXT TIME.

SO, roast as always was awesome. Here's Mr Lamb, peeking from his foil tomb.

And all sealed up. 

Oven heated to 200C/392F then immediately down to 170C/338F when you put the lamb in. 3-4 hours. Go off and do stuff. Get it out and then do the rest. Made my own yorkshire puddings, here is the one left over when I forgot to take pictures.

My brilliant roast potatoes:

And I don't know the meaning of carving anymore. I slow roast my beef and lamb now so you just pull the meat apart.

And now I have a massive headache from all the sugar I had to keep licking off my hands as I cooked. I'm definitely a savoury girl.