The Baking Medic

bakewell tart. :)

Today is quite a special day for two reasons.  Firstly, one of my very close friends is turning 20 today! Woo! So it’s time to say goodbye to using your teenage years as an excuse for ridiculous antics.  Unfortunately, I have also left my teen years behind and I have yet to come up with an adequate explanation for my own antics. O well. :)  I made this tart for her birthday as what’s a birthday without some sort of treat? Normally I’d opt for a cake, but I heard her talk about how much she liked bakewell tarts (albeit the ones with icing and cherries!) and I had some ground almonds which were itching to be used.

Secondly, today is also pi today! The day we celebrate that irrational number that we’re taught about in school and how those decimals just NEVER END.  Mind boggling stuff for an 11 year old.  Anyways, in honour of this mystic number, I made a pie! er. well technically it’s a tart, but they’re practically the same thing. So please, just work with me. lol.

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It seems my blog is running away from me again.  It’s probably been a week since I last posted, and I’ve got at least four things waiting to go up!  Still I suppose it is still better to have too many things to blog about than too few.

This post happens to be about a fresh peach and blueberry galette and my first solo venture into the world of pastry making.  You might think “solo venture” is an odd way to phrase it, but it’s the truth.  In the past, I’ve helped my Grandma make her famous apple pie (whose Grandma doesn’t make the most delicious apple pie you’ve ever tasted?) but I’ve always eschewed pastry making in favour of the more simple “throw everything into a bowl and stir” approach to baking. » Read the rest of this entry «