Orange Ginger Marmalade Crostata {Daring Bakers}

There's been this little monster of guilt gnawing away at that all-things-baking-related part of my mind telling me that I've been failing miserably at completing my role as part of the Daring Bakers. It wasn't until I looked back on my posts that I realized I'd missed the last three challenges. Uh, whoops. So I went and gathered butter, flour, sugar and some big waxy oranges, and got to work.

Jaffa Muffins

I don't know about you, but I love discovering new kinds of food through books. Literature has a way of making you look at food differently. In the particular case of jaffa cakes, I discovered their existence when I was about eleven through a book I was reading at the time which unfortunately I can't remember the name of - the protagonist was a young girl who got a role in a theatre and goes through a series of dramas with her friends (as pre-teen books tend to go), but the part that stuck out for me was that her favorite snack was jaffa cakes. 

Carrot Poppy Seed Muffins with Orange Glaze

My family's been on a new found health kick.

You know those nutritional facts on every boxed processed food you get at the supermarket?  Every single one of those has been torn apart and deeply analyzed this past week.  Monounsaturated fat, saturated fat, trans fat - yes I can indeed now tell you the difference between these, although I'm doing my best to forget it.  In case you're interested, it's monounsaturated that's supposed to be (relatively) healthier.