IT IS FASHION WEEK IN LONDRES, AND BECAUSE WE ARE NEVER REALLY FOLLOWING THE TRENDS, WE REJECT THE STARVATION DIET OF THE FASHION HIGH SEASON AND INSTEAD RETREAT TO THE KITCHEN TO BAKE.
AND THEN WE CALL THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE WE CAN FIND AND INVITE THEM FOR A LITTLE DINNER AND DRESS UP.
ENTER, THE LOVELY NORWEGIANS, ALL SWEETNESS AND LIGHT, PEACHES AND CREAM (TO COMPLIMENT OUR TARTE, BIEN SUR) AND THE DIVINE VICTORIA, FRESH IN FROM NEW YORK, BELOW:
CHARLOTTE THE MERMAID IN THE ALIX OF BOHEMIA FLEETWOOD DRESS, KILLING IT.
THAT HAIR!
OH LA LA.
AND THEN WE ALL HAVE TO TRY ON WHAT EACHOTHER IS WEARING.
SO ANOTHER BLONDE BEAUTY GIVES THE GREEN CHIFFON A GO: LA PETITE JULIA
THE ALIX OF BOHEMIA POPPY GO LUCKY DRESS
SO MUCH BEAUTY
SWEET DARLINGS IN BATIK AND SEAWEEDS RESPECTIVELY. NORWAY IS BREEDING THEM WELL, AND WE ARE OH SO HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO DRESS THE BUNNIES IN OUR KIT.
ON THE OFF CHANCE YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE APRICOT HARVEST
(LIKE MOST THINGS WORTHWHILE, THIS CAKE IS
BOTH BEAUTIFUL AND DELICIOUS):
Apricot Slice
(adapted from Monsieur Bill Granger)
1 and 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup caster sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch salt
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
6 1/2 ounces softened butter
14 apricots, pitted and halved
Oven at 315 Degrees F
Sift together dry ingredients and make a well in the center.
Combine eggs, vanilla and butter and pour into well.
Beat until smooth.
Into a heavily buttered baking dish or tin, pour the mixture.
Press apricot halves, cut side up, into the mixture in rows.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Take our of the oven, sprinkle with sugar and bake for another 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when pressed in centre of tarte.
Cut in slices and let cool on a wire rack.
(LIKE MOST THINGS WORTHWHILE, THIS CAKE IS
BOTH BEAUTIFUL AND DELICIOUS):
Apricot Slice
(adapted from Monsieur Bill Granger)
1 and 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup caster sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch salt
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
6 1/2 ounces softened butter
14 apricots, pitted and halved
Oven at 315 Degrees F
Sift together dry ingredients and make a well in the center.
Combine eggs, vanilla and butter and pour into well.
Beat until smooth.
Into a heavily buttered baking dish or tin, pour the mixture.
Press apricot halves, cut side up, into the mixture in rows.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Take our of the oven, sprinkle with sugar and bake for another 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when pressed in centre of tarte.
Cut in slices and let cool on a wire rack.
