Weekend Baking: Cherry Upside Down Cakes

Turned out to be disappointingly soggy. Frozen cherries in silicone cases were probably not good changes to the original recipe.

Recipe: Little Blueberry Upside-Down Cakes from Baking Bites

Leftovers: Quiche and Cheater's Cake

Trying to use up the leftovers in my fridge this week instead of constantly shopping for more food.

Tonight I was able to use up some elderly yellowing broccoli, bendy celery, spring onions, mushroom and tofu in this quiche. Later in the week, another quiche with mushrooms, spinach and tofu.


Cake was another variant on cheater's cake with some very wrinkled cherries. Came out way too sweet today, probably because of the cherries. Still delicious though. Sadly can't say the same for the baked version of this easy muffin recipe. Rather dry and floury. Guess there's a reason for the milk in these recipes. Too bad as I don't drink milk so never have it around.

Veritas cherry almond & dark chocolate

I was excited to find this local (ie Midwestern) Veritas 54% cacao chocolate bar at the World Market. It is beautifully packaged in its dark vermillion paper box with cut out. The bar itself looks handcut rather than moulded. Unfortunately the taste did not match the packaging. Nothing particularly wrong with it, the almond flakes add a slightly salty taste, and the Michigan cherries are nice, but the chocolate itself is strangely bland. While it claims to be a dark chocolate bar, it has much less cacao flavour than even the Delhaize bars of the same percentage. Perhaps it's the vegetable oil, which is an unusual ingredient for higher-end chocolate bars. Overall the bar itself reminds me of Cadbury's Fruit and Nut bar, though the Veritas bar is less sweet. While my childhood in Singapore and New Zealand make Cadbury rather than Hershey my nostalgia chocolate of choice, my preference now is for something with more flavour, which this definitely did not provide.