A Weekend of Baking...Mini Victoria Sponges and Triple Chocolate Brownies

Last Tuesday it was my one year work anniversary, so I decided to make some treats to take in for my colleagues. I recently bought an individual loose-bottomed mini cake pan from Lakeland, so I was looking forward to trying it out to see what I could achieve.

The tray came with a victoria sponge recipe, so using this I set about making the cakes. Everything was going very well until I put the trays of batter into the over, went back to check on them a few minutes later, to find that four of the loose bottoms had sprung slight leaks and were dripping down into the tray below!

I was worried that I would have uneaven bakes with some burning and some still raw, but amazingly, they all turned out rather well! By the time I had trimmed some down, neatened them up, iced them and filled them, they were rather tasty!

My second bake was my triple chocolate brownies, a recipe I keep as a very closely guarded secret as they really are that good! (I'll let you into the secret...you need a lot of chocolate!) Delicious, moreish and decadent, they are the perfect thing to have for elevenses with a cup of tea.