Today I tried baking with cups for the first time. It is truly an alien concept to not be putting ingredients onto scales and knowing the exact weight of each ingredient as I add it to the mixture. I thought that using cups would result in some kind of disaster due to lack of exact measuring. The good news is that it didn’t. 

I made berry-walnut upside down cake, from the lovely magazine Jordi sent me. It tastes amazing.

Whilst I was running around the kitchen trying to work out which head of a Russian doll I was supposed to use for 2/3s of a cup, and trying to work out what 2/3 cup was for liquid measurement, I panicked that I would probably be measuring it wrong, that my flour was packed down or that Canadian cups weren’t the same as American cups and I’d end up with the wrong quantities of things. I definitely prefer ounces, or grams if I’m feeling metric. But it wasn’t as daunting as I’d originally expected - and after working out what 2/3 cup for liquid was, I realised that my measuring jug has cup measurements on it. Fool.

All in all I’m glad I made the time today to bake something, that it wasn’t all work. 

NaNoWriMo starts in 11 days. After signing up I decided I wouldn’t do it, but now I think I’m going to give it a shot, and see what happens.