I have taken on a new project, one that will no doubt help me reach one of my 101 in 1001 goals- baking new things. I am forever baking the same old things and not that I complain- I bake them as they are good, but variety is good, no?
A number of bloggers I follow blog at least twice a month with recipes from The Sweet Melissa Baking Book. A while ago, this book was chosen as a cook-along book- each week a new recipe is baked until the book is cooked! I am starting part way through, and although I have missed the cook-along of several recipes I want to try, I am pretty sure I will try them as they seem just lovely!
This week’s recipe is courtesy of Jennifer of The Rookie Baker. Catch the recipe over there, or other people’s efforts over here!
What a recipe to start with! I am glad I checked at the SMS site during the week to see how others had gone with this one. If I had pulled anything else out of the oven and it still wobbled I would have put it back in for another 20 minutes! But on cooling in the fridge it has developed a beautiful consistency!

I used frozen raspberries in the middle and did worry that not defrosting them may have had an impact, but indeed not! This is a winner! If I didn’t want to rush over and blog it I suspect I would be finishing off the entire cake in a sitting! I can see this becoming a dinner party standard recipe for me- it really is a winner!



