The Donna Hay Coconut Cake was very easy to make, nice and light and had a really nice flavour (as long as you like coconut). Unfortunately in my rush to get it iced before the Cooking Club girls arrived I misread the amount of water to add to the icing and added too much..hence the lack of icing on the cake and the abundance of icing on the plate!!
The gnocchi was also very easy but when it came to cooking it there were a few issues. The first lot cooked beautifully and the resulting dish looked great. This one was made with salmon instead of prawns due to an allergy to shellfish and looked and apparently tasted great.
The second attempt shown at the top was also great but then things started to go wrong..the gnocchi was just falling apart and ending up looking more like mush than nice parcels of gnocchi.
Eager to try and work out what was going wrong we tried cooking more with a clean pot of water and tried rolling the gnocchi into balls rather than having blunt cut ends. It still wasn't great. The verdict...the humidity made the gnocchi become moist over time so next time we will try keeping it in the fridge until ready to cook.
Overall though this was a really yummy dish, quite rich due to all the butter and very filling. I will definitely be making gnocchi again and would be keen to try it with some different sauces.
The souffles were a great success...they rose beautifully, in fact so beautifully that they hit the oven shelf above....note to self, remove shelf above tray next time! There was a moment when the oven temperature dropped and they appeared to not be rising but once the temperature reached 180 degrees again all was good. Very yummy and no need to fear the souffle!! Will be keen to try different souffle recipes in the future.
All round a successful day in the kitchen and a great start to the Cooking Club. Well done girls!
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