Let them eat cake.

So ... one of my resolutions this year is to bake more.  I was given Mary Berry's Baking Bible for Christmas, so I thought I'd put it to use over the course of the year.  The aim is to bake something every week, though realistically, this might not happen.  I can but try :)
Anyway, week one was a French Apple Tart.  Known to linguists as a tartopom...

And then this weekend gone, I made a Hazelnut Meringue Raspberry cake thing.  I chose this particular one because we were having friends over for tea, one of whom is gluten-free (so to speak...) and this recipe, being a meringue, has no flour.

The Apple Tart looked the nicer of the too, but they both tasted lovely, so two successes can be chalked up.