Romy's Baking and Cake Decorating

 Snickerdoodle cake, each pan shoudl have about 500 g of batter. Thick. Took about 34 minutes to bake. Swirled with knife tip then smoothed, this time cinnamon swirl did incorporate into the batter.

  I'm always busy in the kitchen - too much so for my taste - but with having to shop and cook dinner so often, and clean up afterwards, I haven't done much baking aside from regularly baking bagels, and the odd banana muffins or olive bread.  So it was that much more fun to spend a few hours in the kitchen recalling my skills, using my equipment, and trying a new recipe to make something delicious and pretty. St. Patrick's day is one of those little holidays we enjoy celebrating because it breaks up the routine, is festive, and is an excuse to decorate and eat something different. This year we went with simple cube steaks with mushrooms and onions, colcannon, and my dessert.  I decided to make a roll cake with shamrock decorations. I used  this recipe  from Haniela's. I've seen her amazing cookie decorating videos, but had never made one of her recipes.  Honestly I chose it because it came with a downloadable PDF for the shamrock decorations. I made the ba...