HERMAN

10 days ago i got a knock on the door and my neighbour handed me a little plastic box filled with a brown goo and a peice of paper with instructions...Herman! I'd never heard of Herman before so I followed the instructions and did a bit of internet research.
 4 days later I 'fed' Herman with a mixture of flour, sugar and milk. then again on day 9 then i had the sad job of sperating him into 4 equal parts to share between friends...well i didn't share i decided to make a few different recipes with him and keep him going myself so when i would be able to see my mum and sister and friends that don't live near by and to make more cake :-)

So this morning at 7.30am...seeing as the kids had me up at 6 i thought while they were quietly eating breakfast i'd have a go at baking! i made Herman the cake with more flour, sugar, cinnamon, apples, walnuts vanilla essence ect ect he baked ina massive baking tray and now hes cut and cooled tastes really nice (however not as nice asw the one next door made as she popped a couple of slices over when she had made hers)

So i though why not try something a bit more exciting so currently prooving in the airing cupboard are 2 batches of dough made from my Herman started one lot made into cinnamon whirls and the other i have filled with respberry and flaked almonds. I managed to end up with 2 completly different doughs it turns out i do not understand cups as a meassurement or its conversion into oz as its converted into fluid oz! so i ended up with one nice squashy dough and one quite heavy thick dough that hasnt risen at all but rolled and cut easier than the softer dough.

I'll post the recipes and pictures of the finished product when they've cooked!!