I do LOVE to bake but I am not good at it, something about natural instincts in the kitchen I assume. I could follow a recipe to a tee and still find a way to muck it up. 

Oh, how I love doing baking posts because then I get something delicious at the end too! I received an incredible baking book for Christmas and this is the first recipe I am trying out. The book is categorized according to countries around the world. So I decided to start in the United Kingdom with the Madeira cake. 

There were so many to choose from I would love to make at least two recipes a month if I have the time. This Madeira cake stood out to me for some reason as I was going through all the recipes. There's nothing like a good, lemon cake and the description of the Madeira cake was all too appealing.

I can't lie to you... I am kind of happy this week is almost over. My work schedule was so overloaded I feel like all I did was wake up, blog, work, blog, sleep, repeat. But it's Friday and also day 9 of blogmas! Can that really be? Must it go so fast? (I realize this sounds crazy as I just said I was happy the week was over) I think I'm going to make more of an effort to go out and do Christmas-like things next week. But anywho...here's a weekly roundup to stop me from yammering on!