It's a beautiful day so am trying to get the baking out of the way so that I can go out to play in the sunshine. The sourdough loaf was started last night and left in the fridge overnight to continue to prove slowly. It's starting to get a little too warm to leave it out in the kitchen overnight, although it might have been ok last night as there was quite a hard frost this morning. Anyway, the bread has been baked and is cooling nicely in a bread bag. Sadly, my cake hasn't been quite so successful and might be a complete disaster. We were eating breakfast whilst it was cooking and I could see a bit of a bluish haze in the room; a CAKE BURNING sort of blue haze. The problem is that I decided to use the microwave as a convection oven and it has a bit of a fierce heat from the top of the oven and I didn't think to put some foil over the cake until it was too late *sigh*. The marzipan and mincemeat cake has finished cooking and it is not looking at all appetizing. I'm not giving up on it yet - the top can be sliced off and the whole cake turned upside down. If it tastes burned it will go in the bin and I'll make another, but not yet......