FX for you Vic. I'd share your concerns about their lack of experience too. There's only 1 way to get experience, but, when we have so little to work with, there are better guinea pigs available.

Afm, woke early this morning and couldn't sleep. Got up and baked a cake for our afternoon tea with friends today. I suck at cakes and ran out of time to do a practice run yesterday, so it may be a disaster, but at least it kept me busy. Now 11am and have not yet had the dreaded "sorry, it didn't make it" phone call, so keep telling myself that "no news is good news", over and over... Cake is on the bench and I'm hoping it's cooked through. I always have trouble with the skewer coming out clean, even when it's not cooked. I don't know how I manage to do such a simple thing wrong, but somehow I do... I once had a cake that was still wobbling like jelly, so obviously not done and the skewer came out clean! Wtf?! Today's experiment is an upside-down apple cake. I had apples I wanted to use up... Smells awesome!