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Late night baking

There's something very soothing about a spot of late night baking. Isn't there?

Having promised my office mate cake (I don't actually make anywhere near as much cake as he was led to believe when he moved into the office, I think he feels hard done by) and it's not only been one of those weeks, and I've got some beetroot to use up so it's five to midnight and I think the chocolate beetroot in the oven has at least 20 mins to go.

Pete is out at jam night, we ate late between him coming back from a radio appearance and going back out again, but I'd planned ahead for once, which means it was a pre made cheese sauce I found in the depths of the freezer and defrosted with some pasta. Very nice, like gourmet pasta'n'sauce, but while I'm not hungry this, and a thrown together, but lovely, post Zumba meal yesterday means I haven't really had chance to cook and I've got an backing itch to scratch as it was.

I can't be the only person who finds late night baking very calming, un hurried. You don't have to get to work, or go do anything else, you can spend time properly reading the instructions, handy if it's a slightly odd or unfamiliar recipe. I've even done all the washing up, and listened to an eclectic mix of Radio 4, it's not like I can go to bed just yet is it....
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