Category bakings
An American Ski cake
It is strange to bake in someone else’s kitchen, even more so in a different country with different things. It is never quite as straightforward! —————————————— Your Basic Chocolate Cake Recipe Ingredients: Eggs Self raising flour (or plain flour with baking powder added – no SR in this American abode) Caster sugar Butter Vanilla extract […]
Goat’s Cheesecake
My favourite kind of cheesecake is the plain kind, I’m not a massive fan of the ones with the fruity goop on top (although our local cafe puts whole strawberries onto the base and then pours on the top and that’s pretty good.) I was flicking through one of my books and came across this […]
Vegans need birthday cakes too!
We’re off on holiday today, leaving our lovely friends looking after house and cats, and I’m going to be on this train for a wee while so I thought I would share something old…. It is well known amongst my co-workers that I love to bake, love to create, and most of all, love to […]
Individual Lemon Meringue Pies
I love Lemon Meringue Pie. Each time I make it I could also eat up all the lemonyness leftover from making it with a spoon (and often do). A question I often ask myself is why is everything better when it’s smaller? I love to make individual Bakewell Tarts: Individual cakes have conquered the world: […]
Tea Loaf Cake.
Just before you go away on holiday, you realise that you have 11 eggs, 2 packs of butter and other random things in the fridge. What to do with a load of eggs? Bake. ——————————————————————————- Tea Loaf Cake – taken from Bristol Community Cake Book Ingredients: 350g mixed dried fruit 200g dark brown sugar 270g […]
Apple Cake.
We had some cooking apples festering in the fruit bowl, abandoned, forsaken, and of course inedible unless something is done with them. Soon to be off on holiday, they really needed something doing with them… so what else would I do with leftover apples? Make a cake! This is my favourite apple cake recipe, I […]
Chocolate Marble Cake with White Chocolate Icing
A little while ago, I was flicking through one of my (ever increasing collection of) cookbooks, and writing down a ‘to bake’ list of everything I liked the look of…. As the book was: The very beautiful British Baking by Peyton and Byrne (Oliver Peyton), the list was extensive: The first things off the list […]
Marshmallow Teacakes
Who loves Teacakes? I know I do, but what if instead of the firm set marshmallow of the Tunnocks Teacake, it contains the fluffy gooey marshmallow of Snowballs? Oh and was homemade, which obviously trumps all. —————————————————————————————- Marshmallow Teacakes Recipe – taken from British Baking by Peyton and Byrne Ingredients: Biscuit base: 110g plain flour […]
Sausage Dogs and Munchtaches.
I love making biscuits. If the biscuits are cute… even better. The first time I made this recipe, it was for a friend’s birthday. She isn’t a big cake fan, but she does like biscuits…. and Sausage Dogs. It was her 30th birthday too… so that deserves 30 little fellas all looking their best! P.S […]
Preparing for hobnob day… Mammoth Hobnob baking, and a new variation.
It’s International Homemade Hobnob Celebration day tomorrow, and plans are afoot for a handout of free hobnobs to the people of bristol. Free handouts require many hobnobs… Butter, syrup and water… added to… Oats, flour, sugar and bicarbonate of soda….. Spoonfuls flattened on a tray…. = many tiers of hobnobs cooling…. However, I also decided […]
Baking, Making, and Crafting 