Tag Archives: chocolate
Yeah I made a Brownie in the Microwave….. Don’t judge me.
So, today started off well…. and productively. I went to the cake decorating shop and bought some teal coloured fondant icing ready to make some flowers for my friend’s sister’s wedding cake. Oh, and finished the book I was reading… P.s. everyone buy Summer Loving by Rivka Spicer. It’s awesome. Back to what I was […]
A super duper quick birthday cake!
With it being my birthday yesterday, it left little time for baking…. But it’s the birthday of one of our good friends today….. and we were due to go for drinks at 8pm…. I don’t get home from work until 6pm…. I need to bribe people with cake to be my friends….. Ready, set, go! […]
Mrs M’s Birthday Treats: take 1 – Chocolate and Raspberry Butterfly Cakes.
It’s my birthday next week, and as is customary, I must provide cakes for everyone at work…. However, currently I work across 3 sites… 3 lots of people…. 3 lots of cake. For the first lot of cakes, which I took into work with me today, I made vegan gingerbread men (post to follow), vegan […]
Chocolate-bottom Macaroon Cookies
Coconut Macaroons. I reckon we can class them as British. These beauties are easy, tasty, and smell absolutely gorgeous while baking, filling the house with coconutty loveliness. ——————————————- Chocolate-bottom Macaroon Cookies Recipe – taken from Vegan Cookies invade your Cookie Jar by Ida Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero Ingredients 3 ounces extra firm silken […]
Baking with Herman: take 5 – two variations: Coconut and Cardamom, and Banana, Chocolate, and Ginger.
Yey! It’s Herman bake day! I had been dying to make something with Cardamom, ever since I had some Cardamom shortbread at the Better Food Company (it was tasty). I also had picked up some of this: So from that, came this…. —————————————————————————————————- Coconut and Cardamom Herman Recipe Ingredients 250ml coconut cream a good handful […]
Millionaire’s Shortbread
This is another recipe from one of those books that makes you go “oooh I want to make that!….and that, and that too”…. It is also one of those occasions where you realise that you have run out of this, or don’t have any of that.. in this case, Golden Syrup, Butter, and Semolina. So […]
Baking with Herman: Take 1, Original recipe Herman and Chocolate and Coconut Herman
Herman was split yesterday at day 9… The next step at day 10 was to bake… So I figured the first recipe to try had to be the one I was given. ———————————————————————————————– Herman Apple, Raisin and Cinnamon Cake Recipe Ingredients 1 portion Herman 200g sugar 240g plain flour 2 eggs 2tsp vanilla essence 2 […]
Schokolade Kuchen (Chocolate cake, Swiss style)
So it’s return from holiday time again! Along with a return to the Apple tart, I googled Swiss cake recipes and came up with this. ———————————————————————————————————————- Recipe for Schokolade Kuchen (Chocolate cake) – taken from here Ingredients 150 g margarine 230 g sugar 6 eggs 1 pinch of salt 5 g of vanilla sugar 200 […]
Flowerpot Cakes
One of my favourite shops to peruse for kitchen tat/ gadgets that I simply must have is Lakeland. On a visit to York, I excitedly wandered about admiring all and came out with (amongst other things) this: I have seen rolls, and cakes baked in actual terracotta flowerpots before, but this seemed much easier. I […]
Holiday baking… Nanaimo Bars
On our return from holidays, when it’s our birthday, or if we’re leaving,….. any other occasion, we are required to bring in tasty treats to work for everyone else. From holidays, generally the idea is to bring in things from the holiday destination, however, sometimes the baggage allowance means that this just isn’t all that […]
Baking, Making, and Crafting 