A simple and easy recipe Raspberry Fool to help use up a glut of raspberries in my garden. The Autumn Raspberries have produced an abundance of fruit this year and are still going. Simple Raspberry Fool Recipe This recipe is taken from The Dairy Book of Home Cooking, one of my go to cook books. …
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Recipe Mini Eclairs with Violet Essence Icing
I have discover choux pastry with this easy bake Mini Eclairs with violet essence icing. I was inspired by the Rose Eclairs I had at my Fortnum and Mason Afternoon Tea, this was my first time at making choux pastry, which I have to say is one of the easiest pastries to make – or is …
Chewy Toffee and Salted Cashew Nut Cookies – No Bake Recipe
No Bake Recipe, Chewy Toffee and Cashew Nut Cookies – I baked these having spotted the recipe as part of a book launch promotion by Quercus books for No Bake Baking book, where you will also find the source of the recipe. There are just four ingredients to make these no bake biscuits, so very simple …
How to make a Loom Band Cake
Every year I make a cake for my niece Ava, this year she is celebrating her eighth birthday. I had originally planned to make a pinata cake, but over the last month or two she has discovered the #loombands craze! As a surprise I would make her a Loom Band cake, I had recently seen …
Triple Chocolate Brownies – Recipe
I can now tick off another recipe from my list of bakes, this one’s from Australian’s Woman’s Weekly Cupcakes and Baking book and made especially for my cousin Verity’s birthday. It is my first time at baking chocolate brownies, I have previously made Butterscotch Brownies but they are very different in texture to chocolate brownies. It is a recipe that I will bake …
Cherry and Coconut Cake Recipe
This recipe for Cherry and Coconut Cake was simple and quick to make, and well received by all those who ate a slice or two. It was most selfless of me to bake this cake as I do not like coconut, a cake I could not eat! As selfless as I was this cake is …
Vanilla Macaroons Recipe and Using a Macaroon Mat
Macaroons are one of my sisters favourite sweet treats to eat, though I have never been tempted with them, not a huge fan of almonds. My sister kindly lent me her Marks and Spencers Delicious Macaroons book along with a special macaroon mat, which proved invaluable. Though a little time consuming they were reasonably easy to make. I …
Recipe Chocolate Chip Shortbread & Review Heston Blumental Adjustable Rolling Pin
Review of Heston Blumental Adjustable Rolling Pin When you think of a rolling pin, most people think of a cylindrical piece of wood, I know I do did. so, when I was asked by Salter if I would like to review the Heston Blumental Adjustable Rolling Pin, I had already formed some sort of opinion. …
Chocolate Mince Pies with Port – Recipe
I know I am rather late posting this recipe, it’s now New Years Eve! To top it off it is also supposed to be an entry into December’s We Should Cocoa Challenge, but I have kind of missed that too. Recipe for sweet chocolate pastry Ingredients 150g butter 250g plain flour 30g cocoa powder 90g …
Christmas Office Bake Off
1970’s inspired Ginger Nut Biscuit Log It appears that we just can not resist a bake off in the office where I work, the suggestion of a Christmas Bake Off certainly got the creative juices flowing. As you would expect there were a few Mince Pies entries, a few Yule Logs including one with a …