Happy Birthday Thought I would share a few cake bakes I have made recently with you. The flower cake as you can see was for a 70th birthday celebration, made using a vanilla sponge cake filled with vanilla buttercream and strawberry jam. For the recipe I used my standard fairy cake recipe, only a four egg and …
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Hairy Dieters Sparkling Lemonade and Lime Jelly Recipe
Lemonade and Lime Jelly from the Hairy Bikers. I have rather indulged in too many cakes and biscuits of late and wanted to make something a little less calorie laden. My sister has raved about the Hairy Dieters recipe book, which she has kindly lent to me. I will return – promise! Whilst looking through …
Chocolate Cake in a Mug recipe
Need cake but do not want to wait for the oven to heat up and then wait for your bake – the answer you need is Cake in a Mug recipe! In just over the time it takes to make yourself a cup of tea or a hot chocolate, you can have homemade cake. Technically my …
Peppermint Creams Recipe
Peppermint Creams recipe – no baking required! What a great time I had at the weekend when my six year old niece came for a sleep over, we had a list of activities planned and of course this included baking! With it being such a warm day I did not really want the oven on, so …
Rose Water Glazed Cakes Recipe
Pretty, floral, Rose Water Glazed Cakes – so easy to make and even easier to eat! I made a batch of Fairy Cakes, but chose to bake them directly in the tin,well greased of course. This was not a plain cake or bun tray as you can see from the photographs it had ridges. Fairy …
Recipe – Chocolate and Honey Madeleines
Chocolate and Honey Madeleines Recipe Makes 12-14 Preheat your oven to 180 degrees C Ingredients60g unsalted butter – melted1 large egg50g caster sugar50g plain flour 2 teaspoons cocoa powder tablespoon or two of honey Chocolate and Honey Madeleines Method Melt the butter, use some of the melted butter to liberally grease the Madeleine tray. Put …
Easter Biscuits Recipe
Easter Biscuits are a great treat and an alternative gift to chocolate eggs. My Easter Biscuits recipe are all baked, gift wrapped and ready to be delivered in my new hamper on Easter Sunday, just need to get my bunny ears out of the cupboard. Easter Biscuits Recipe Easter Biscuits Recipe Makes 15-17 biscuits Oven …
Recipe – Apricot and Yogurt Scones
Apricot and Yogurt Scones Recipe, how I decided on this unusual combination. Last month Foodies100 linked up with Greek Gods Yogurt and challenged bloggers to create an Aphrodite inspired recipe for valentines day. I knew my recipe would be something baked, but what? – a cake, pudding or something else? Scones recipe – Apricot and Yogurt Scones I received a large …
Devil’s Food Cake – Nigella Recipe
Devil’s Food Cake – wickedly fabulous Cake time – more precisely it is chocolate cake which according to Nigella makes this Devil’s Food Cake. So what better way to celebrate a birthday than with a chocolate cake. You may recall that last year I made my aunt her character cake for her birthday, this year …
Recipe Carrot and Sultana Mini Loaves
Carrot and Sultana Mini Loaves I always think baking with any vegetable to be healthy, well for me at least. So my Carrot and Sultana mini loaves are made using carrots, sultanas and low fat cream cheese, I’ve done my best to cut back on the extra calories. Normally when baking Carrot Cake I would use …