Baking cakes generally involves baking with some form of fat, such as butter then you proceed filling them with fresh cream or butter cream. Most of which do not go towards generating a healthy cholesterol score. That was the message given to me by the nurse a few weeks ago when I went for a …
Category
Showing: 1 - 9 of 9 RESULTS
baking
Kenwood k-Mix My Favourite Kitchen Gadget
I am sharing with you one of my favourite kitchen gadgets – my Kenwood k-Mix Fire Cracker. For years I made my cakes by hand or using a small electric hand whisk. Nothing wrong with a hand whisk, I still use mine for those smaller bakes. But they do not cope well with large batches …
Free Trex Recipe Calendar 2015
Who wants a free Trex Calendar? There are 10,000 calendar’s available from the manufacturers of Trex. I was successful in getting one of these calendars last year and along with plenty of room for you to write down those important appointments there are also some fabulous recipes. They really are a good quality too, my calendar for 2014 …
Review & Recipe – Russian Doll Measuring Cups make Chocolate Brownies
Baking dolls Imagine my delight when Find Me a Gift offered me the chance to try these super cute Russian Doll Measuring Cups. Not only do they look fabulous in the kitchen but have a practical use too. Which have certainly come in handy, I follow many bloggers many based in America and Australia and love …
Coffee and Walnut Cake
Coffee and Walnut Cake Another birthday and a request for a favourite cake of my brother-in-law. Well after all it’s his birthday so he can have whichever cake he likes, and he chose Coffee and Walnut Cake. This is the first time I have made Coffee and Walnut Cake, and I must say I was …
Hot Cross Buns – Bake Off!
The lovely extended Easter weekend is at last upon us, yippee! My sister and I decided to celebrate Good Friday by embarking on a little healthy baking competition, and what better day to bake Hot Cross Buns. We used a …
No Fat Sponge Cake Recipe – The Verdict
Earlier this week I promised to post more details about the No Fat Sponge Cake recipe featured in my Afternoon Tea post. No fat as in no butter, stork, lard or any other form of baking fat. The inspiration behind this cake came a few months back when I’d spotted a blog post on Jam and Clotted …
Featured Article of the Week
My post about Cherry Scones has been selected as Featured Article of the Week on Coffee and Vanilla: Cherry Scones. On behalf of my lovely Cherry Scones, thank you very much.
Fudge Failure
Cherry and Vanilla Fudge I love fudge its one of my favourite sweets, whether it be crumbly or the soft smooth and creamy variety, I love them all. Then of course you have all the flavoured fudges to choose from chocolate, cherry and chocolate, fruit and nut, the choices are endless. I’ve tried …