I love getting creative with chocolate, but it can be a little messy and a little tricky not to overheat the chocolate. Choco Writers is a clever product that saves time and the guess work of melting chocolate. No more messy worktops, bowls or spatulas when getting creative with Choco Writers. Halloween chocolate decorations …
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Butterscotch Shortbread Recipe
This Butterscotch Shortbread recipe, has just a few ingredients to create a taste of luxury. My basic shortbread recipe is a tried and trusted one, with a simple addition of tiny pieces of fudge. Once baked the fudge turns into small pieces of tasty butterscotch. A naughty but nice Butterscotch Shortbread Recipe Butterscotch Shortbread Recipe …
Giant Cupcake Birthday Cake with Rainbow Butter Cream
The birthday cake of choice for my niece this year was to create a giant cupcake cake with a piped topping sitting in a giant cupcake case made from chocolate. Gulp! I had seen a rather magnificent cake on My Cupcake Addiction, an Australian site with some fabulous cakes and tutorials. I was inspired by their brightly coloured rainbow …
Cherry Cake Recipe with Lemon Icing
Sometime ago a Mary Berry recipe for Cherry Cake was featured on The Great British Bake Off. I adore Cherry Cake, a favourite cake of mine that was baked by my late Aunt Fay. So for my birthday this year my sisters and niece all got together to bake me a Cherry Cake. I pointed them …
Easy Fruit Cake Recipe made with Oil
This recipe for Fruit Cake made with oil is one of my cakes I can continue to eat as part of my ‘healthier bakes’ for lower Cholesterol. I am choosing to bake less with butter and baking fat, and instead using more olive oil or rapeseed oil. This is a favourite bake Fruit Cake recipe made with oil. A …
Looking for Birthday Cake Inspiration
Ever since my nieces 3rd birthday I always baked her birthday cakes. This year she will be 9 years old, she was quick to tell me at the weekend this will be her last year of being a single digit it will be the double figures of 10 next year! I am still unsure what …
Baking for a Lower Cholesterol
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 …
Easy Recipe for Chocolate Fairy Cakes to create mini Black Forest Inspired Cakes
This simple recipe for Chocolate Cakes, or Fairy Cakes as I like to refer to them, for me is another baking essential. Once you have mastered this recipe you can use this as a base to add additional ingredients such as glace cherries or chocolate drops, or pimp your cake up with fancy decoration. Chocolate Fairy …
Sticky Ginger Cake Recipe
This recipe for Sticky Ginger Cake was easy to follow and most successful. I have received a request for the last few years to bake a Ginger Cake for my uncle’s birthday, and this was his lucky year. I relied on family feedback as I am not a lover of ginger myself, and was reliable informed it …
Heart Shaped Stained Glass Biscuit Recipe
A home baked Valentine’s Day biscuit to share with family, friends or a loved one. This heart shaped biscuit recipe is easy to make and children will love adding a boiled sweet and seeing its transformation into a stained glass window. This recipe made a lovely biscuit dough that was soft yet firm and rolled out easy …
