Category: Cakes
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Christmas cake: sugar and spice and all things nice!
About a year ago, I took a bit of a break from blogging about my various different baking and cooking exploits, mainly as I …
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Tear and share remix: T’is the season to be pumpkin
As we slip into Autumn, one of my favourite seasons, it is fully accepted to have copious amounts of spice and pumpkin with everything …
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Battenberg – a thing of beauty and tastes pretty good too
I say it time and time again, but I’ve always wanted to try making Battenberg, mainly because I love marzipan and I could see …
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The battle of the brownies!
As with many of these recipes, something I’ve never really tried until recently is making a brownie, mainly because it isn’t something I enjoy …
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Vanilla cupcakes topped with rainbow icing, because why wouldn’t you?!
For Sarah’s birthday recently, I was set the challenge of supplying her office with some sweet treats and given it was her birthday, she got …
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Cinnamon buns with cream cheese icing – tear and share!
I have always marveled at the beauty that is a tear and share cinnamon bun. It is one of Sarah’s ultimate favourites and vanishes …
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Light and fluffy madeleines
Now I’ve always wanted to cook these, mainly because it gave me an excuse to buy another couple of tins. Anything that allows me …
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A million layers and my Mille-Feuille ain’t one
I baked mille feuilles from scratch for Mother’s Day as it is Sarah’s favourite thing to eat in the World (yes also goes by the …
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Jaffa cakes, gone in one bite
In trying to look up recipes for mille feuille one Saturday afternoon, in the multitude of books I own, I stumbled upon a recipe I …
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Raisin scones, s’gone before you know it!
There is nothing like a scone topped with butter, clotted cream and finished with some strawberry jam. Coming from Devon, I know what constitutes …
