Bramley apple cake with custard icing
I’m back again with another Bramley apple recipe; an apple cake this time. I’ve taken the hearty, homely great British apple crumble and custard pudding and given it a makeover. A new way to serve it...
View ArticleEton mess butterfly cupcakes
Okay so this is a slightly disjointed blog post. I have a few things to tell you. First up, let’s focus on the recipe in hand. That’s most likely why you’re here. So I developed this eton mess...
View Articlelemon layer cake
This is one of those recipes that ballooned. It was supposed to be a simple lemon sandwich cake. Then it turned into a quadruple lemon layer cake and then I pulled it back to a less exuberant lemon...
View ArticleCoconut and lime drizzle cake
I am still in full Rio mode so I made a Brazilian inspired cake for you; a coconut and lime drizzle cake. It uses coconut milk rather than condensed milk, though the latter is deeply popular in...
View ArticleValentine’s day baking
I always feel going out on Valentine’s is a bit strange. I remember as a teen venturing out with my much older boyfriend (erm, me just 17 and him, ahem, 27… how to give your parents minor heart...
View ArticlePistachio & cherry cake
I made a cake. It’s a proper, cut with a trowel cake that’s hearty and perfect with a cup of tea. You do need to sacrifice rather a lot of pistachios to the cause, but I am okay with that, for they add...
View ArticleSweet potato, carrot and peanut butter muffins
And here we are again, a new year, a new start, an opportunity to undo all the less than nutritionally dense treats we’ve consumed all in the name of celebration and festivity. But I can’t do detoxes....
View ArticleBrain Cake for Halloween
I have never been one to shirk away from novelty themes. You will find me absolutely cutting sandwiches into dinosaur shapes and creating faces on pizzas through the power of olive eyes and red pepper...
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