My friend Tony loves citrus-flavoured cakes and seeing as it was his 40th birthday at the weekend, I decided to make him a moist lemon cake. Pouring through all my cookery books, I found this lemon and polenta cake recipe in Annie Bell’s Baking Bible, one of my favourite baking…
It was my friend Tony’s 40th birthday party at the weekend and I was asked if I could make him a birthday cake. I always get a bit nervous when making friends cakes. I’ll admit I can sometimes knock out a good tasting cake but I’m not a great cake…
I love cake, adore it. Victoria Sponge cake is my all-time favourite. But there is one thing I love more than cake, and that’s cake mix. When I was a young girl I used to make cake mix just to eat the mix, I had no intention of baking it.…
One of my best friends Janine, is getting married in June and last weekend we celebrated her hen party. Her sister Nataline, who was organising the weekend, asked if I could make a cake for her. The plan was for us all to meet up at the hotel and have…
I have just seen this article on the Guardian website about a man called Chris Holmes, an immigration officer for Border Force at Stansted Airport, who handed in his resignation yesterday on a cake. As you can see, he writes: “Having recently become a father I now realise how precious life is…
As its the Easter weekend, and I’m back home visiting my family in Scotland, I wanted to make something special to eat on Easter Sunday, something to round off our Sunday roast. All of last week I was trying to think of what to make, then my trusted BBC Good Food weekly…
It’s cold outside, very cold. In fact its snowing around most of the UK at the moment. When the weather is like this, I just want to eat warm, comforting food. I saw someone making a Bakewell Tart on the Food Network a few weeks ago and I haven’t been…
My friend Jordan has been on and on at me for weeks to make him madeleines. When he lived in Paris he used to buy madeleines every day. Seeing as he was clearly going to compare my madeleines to those made my a Parisian pastry chef, I was understandably nervous,…
Its cold outside…really cold. And when it gets cold, I want to eat lovely comforting food to cheer myself up a bit. So the other day, after a rather freezing walk with the dog, I fancied making a cake. I went through my folder of recipes that I pull out…
I was reading the Observer Food Monthly on the tube home the other day and was pouring over the recipes from Nigel Slater’s new book The Kitchen Diaries II when I saw this recipe for blackberry & hazelnut friands. They looked beautiful and running over the ingredients I realised that…
As you can see from my previous post (http://aspoonfulofsugarblog.com/2012/07/01/diamond-jubilee-party/), I made a Union Jack cake for my Jubilee party at the weekend. I’ve had quite a lot of requests from people asking how I made it, so here goes! INGREDIENTS For the sponge: 350g (12oz) soft margarine (I used Stork)…
When I asked my friend Jordan what kind of cake he’d like for his birthday, he replied…“Is it possible to make a Nutella cake? Does such a thing exist? I bloody hope so”. I knew there I was one place to look….Nigella Lawson. And I was right! Here’s how I did…
