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RED VELVET CAKE
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged food, sweet, cake, red velvet cake, heart cake, wedding, valentines cake, engagement cake, hen party, cream cheese frosting, Annie Bell's Baking Bible
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RASPBERRY ROCKY ROAD
This recipe for raspberry rocky road is one of my favourites. It also seems to be a favourite of most of my friends and family, most notably my sister in law, Sami. When she was pregnant with my nephew last … Continue reading
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Tagged Chocolate, dessert, food, raspberry rocky road, recipe, rocky road, sweet
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RIDICULOUSLY MOREISH COCONUT COOKIES
A few weeks ago we had a truly lovely girl called Irene come to our office for work experience. We all loved her immediately and then she made us love her more by baking for us. She made us these … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, Chocolate, coconut cookies, cookies, food, recipe, sweet
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ITS PANCAKE DAY!
Its Shrove Tuesday aka Pancake Day! One of my favourite days of the year. Yes, I know I can have pancakes at any time throughout the year but there is something special about having a day dedicated to pancakes. They … Continue reading
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Tagged cheese and ham pancake, crepes, food, lemon and sugar pancake, pancake, Pancake Day, recipe, savoury, Shrove Tuesday, sweet
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CRANACHAN
Cranachan is a traditional Scottish dessert, made from a mixture of whipped cream, whisky, honey (preferably heather honey), and fresh raspberries with toasted oatmeal. This deliciously simple dessert is a perfect way to end a Burns Supper. Ingredients: 40g medium … Continue reading
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Tagged Burns Night, Burns Supper, cranachan, dessert, food, raspberries, Scottish, Scottish dessert, sweet
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RASPBERRY BAKEWELL TART
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged almond tart, Bakewell pudding, Bakewell tart, cake, dessert, food, Hairy Bikers, Jam, pastry, pudding, Raspberry Bakewell tart, recipe, sweet
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PECAN-PRALINE CHEESECAKE WITH CARAMEL SAUCE
I was looking to make a cheesecake for a party I was throwing recently. Everything else I was making seemed to have a chocolate theme so I wanted something that the non-chocoholics could enjoy. I get regular emails from one … Continue reading
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Tagged caramel, caramel cheesecake, cheesecake, dessert, food, pecan, salted caramel, sweet
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SALTED CARAMEL YULE LOG
Last month I was flicking through Delicious Magazine, my favourite food magazine and this recipe for Salted Caramel Yule log, designed by Gemma Gannon, founder of Band Of Bakers, jumped out at me. I usually make Mary Berry’s classic chocolate roulade … Continue reading
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Tagged Band Of Bakers, chocolate roulade, Christmas, Delicious Magazine, dessert, food, ganache, recipe, salted caramel, Salted Caramel Yule log, sweet, yule log
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MADELEINES
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 … Continue reading
SALTED CARAMEL BROWNIES
As you may of may not know, it is still National Chocolate Week…what a wonderful name for a ‘week’. What could be better than a chocolate week? Anyway…this wondrous ‘week’ gave me a marvellous excuse to try out some chocolate recipes I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged Brownies, caramel, Chocolate, food, Paul A Young, pudding, recipe, salted caramel brownies, sweet
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CHOCOLATE & PISTACHIO FUDGE
Continuing my theme on chocolate, since it’s National Chocolate Week, here is a recipe I found in Good Housekeeping’s Chocolate Collection for Chocolate & Pistachio fudge. A lot of recipes for this fudge will include butter but this one doesn’t, … Continue reading
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Tagged Chocolate, chocolate pistachio fudge, food, fudge, Good Housekeeping, recipe, sweet
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QUICK & EASY APPLE PIE
My friend Louise has a beautiful apple tree in her garden and brought a load of its apples into work for me to bake with. These seasonal apples are perfect for pies and crumbles. I made a blackberry and apple … Continue reading
HOMEMADE NUTELLA
I have been testing out some recipes lately, mainly experimenting with fillings for profiteroles. Whilst I was standing in my kitchen, eating Nutella out of the jar with a tablespoon (yes, I’m a pig!), I decided to come up with … Continue reading
THE BEST SALTED CARAMEL ICE CREAM EVER!
I am not a big fan of ice cream, I never have been. Not sure why. I just never found it particularly enjoyable to eat. Maybe its because I have sensitive teeth and it hurts, maybe its because you get … Continue reading
MILLIONAIRE SHORTBREAD
When I posted photos of my Jubilee party, I got a lot of people messaging me asking me how I made my millionaire shortbread so here is my very simple recipe… INGREDIENTS For the shortbread: 250g (8.8oz) plain flour 75g … Continue reading
MINI CHEESECAKES
For the base 150g Digestive biscuits or Graham Crackers 75g butter, melted 1 tbsp caster sugar For the filling 375g cream cheese, at room temperature 112g caster sugar 2 medium eggs 150ml double/heavy cream 30ml lemon juice Splash of vanilla … Continue reading
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Tagged dessert, food, mini cheesecake, party food, pudding, recipe, sweet
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CHOCOLATE PROFITEROLES
I think its safe to say I have a lot of weaknesses when it comes to food in general but I think my biggest weakness has to be chocolate profiteroles. I adore them. The light airiness of the choux pastry, … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, chocolate profiteroles, choux pastry, dessert, food, pudding, recipe, sweet
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PERFECT PAVLOVA
Pavlova is also one of my favourite puddings. Unfortunately, I never feel sick from it so I can just eat and eat and eat! This is my fool proof recipe: Serves 12-14 (depending on how greedy you are!) INGREDIENTS For … Continue reading
MINI BANOFFEE PIES
While I was making my banoffee pie recently, I decided it might be nice to make some mini ones. So I did!
AMAZING BANOFFEE PIE
Banoffee Pie is my friend Denise’s favourite dessert and seeing as it was her birthday this weekend, I thought I’d make one and bring it into the office on Friday so we could start the celebrations early. This is a … Continue reading
HESTON’S LEMON TART
When I was trying to decide what dessert to make for my friends Louise and Tony last weekend, I couldn’t make up my mind between something rich and sweet or something clean and light. I started off my thinking I … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, dessert, food, Heston Blumenthal, lemon tart, pie, pudding, recipe, sweet
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SKINNY CHOCOLATE MOUSSE
I recently bought The Skinny French Kitchen, a cookery book by Harry Eastwood. In it, she takes on the challenge of marrying her love of classic French cookery with a desire to maintain her waistline. Every recipe has been slimmed down … Continue reading
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Tagged chocolate mousse, dessert, food, Harry Eastwood, pudding, recipe, Skinny French Chef, sweet
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DELICIOUS CARROT CAKE
It was my friend’s Mike’s birthday last week so I decided to make him a carrot cake seeing as its his favourite. If you like carrot cake, please try out this recipe as it really was delicious… INGREDIENTS For the … Continue reading
GOOEY CHOCOLATE BROWNIES
So I had a few things on at the weekend that spurred me on to make a batch of brownies. First, it was my lovely friend Jane’s birthday, secondly I was having friends round for dinner on Sunday night and … Continue reading
APPLE PIE
Last week when I was watching the Fabulous Baker Brothers on Channel 4 (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-fabulous-baker-brothers), one of the brothers made an apple pie. It looked so delicious that I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I used to make apple pies all … Continue reading
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Tagged apple pie, baking, dessert, Fabulous Baker Brothers, food, pudding, recipe, sweet
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SHORTBREAD
From December 2011 So its the day before New Year’s Eve, or Hogmanay as its called in Scotland. And no Hogmanay would be complete without shortbread. Shortbread is traditionally taken to a friend’s house for ‘first footing’. First footing is … Continue reading
MINI MERINGUE NESTS
When I have people over for dinner I tend to make a pavlova. It’s easy and everyone loves it. Even friends who profess not to like pavlova end up loving it. I recently had a dinner party and I made … Continue reading
EDD KIMBER’S ULTIMATE CHOCOLATE CAKE
It’s my chocoholic friend’s birthday today so last night I decided to make her the chocolatiest (is that a word??) cake I could. I remembered a recipe I saw in Edd Kimber’s new baking book for his Ultimate Chocolate Cake. … Continue reading
PERFECT STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING
I had the best sticky toffee pudding I’ve ever tasted at Andrew Edmunds in Soho a while ago. I asked them how they made it and they said it was a very standard sticky toffee pudding recipe. I found that … Continue reading
PEPPERMINT CREAMS
My mum is a terrific cook and when I was young, I used to watch her every move in the kitchen. She would always try to involve my brothers and I in everything she did but would also encourage us … Continue reading
THICK & CHEWY CHOCOLATE & PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
I love Ben’s Cookies but seeing as they’re sold by weight they can be pretty pricey! I looked online for a recipe and found one that looked pretty good. I modified it a bit to suit my own taste and added … Continue reading
THIN & CHEWY CHOCOLATE CHIP & PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
I’m always on the lookout for a good recipe for thin and chewy chocolate chip cookies that actually stay chewy. I have tried loads of recipes but I think I have modified them enough to come up with the perfect … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, chocolate chip, cookies, food, peanut butter, recipe, sweet
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HONEYCOMB HAPPINESS
Last night I had just finished dinner and was craving something sweet. I didn’t want to crack open a new bar of chocolate as I knew I would eat the lot so I decided to make honeycomb instead. A sure … Continue reading
SCOTTISH TABLET
I would like to tell you about the sweetest, diabetes-inducing Scottish delicacy called Tablet. Tablet is a medium-hard, incredibly sugary traditional sweet. It is virtually unknown outside of Scotland but being from Scotland, it was one of my favourite treats … Continue reading
