One of my favourite baking recipe books is Annie Bell’s Baking Bible. Its a fantastic book filled with straightforward, easy to follow classic recipes for cookies & biscuits, traybakes, sponge cakes, cheesecakes, chocolate cakes, tarts, pies, brownies, breads and meringues. One of my favourite recipes is this classic tearoom chocolate…
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.…
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)…
