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Carrot cake cupcakes
Regular readers will know that I’m a big fan of the Hummingbird cook book as whenever I make a recipe it always comes out well. According to my housemate these are no exception! Carrot cake has been requested a … Continue reading
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A special cake for World Baking Day
I’ve had a couple of weeks free from baking so thought I should do something special for World Baking Day today. This is a recipe for a cake from one of my favourite cake shops – Konditor and Cook. It’s … Continue reading
More than a bakers dozen
I haven’t made biscuits for a while so decided to do some chocolate chip cookies – always a big hit! I used a recipe from the never-fail Hummingbird Bakery cookbook and adapted it, using dark chocolate chunks and chopped, roasted … Continue reading
Lovely lemon drizzle cake
It’s been requested a few times recently so I’ve made a lemon drizzle cake – actually 2, so there’s enough to go round! This is tried and tested recipe and usually turns out well: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4942/lemon-drizzle-cake Here are the finished products, … Continue reading
Rock cakes!
I had a busy Easter weekend seeing friends & family so didn’t have time for much baking, except for a few more Easter nests for some friends I went to visit. I got a lot of grief today for the … Continue reading
Easter Baking
Today I thought I should make some Easter-themed goodies. I decided to go with a traditional favourite – and they’re simple to make! I used this recipe and filled the chocolate cornflake nests with some mini eggs and mini creme … Continue reading
Rocky Road
This ALWAYS goes down well at work! I used Nigella’s recipe from her book ‘Nigella Express’. They are fairly easy to make as they only have a few ingredients; butter, chocolate, golden syrup, rich tea biscuits and marshmallows. They look … Continue reading
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Mother’s Day biscuits
I made these coffee and walnut biscuits for my Mum for Mother’s Day. They are light and crispy. I used letter stamps (you can buy them from Lakeland) to stamp ‘Happy Mothers Day’ on the larger biscuits.
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Chocolate banana muffins
These are a favourite; quick and easy to make – as well as eat! Plus I still have some very ripe bananas to use up…. The recipe is adapted from one of Nigella’s. I made some with a spoonful of … Continue reading
Chocolate marble banana bread
So I needed a recipe to use up some overripe bananas and also the chocolate ganache frosting from my birthday cake yesterday. This banana loaf seemed ideal to share with my colleagues: http://roxanashomebaking.com/chocolate-marble-banana-bread-recipe/ It has a generous helping of chocolate … Continue reading
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