Frances Bakes

Carrot cake cupcakes

Posted on May 31, 2015 by francesray28

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 few times recently so I decided to make some, but as cupcakes instead of a big cake as lots of people tend to prefer their own personal mini cake!

The Hummingbird Bakery have a section on their website of Recipe FAQs and state that you can just use their carrot cake recipe to make cupcakes. I found it made 24 cupcakes, though there was a LOT of icing and I still have some left over after icing all 24.

https://hummingbirdbakery.com/blog/faqs/the-hummingbird-bakery-cookbook/

Here is the finished article:

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A special cake for World Baking Day

Posted on May 17, 2015 by francesray28

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 their Curly Whirly cake; a rich chcolate cake covered in a vanilla bean cream-cheese frosting.

I found the recipe online, so you can try it out for yourself: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/10782866/Konditor-and-Cooks-Curly-Whirly-Cake-recipe.html 

Hope it tastes good!!

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Lovely lemon drizzle cake

Posted on April 12, 2015 by francesray28

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, cooling in their tins with the icing on top:

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Rock cakes!

Posted on April 8, 2015 by francesray28

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 lack of cakes; mainly from those of you on the 20th floor! So by popular request I’ve made some rock cakes for tomorrow.

You can see the recipe here (for you Poles, yes there is actually a pot of spices you can buy called ‘mixed spice’ – you don’t have to make your own!)

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2198645/sugar-and-spice-rock-cakes

And here’s the finished product:

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Easter Baking

Posted on March 29, 2015 by francesray28

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 eggs.

http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/537764/chocolate-cornflake-nests

Happy Easter!!

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Rocky Road

Posted on March 29, 2015 by francesray28

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 good finished with a dusting of icing sugar: