It was the hubby's birthday this week so naturally I had to bake him something sweet. The hubby settled on carrot cake in the end, mainly because we still can't get any self raising flour anywhere. We had to settle for wholemeal self raising flour in the end, meaning we needed a wet recipe, so [...]
Made lemon chiffon cake for my birthday last week. I love lemon flavoured things, especially lemon chiffon cake. We used a recipe from Nigella Lawson who was apparently inspired by Konditor and Cook, and I'm not surprised as the best shop bought lemon cake I ever had was from Konditor. Here are the ingredients we [...]
So I've been thinking about baking recently and looked back at recent pictures of cakes I've baked. And it turns out that I apparently like baking different variations of Victoria Sponge. I know two recipes that work quite well, both from the Good Housekeeping: The Baking Book that I have. Essentially one recipe uses self-raising [...]
So I made brownies for the first time ever last month using an ex-colleague's "fail proof" recipe. And I've got to admit: it's been pretty fail proof so far. I like moist brownies, but not always the ones where there is caramel or chocolate oozing from the centre after the first bite - with those [...]
I haven't baked cookies or biscuits in a long time, maybe since last Christmas. But let's be honest, it wasn't really me baking, it was more the hubby and I was "overseeing". I suppose, likewise, these biscuits weren't really baked by me either. For some reason the hubby wanted to bake some home-made biscuits and [...]
I have seen this food festival but only walked past it for a couple of years now and this year we finally went to it. Part of the Tower of London, tickets give you entrance to the Tower too, so essentially a double visit. If you are a Historic Royal Palaces member then of course you [...]
Carrot cake has become my new go-to cake. It's so easy to make and decorate, it's hard to go wrong really. I've made this several times now, and each time I'm learning more and more, and each time they get tastier and tastier! Quick snapshot of the cake ingredients, showing the brands I use. The [...]
We had booked afternoon tea at 11 Cadogan Gardens for the weekend after Valentines Day but I was too ill to make it: I had a cold and had lost my sense of hearing, smell, and taste; so we postponed it. 11 Cadogan Gardens were lovely and very understandable and were very happy to accept [...]
Endless May Dreams 