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First bash at cake pops part two. Like most things you see up here, these were pulled together in a bit of a hurry using ingredients in the cupboard and my convenient local branch of Spar. I chose lemon to match the left over buttercream in my fridge although actually the quantity used here [Read on...] 
Giggly schoolgirls. They saunter towards me cackling in crushed together cliques, not drunk (well I presume not) but barely able to walk in a straight line. They annoy the hell out of me but at the same time I look back in fond memory that I once was one. At school I was one [Read on...] “Oh how we laughed… on the way to the burns unit,” was a favourite witticism of a former colleague whenever someone did something stupid that nearly went horribly wrong. I almost set fire to my hair making these Crepes Suzette. It wasn’t my day, having already dropped the digital SLR camera on the floor, [Read on...] Spotting romantic gestures from my husband requires the expert eye that comes after almost 14 years of being together. I knew to expect this from our first Valentine’s night out together. Trudging around Shepherd’s Bush, totally unprepared, from restaurant to restaurant hunting for a table, we ended up in the usual curry house. Apart [Read on...] 
Ever wanted to be a girl who jumps out of a cake? Me neither, in usual circumstances – but this week was not usual. After 12 failed batches over a period of five months, I finally managed to get the all important FEET on my French macarons. Since my recent revelation about the [Read on...] Apparently some of you enjoy it when I share my failures here. Normally these are culinary disasters involving macarons and lurid pink icing for caterpillar cakes but today I thought I’d give you a laugh at my first tragic attempt to send a valentines card back in 1989. More dog’s breakfast than valentines breakfast. [Read on...] What to do, what to do with a heap of egg yolks from my various macaron making disasters? (See here and here if you haven’t experienced these yet). Having recently done the mince pie ice cream I opted this month for some flavoured custards. First up is chocolate custard pudding. I have based this [Read on...] 
Provence is a place very dear to my heart, I first visited in 1997 and have been back almost every year since. I have been to Arles for Easter, where I saw Provencal ladies dressed in these beautiful costumes but family commitments have thus far prevented me visiting at Christmas. Were I to do [Read on...] 
Passionfruit, chocolate and cream are a heavenly trio in this cake recipe using carrots. Casting directors, as my husband is fond of reminding me, have a habit of choosing Brummies for characters a bit slow on the uptake. A regular Fast Show sketch featured middle class people discussing the hoi polloi when the least brightest [Read on...] 
Chocolate macarons are just as delicious even if you don’t get them right. These were made from a David Lebovitz recipe but before I’d perfected how to do them! Beginner’s luck is a terrible thing. My first macarons, pecan pie with salted caramel fudge filling were a rip roaring success and I’m afraid to say [Read on...] 
Eggplant recipes and chocolate cake are not normally something you’d expect to find in the same sentence but the beautiful cake you see above is made with aubergine (or eggplants depending what you call them). The Heartache Chocolate Cake, featured in Harry Eastwood’s Red Velvet Chocolate Heartache claims to be the new healthier way [Read on...] 
Can pumpkin puree be used to make frosting for cupcakes? Absolutely.See below how I was inspired by this Harry Eastwood (of Cook Yourself Thin) recipe. Going away on holiday is terribly inconvenient when you’re a food blogger. In the last month I’ve had both a weekend away to Provence and a week in Montenegro. In [Read on...] 
This month I have been baking five recipes from Rachel Allen’s Bake. This time I have baked red velvet cake for the first time. Although this is my last Bake Five blog using Rachel Allen’s Bake, I can honestly say that I will go out and buy this book. It’s been a while since I [Read on...] 
The third installment of five recipes I am baking from Rachel Allen’s Bake . Today it is Chocolate & Vanilla Marble Cake. The recipes in Rachel Allen’s Bake are for quite large sizes of cake. Here an 8 inch springform pan was required but I only had a 7 inch one to hand. I [Read on...] Today’s batch are for my Big Lunch girlfriends who are coming round tonight to celebrate our successful Big Lunch Street Party on 19th July. These cakes have a chocolate base and are presented in gold foil cases. On the top I have used Silver Spoon Milk Chocolate Cake Covering. It doesn’t taste so good as [Read on...] The Big Lunch cupcakes were all polished off and I had invited several friends round promising them left over cake. So I had to make some more. I flavoured them with lemon and coloured the icing pale yellow. There were very pretty but I forgot to photograph them and these disappeared quickly too. The [Read on...] Things are hotting up today. Having scattered various trays of cupcakes around the kitchen it is becoming obvious that I need a stand to put them on otherwise I will take over the table at tomorrow’s Big Lunch. I do not as yet own a cake stand so I decide to make one. My own [Read on...] More Big Lunch cupcakes. You cannot see the chocolate base so take my word for it that it is there. I really liked working with melted chocolate – and since I have acquired a microwave since my last occasion melting chocolate I didn’t even have to mess about with the double boiler. Having said [Read on...] Big Lunch cupcakes, continued… these are my favourites so far. Yellow is an easier colour to work with than the others I have tried so far. Above we have decorations as follows: Pink buttercream blobs with Dr Oetker sugar flowers Dr Oetker sugar flowers on their own (is less more? Not sure…) Mini marshmallows [Read on...] More Big Lunch cupcakes… well, this really is a learning curve. I now know that blue food colouring is less intense than pink. Whereas a half teaspoon of blue food colouring was only enough for a pastel blue on yesterday’s batch, today I learn that pink is less forgiving. I got over confident with the [Read on...] |
 
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