Baking

This is my favourite recipe so I thought I would share it with you all. It serves four people and is very tasty. The cake is filled with warm spices and goes well with hot custard! Yum! --- Ingredients and quantities --- Cake: 1x 20cm Square cake tin 50g Breadcrumbs 200g Caster sugar 100g Ground Pecan Nuts 50g Chopped Mixed Candied Peel Zest of one Orange & one Lime 1.5 teaspoons Baking Powder 100ml Ground Nut Oil 100ml Sunflower Oil 4 Eggs Half a Teaspoon of Cinnamon Syrup: Juice of one Orange & one Lemon 70g Caster Sugar 2 Cloves --- ...  Read the complete review

***Carrot Cake*** ---Intro--- It was one of those weekends where hubby had deserted me, and I was left to my own devices, and having already made roasted red pepper soup I decided that I'd make something sweet, but it would have to be something that didn't have any complicated ingredients in it that would require leaving the house to get. I found a recipe for carrot cake online, and since I now know it off by heart I don't think it's plagiarising by sharing it with you! ---What you'll need--- A bowl, a wooden spoon, a baking tray, wire rack, skewer, some greaseproof paper (not absolutely essential though), an oven (this is ...  Read the complete review

I work in an open plan office with a lively, friendly bunch. They also like their food and we have in the past indulged in cheese days on a monthly basis. We soon got bored of this however, there's only so much cheese you can eat even if your name is Gromit (or is it Wallis?!!) Anyway, as an alternative we've settled on cake days, where we all take turns every week to bake a cake of some description and bring them in for all to share. We've had apple cakes, chocolate eclairs, Victoria sponges and rocky road so far, all delicious and of course far too fattening, but who cares when they taste so good with a cuppa at 11am on a cold day? My turn came ...  Read the complete review

I first made these brownies a while ago, and they've now become a favourite of mine! They're very chocolate-y and rich, but also have that nice moist cake texture which you can choose the gooeyness of! This recipe usually makes 12 smaller brownies, or 6 good sized ones! What I really love about this recipe is that you can use proper chocolate, and I'd advise going for Cadburys (or your favourite brand), as it can make the difference between good brownies and GREAT brownies! Equipment: Scales (or good judgement!) Mixing bowl Large saucepan and Heat Proof bowl (suitable for chocolate melting) Wooden Spoon and Tablespoon Chopping ...  Read the complete review

These are absolutely the best chocolate fudge brownies in the world. I'm not entirely sure where this recipe came from; it's one of those ones that's written in someone else's old fashioned handwriting on an old grease spotted piece of yellowed note paper. But don't let my revolting sounding piece of paper put you off! That's how to tell if a recipe is well loved... if the paper is disgusting! I've tweaked it a little from the original. What I love about this recipe is that it uses lots of real chocolate and butter to give the brownies that thick, rich, fudgy consistency. They are thick, heavy, rich and very sweet. Soooo bad for the waistline but once you try ...  Read the complete review