Baking Reviews

As far as I can remember my aunt taught me two things when I was younger. The first was how to sew. I remember sitting on her lap and sewing some doll’s clothes, only to discover that laying the material on your lap and sewing it isn’t the best idea. Despite stabbing my leg several times, I also managed to sew the ...  Read the complete review

I love home made food. I love to eat home made cakes and biscuits and when I have friends around for meetings I love to be able to feed them on home made goodies. There are three recipes I use regularly to feed my visitors. All three recipes are easy to bake and go down very well with my visitors and my family. ANNIES DATE CHEW ...  Read the complete review

In my former life as a sugar eating, pudding baking, cake making fiend..in other words before I was Diabetic, I spent a lot of time making and eating scrummy puds..it doesn’t seem fair now to make them and not eat them, so I tend not to make them..much to the horror of my crew!!! When I did bake a lot a favourite of ours (Mine ...  Read the complete review

I consider myself to be quite a good cook. I do a lot of entertaining especially as my family live 200 miles away and my house is constantly like a b&b. However making pastry has never been my forte. Over the years I have made delicious pie fillings, both savoury and sweet but my pastry has always let me down and I have been tempted to cheat ...  Read the complete review

Once more, this is a recipe invented after trying one of the jars of potato bake, (which I thought was awful!) in this recipe I make the roux sauce in the microwave. The reason I use the microwave is because it is easier, quicker and it cooks out the flour in the butter better, so you are never left with a floury taste to your sauce, try it! ...  Read the complete review

(It doesn't have to be a cake to be in this section does it??) This is something my Mum and Dad used to (still do) serve up to us starving kids; it's basic, it's simple, but it's also tasty and filling - and we always called it Corned Beef Hash. Now, the Corned Beef Hash that I've since found in recipe books is ...  Read the complete review

It's the time of year for pumpkins, and if you have brought one home and made a lantern of it, you may well be looking at the leftover inanrds and thinking, "Now, what can I do with this?" It does seem rather a shame to waste something that looks so edible. I am here to tell you that the thing to do is throw it all aweay, but in case ...  Read the complete review

It’s an old adage, but in my case it also happens to be true. I am cursed with “champagne taste, and a ginger beer income”. And being gregarious I also love ‘entertaining’. (Posh expression for having friends round for a nosh up.) Which presents a slight dilemma! You see crisps, sandwiches, ...  Read the complete review

How did I find this recipe? Well I am not going to lie by saying I invented it but it feels good to say it is a new version of another recipe. I have a cookbook at home with loads of very tempting recipes but every time I go for one I feel obliged to change few ingredients. It is like I can’t follow any instructions. But ...  Read the complete review

WHITE CHOCOLATE CAPPUCCINO GATEAU as cooked by Binty. A luscious cake cooked by an angel and it tastes like it too. My wife makes this cake as a special treat or for when visitors come and stay for a few days. It has been described as luscious, lavish and heavenly. It is laced with liqueur and is strictly for grown ups ...  Read the complete review

Well I know Christmas isn’t here yet but it is time to start thinking about making your cake if you are a serious Christmas cake maker. I am ,it’s one of the things I like to get right. Making the cake a few months before christmas allows the cake to mature and it enriches the flavour dramatically. This recipe has been in ...  Read the complete review

A simple Chocolate Victoria Sandwich Cake recipe will make a good base and then you can go wild with fillings and coverings to make them as fattening, gooey and chocolatey as you want. Chocolate Victoria Sandwich Cake margarine 6oz or 175g caster or soft brown sugar 6oz or 175g 3 medium eggs self-raising flour 5oz 150g ...  Read the complete review

Many years ago, my mother was very kind to an old lady who, as an extra special thanks, gave her her secret recipe for Oat Biscuits. They're really simple to make and very scrummy. Not only that but, since they're made with oats, you can sort of kid yourself that they're not that unhealthy - good for the cholesterol levels? ...  Read the complete review

I'm not big on cakes. Well, I am, if you see what I mean. I love eating them but I'm not all that keen on weighing out ingredients and carefully adding one thing at a time. I'm easily bored. If I ever produce one of those elegant creations that are more work of art than sustenance then you'll know that it's either been ...  Read the complete review

Sickly yes, but we couldn't get enough of the them. Some things bring back memories of school and this is one of them. Remember the slices of shortbread covered in sickly caramel and covered in chocolate. These were one of the 'nice' afters that you could get (my favourite actually was Manchester Tart - a ...  Read the complete review

I love this one its absolutly fantastic INGREDIANTS 225g Basic pie crust 1 onion chopped 15ml olive oil 225g or small tin of chopped toms 2.5ml ground cinnamon 15ml tom puree 5 Frankfurters 100g smoked cheese roll Roll out the pastery and line a 23cm dish pie pan Prick the base with a forkline ...  Read the complete review

I don't know whether you could really class this as gourmet, but it is really nice!! The best thing is that it is really quick to prepare, although by the time you've totalled up the cost of the ingredients probably isn't going to work out that cheap. Ingredients ----------- One ciabatta bread One jar of Lloyd ...  Read the complete review

We recently had a bunch of close friends over at the weekend and we decided to do something different to spice up the night. I got my wife to bake a wonderful Rum Cake and all of my friends and their wives had to have a large slice as soon as they walked through the door of my house. They all loved it so much and the next day my ...  Read the complete review