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Friday 23 March 2012

Baking Tips: Cheesecake

Our top tip for baking cheesecake is to cook it using a water bath (sometimes called a bain marie).

You do this by placing your filled cake tin, onto a large piece of foil and fold it up around the sides of the tin. Then place the cake tin in a roasting tin and fill the roasting tin with about 5mm of water.


This water bath will stop the cheesecake drying out so you get a nice finish on your cheesecake with no little creases or cracks.

Thursday 15 March 2012

Birthday Cake

Growing up in a house full of boys, my mother-in-law has never had a birthday cake made for her, can you believe it? So, I created a yummy white chocolate and berry cake for her recent birthday.

I took some inspiration from one of Lorraine Pascale's cakes, (http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/i_cant_believe_you_made_90494) but changed it to a vanilla cake and white chocolate with berries, rather than a milk chocolate cake. I also used chocolate stick fingers rather than milk chocolate cigeroles.

I was really pleased with how it turned out and was devoured very quickly by all the boys!


P.S I am loving Marshmallow fluff right now - great lower calorie filler for whoopie pies and even just tastes good on a slice of toast (honestly)!!

Sunday 4 March 2012

Twitter...

We have gone all hi-tec and got ourselves a twitter account....

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Stay tuned for more!

Thursday 23 February 2012

Cardamon...

...not usually something you would associate with baking (more like curries!) but after checking out Jamie Olivers website, it is mentioned quite a lot in a few recipes, so thought I would experiment and give adding it to my baking a go.

First I made blueberry, orange & cardamon bread rolls...


They are sooo messy to make but lots of fun and really yummy!

I also tried adding cardamon to a banana loaf recipe (minus the bananas). It adds a nice spicy flavour that does work really well (and it tastes delish with a cup of herbal tea).

Super Chocolate Mousse...

This chocolate mousse is super for three reasons:

1. Super quick
2. Super easy
3. Super cheap

It seriously takes 5 minutes to make, 30 mins to set in the fridge and tastes amazing! I have also tried by adding a dash of orange juice and some orange zest (as my hubby loves chocolate orange), which also works really well.

Leftovers...

We had friends over for Pancake Day a few days ago, for pancakes, funnily enough. I got lots of different toppings in for all of our guests like the usual golden syrup, lemon and sugar.

I laos got in one of my favourite toppings; nutella and banana (it tastes amaze honestly)! Apparently not many of our guest are fans of those pancakes as we had so many bananas left over!

So with quite a cold day the following day, my baby boy and I decided to stay in and make a banana loaf and cinnamon and banana breakfast muffins - there are loads of possibilities with bananas. They aren't much to look at (hence why there aren't any pictures), but they taste great for a bit more of a savoury treat.

Sunday 19 February 2012

Bake sale

My little sister asked me to help make some buns for a charity bake sale at school and of course I jumped at the chance. Baking and helping a good cause at the same time, how can you resist!? However, I got a little bit carried away and was baking late into the night.

I didn't make any buns in the end. First I made some cake pops: Vanilla with white chocolate icing and hundreds and thousands and double chocoate with chocolate sprinkles! Yum!





Next I chose to adapt a bake sale favourite - rice krispies and made a rather delicious chocolate, fudge, peanut butter, rice krispie bar concoction. The bottom layer is corn syrup with peanut butter mixed with rice krispsies, put into a deep baking tin then I melted chocolate and fudge together to make the top layer. Wait for it to set then cut into bars! Simples.




Then I decided to experiment even more! I saw how to make honeycomb on the Great British Bake Off on BBC a while ago and thought it looked great fun and so I gave it a go. To be honest, I found it really simple and when it set I simply snapped it, weighed it into sweet bags and tied it up.



The bake sale was a success, so I hear, which is good news all round.

The honeycomb also gave me an idea for Crunchie-inspired cake pops. Watch this space....