Baked cheesecake

 A detour from cupcakes to show that it’s not all about sponge…our friends came over for lunch on Saturday and I decided to make a blueberry cheesecake.  The base wasn’t as crunchy as it should have been but it was ok. Our friends had seconds so mustn’t have been that bad!

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Lemon Meringue Pie for a family BBQ

For the family BBQ this weekend I made lemon meringue pie (with raspberries). The recipe came from BBCGoodFood again. I really must expand my recipe research horizons! I was quite pleased with the pastry as it was just on the right side of biscuity. I had misread the oven temperature though so cooked it on [...]

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Lemon cheesecake

This weekend I mostly baked lemon cheesecake. Just to make sure that I could do the whole cheesecake thing really. And I think it was successful, if a little undercooked which just made it a lot more yummy. Anyway both our guests and the girls ate half they daily calorie allowance in one slice very [...]

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The perfect pavlova AS MADE BY MY MOTHER CAROLLE MORPETH

Earlier in the blog I featured one of the many pavlova’s I’ve made. A couple of people have been asking me for the recipe so I thought I’d write it up here for all to share in the perfect, gooey, crunchy, sticky pavlova. 3 egg whites 6oz caster sugar 1 level tsp cornflour 1 tsp [...]

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Double Chocolate Cheesecake

Last weekend we had a BBQ with our neighbours and I set myself the weekly cake task for the event. Last week I thought about things that I’ve really not cooked very often and sought inspiration from cookbooks and the internet and decided upon cheesecake. Cheesecake is one of those puddings that either makes me [...]

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Chocolate Beetroot cake

On Friday I made the recipe from BBC Good Food for blitz and bake chocolate and beetroot cake was really interesting in the way the ingredients were put together and resulted in a lovely purple tinged chocolate cake. Perhaps my oven is hotter as I think the 1 hour cooking time was too long. Still [...]

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Next: Beetroot and chocolate cake

This weekend I am setting myself the task of another fruit tealoaf – this time with a different flavoured tea and also a beetroot and chocolate cake. I use the BBC Good Food website a lot as they have some great recipes and do a ‘cake of the week’ special. I’ve been meaning to try [...]

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Fruit tealoaf recipe

Here’s the recipe I tried out for my fruit tealoaf 9oz mixed fruit – I used 3oz each of sultanas, raisins and apricots 8fl oz rooibos tea 5oz butter 6oz sugar 7oz plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp ginger 1/2 tsp nutmeg zest and juice of half lemon 2 eggs, [...]

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Tealoaf….gap in the market?

I’ve been musing over the last day or two about teabreads. I had a daydream about a teabread I used to make with my mum which came from the Stork Cookbook (!?!) and had fruit soaked in hot tea and then butter and sugar added over a moderate heat before adding flour and eggs when [...]

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March 2009

March was a good month for baking cakes. I made this fresh cream and raspberry swill roll for lunch at a friend’s house in Shenfield which was nicely lemony and light. I still haven’t quite got the knack of rolling them up so they have more than one ‘turn’ in the middle. Perhaps I’m over [...]

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