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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The perfect pavlova AS MADE BY MY MOTHER CAROLLE MORPETH
Posted in Desserts/Puddings, Technique on 8 May 2009 |
The wonderful lady at Fair Cakes shared her perfect cup cake and buttercream icing recipes on her facebook and websites so I thought I would add this to my webpages as well as it truly is the easiest and most reliable recipe I’ve ever tried. Note of caution, if you double up, don’t double up [...]
Fruit tealoaf recipe
Posted in Desserts/Puddings, Technique on 21 April 2009 |
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, [...]
I’ve always wanted to learn how to ice cakes properly, from the plain but perfectly finished hard icings to faultless buttercream swirls. I’ve been following a few websites from cup cake experts, in particular Fair Cakes through facebook run by Shikhita who just makes the buttercream swirls look so amazingly easy but aren’t! I haven’t [...]
January 2009
Posted in Desserts/Puddings, Event cakes, Parties, Technique on 17 April 2009 |
As part of ‘Bampa’s 60th birthday celebrations we went out for a meal in a local restaurant. We decided to make a bit of a fuss for this family meal and turned up with balloons to make him smile. I made a coffee and walnut sponge which was really nice, very light and crumbly. Here’s [...]
A history of cakes/puddings/tarts I’ve made
Posted in Event cakes, Parties, Technique on 13 April 2009 |
I decided to write a blog about all the tarts, cakes, puddings, biscuits and muffins I make. This is for a number of reasons, in no particular order: I seem to make a lot for friends and family I wanted to keep a record of when things worked out well, what was liked/disliked I wanted [...]
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