As much as I’d love this to be a ‘dust off the new year diet-inducing cobwebs from the cake mixer’ post, reality is it’s not. Your cake mixers can continue to gather the dust but you CAN bake your (mixer-less) cake and eat it […]
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Good things come in small pastries: Banana tarlets + toffee sauce
Pastries and anything to do with dough are two things that scare me. I throw in the towel whenever I’m faced with a challenge like that and I don’t even know why. Maybe it’s because I feel that it’s so easy to get something like […]
Rustic autumnal pleasure: Pear + stem ginger cake
This season, I feel like a newborn experiencing everything for the first time. I don’t know if until now my vision has been selective or all I’m seeing now has never been there in the first place but it feels like this is the first […]
Recycling Sundays: Moist date loaf
Type in baking into Google and you get over forty-one million results in 0.21 seconds. I’m stating the obvious here but it means that in not even one second but in less than HALF a second, Google can find more than forty-one million results on […]
Beautiful imperfection: Strawberry sponge cake
Here’s a list of every baker’s top 10 worst nightmares (in order of frustrating-ness; #10 being the most ‘I’m going to pull my hair out and throw a tantrum and get in a mood with myself and everyone’ frustrating): Getting all your ingredients together for […]
Extremely lemony: Lemon drizzle cake
Quick joke: What kind of cake does Snoop Dogg like? Lemon drizzle cake. Geddit? Okay, I digress. Lemon drizzle cake has to be the most weekendy cakes to eat. It’s perfect for days when you feel like baking but you don’t really want the extra […]