Baking Tips
10 SECRETS TO BETTER BAKING…
10 secrets to better baking – Leave your cake on a wire rack in the tin you have baked it in for 5 minutes before you turn it out. When making your cake, leave the […]
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Baking
7 TIPS ON USING YOUR OVEN TO BAKE A CAKE
If you don’t have a skewer or something similar to check your cake try using a piece of dried spaghetti instead. Before putting your cake mixture into the oven, tap the cake tin on a […]
Baking Tips
Baking
7 QUICK TIPS ON BAKING CAKES…
When baking shortbread cookies, substitute half of your plain flour with cornflour. It gives them a really nice taste. Before icing a cake, sprinkle the top with some flour, this will stop the icing from […]
Baking
A FEW HANDY BAKING TIPS…
When baking shortbread cookies, substitute half of your plain flour with cornflour. It gives them a really nice taste. Before icing a cake, sprinkle the top with some flour, this will stop the icing from […]
Baking
8 GREAT TIPS ON BAKING PASTRY
For the flakiest upper pie crust, brush the top lightly with cold water before baking. To avoid your pie crust from becoming too soggy, sprinkle it with equal parts of sugar and flour before adding […]
Baking
A GREAT GIFT FOR ANY TEA, CAKE AND CHOCOLATE DEVOTEE…
I have just published my book ‘A Little Book on Tea Cake & Chocolate‘, which would make a great gift for anyone who loves tea, cake and chocolate. This little book on tea and cake is […]
Baking Tips
Baking
BEAUTIFUL DANISH PASTRY IN SKAGEN, DENMARK…
We had a recent one week’s cruise to Bruges in Brussels, Copenhagen and Skagen in Denmark and Oslo in Sweden. The weather was beautiful apart from in Oslo where it was dull and damp but […]
Baking
5 TIPS TO HELP YOU MASTER THE ART OF BAKING BREAD…
Bread making can be pretty intimidating and everybody that has tried it has had at least one major disaster. There’s nothing more disappointing than opening the oven hoping to find a beautifully risen loaf of […]
Baking
SCRUMPTIOUS FOOD SATURDAY
It’s back again, Scrumptious Food Saturday, I have no idea where the last seven days disappeared to but I’m back with my choice of three websites with Scrumptious in their title. The three I am going […]
Cakes
ONE OF MY FAVOURITE CAKE RECIPES PASSED DOWN FROM MY MUM
One of my favourite cake recipes passed down from my Mum is Spiced Fruit Cake. Spiced Fruit Cake Ingredients One 150 g Marg or Butter 6 level tbsp golden syrup 250g raisins 250g currants 120g […]
Baking Pastry
10 SECRETS TO BETTER BAKING
10 secrets to better baking – Leave your cake on a wire rack in the tin you have baked it in for 5 minutes before you turn it out. When making your cake, leave the […]
Baking
CARROT LOAF CAKE FOR INTERNATIONAL CARROT DAY 2018…
Have you heard of International Carrot Day 4th April 2018? The Carrot Day was founded 2003 to spread knowledge about the carrot and its good attributes around the world. The day is increasingly popular and […]
Fruit Teas
THE RAREST JAPANESE TEA …
GYOKURO ASAHI TEA is the rarest Japenese tea of all, being grown in the Kyoto region under special bamboo shades to control the amount of sunlight to the plants. ‘Gyokuro Asahi’ translates to ‘noble dewdrop’ in […]