I recently had a request from someone to do a video making sponge cake. So I have decided that over the next few weeks I shall do three different types of sponge cake. First up is a Victoria Sandwich, but this one is using the all-in-one method from Mary Berry’s recipe. This is where all […]
Having made my speculaas last week I was so enamoured of the flavour of the spices that I wanted to make something else with them too. I decided to make some cupcakes and was all set to go when I discovered a recipe on Bakingmad for ginger and cinnamon cupcakes. Although I wanted to use the […]
Today I decided on a rather decadent cake, if there is such a thing. A sour cream cake, with some ground hazelnuts in it, in two layers and to be filled with a basic hazelnut buttercream. So I needed to make two cakes and then the buttercream filling. I also decided, at the last minute […]
Who doesn’t enjoy a cupcake from time to time? Certainly I do!. So today I decided to make some. I had bought some White Peach purée, which was supposedly to be used for making cocktails but which I thought would be ideal for baking too. So I looked around for a recipe that might […]
After a lovely trip to Prague I am back in baking mode. Today I made some lovely cupcakes, from a recipe I found on Tea At Midnight, from a link on Google+. It was Lime and Pistachio Cupcakes which I thought would very probably be delicious. The recipe at the link above is for […]
I love sponge cake and wanted to produce some individual ones, so I started searching to see if there were any recipes out there. I found one on baking mad, which seemed ideal for my purposes. So that is the recipe I used, except that I couldn’t find orange blossom water, so I had […]
Chocolate Brownies are an all time favourite, so when I saw a recipe for a cupcake version, with a buttercream topping, on Joyofbaking I just had to make some. This is another very simple recipe, and the end results are very pleasing indeed, a moist chocolate brownie consistency, with the added pleasure of the […]
After my last bake I had some frosting left in the fridge, so I decided to use it up by making some Chocolate and Hazelnut cupcakes. Chocolate and hazelnut is always a good combination and I think the addition of the mild apricot flavor in the buttercream makes a great topping. The recipe I followed […]
I had intended to make a Victoria Sponge cake with a pineapple filling. But I had to change my plan, part way through. Even after draining the crushed pineapple it was far to wet to contemplate putting in the middle of the cake. It would also not mix well with a buttercream filling, making that […]
A Victoria Sandwich is a sponge cake, in two layers, filled with a cream or butter cream and with jam. I used a recipe from Funky Foods, courtesy of an article by Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall. In this recipe he says to weigh the eggs and use that weight as the basis to determine how much […]