I do love chocolate cake and I have made several different versions of the last few years. This particular cake though is, perhaps, my favourite. It has such a rich and satisfying flavour that a very first mouthful will have you coming back for more. That rich flavour comes from the cocoa in the cake […]
I do love a rich chocolate cake, with a lovely ganache. So I decided to make a Devil’s Food Cake, but including a layer of raspberry jam too since I think that goes so well with chocolate cake. Wanting to keep things simple I did the bare minimum of work but to get the best […]
I have to make a cake for a great-niece whose birthday will be soon. She really enjoys chocolate cake with ganache. So in preparation for that I decided to make a simple version of a chocolate sponge, with two layers and to sandwich them together with a layer of raspberry jam and chocolate ganache. Then […]
I wanted to make some doughnuts. So the other day I made up a small batch of dough I made two jam doughnuts. That worked very well, though I overfilled them. Today I thought I would make some doughnuts for the blog, but ring doughnuts, rather than filled ones, as a first attempt, so to […]
I saw another lovely recipe on Donal Skehan’s site. It was for a muffin made with the pulp of juiced carrots and apples with ginger. I was intrigued and decided to make a version of my own, but using carrot pulp only. Certainly this recipe is a novel use of the pulp left over from […]
After the success of my puff pastry for the Pithiviers I decided to make some more, and this time to use it to make Mille Feuille, known in the USA as Napoleon Pastry. Traditionally the layers of crispy puff pastry are filled with creme patissier. However since some of the ‘tasters’ are not so keen […]