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 […]
Now that my internet is back to normal, or at least I hope it is, I can post again. So today I have Feta Cheese & Chive Scones. I recently made some Raspberry Scones, with a North American type recipe. These ones today are a more traditional scone texture, though with the feta and chives […]
Today I have a lovely recipe, from BBC Good Food, for a Chocolate Fudge Cake. This is a single layer cake, but could quite easily be turned into two layers by doubling the recipe to create two cakes and then maybe filling with a chocolate buttercream, using some of the frosting from the recipe. […]
Today I baked a lovely Chocolate and Banana Loaf Cake, and topped with a chocolate ganache. This is a simple recipe which I adapted, slightly, from BBC Good Food. That had banana chips on the top as well but I didn’t see the need for them and am always slightly dubious about quite how hard […]
For my final bake before Christmas I decided to make a cheesecake. Cherries always go so well with chocolate that I thought that would be a good idea. I love Morello cherries and have had them in the past, from a jar, where they are soaked in kirsh. So I thought that rather than buying […]
I found a lovely recipe for Sour Cream and Cranberry Muffins on Midwest Living. Reading it just made me want to make them immediately. I had to wait though, until I could buy some more cranberries. So today I set about making them. Sour Cream & Cranberry Muffins The recipe calls for pumpkin pie spice […]
What an enticing prospect a Rhubarb cake is. I found a recipe on a card from Waitrose, for a Rhubard and Soured Cream Cake, with a ginger syrup. The photo on the card looked very nice and reading the recipe made me want to try it. My sister had frozen some rhubarb, from her garden, […]