Cakes

Chocolate Icing for Kids (dairy free)

January 7, 2013
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This dairy-free icing is perfect for kid’s tastebuds or adults who have a sweet tooth.  It’s the chocolate icing I made for my Dairy-free Easy Quick Light Chocolate Cakes here.  You can increase the amount of cocoa powder, turning it less sweet and more of a darker-tasting chocolate. One of the difference when using dairy-free […]

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Muscovado Sugar (unrefined brown sugar) – the difference it can make

November 11, 2012
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What may appear to be a simple baking question I find often brings about a complicated answer, and no, it’s not because I like being particularly nerdy in detail with all things food, it really comes down to baking being a complex area once you start delving into it, honest.  (I’m slightly smiling here as […]

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Easy Quick Light Chocolate Cakes

October 24, 2012
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This is the simplest easiest chocolate cake recipe which makes a very light crumb cake, cheap too as it only uses cocoa powder and vegetable oil and those two ingredients are why the cake is so light. It’s sweet enough for the kids, both the 5 year old and 17 year old have made their […]

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Banana Cake – best banana flavour cake

October 7, 2012
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If you want a cake that tastes strongly of natural banana flavour then this is it, it’s supercharged with banana flavour.  The texture is cake-like, moist but at the same time soft and crumbly.  Some banana cakes have a chewy slightly rubbery texture, this is most definitely not one of those, it’s delicate enough to […]

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Dutch Fruit Pudding

September 15, 2012
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After making the Dutch Cake in the post here, I made versions of this as a pudding, served either individually like these blackberry ones or in one large dish as the plum version below.  Other fruits like apricots, peaches, raspberries or blueberries could be used instead. I’ve jotted down notes below. What’s obvious about using the […]

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Dutch Cake Dairy-Free Version

September 15, 2012
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This dairy-free version took far longer to create than I had anticipated, I made four attempts.  Yesterday I made 3 cakes in succession and I was about to give up for the day when finally the last one turned out as I wanted. For the original recipe on Dutch Apple Cake see here. As you […]

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Dutch or Norwegian Apple Cake

September 12, 2012
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I don’t know why this cake comes under both names. I have this method of making cake in my 1970′s Marks & Spencer Cakes Pastries and Bakes book, in there it’s called Norwegian Apple Cake and I have exactly the same recipe including the same ingredient amounts in my Darina Allen’s Easy Entertaining book published […]

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Happy 5th Birthday!

July 18, 2012
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The 4 yr old turns 5 today and she’s had an incredible achievement in the last year.  Her walking has improved immensely and she only uses her frame during school play time mainly to protect herself against other children running into her.  Her determination, smiley disposition and sharp wit will carry her far in life […]

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Brown Butter Madeleines

May 30, 2012
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I think madeleines will be a life-long quest for me, will keep on trying different recipes and eventually homing in my own recipe of a madeleine that is both light and moist. Last year’s gluten-free madeleine made with chestnut flour here were good on the moisture front but the lumpy chestnut flour gave the texture of the […]

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How To Make Brown Butter, Beurre Noisette

May 30, 2012
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Melt the butter on a medium heat. Once melted it will begin to foam.

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Dan’s Double Chocolate Lamingtons – too good for lamingtons (dairy-free, soya-free)

April 23, 2012
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The 4 year old asked for chocolate brownies yesterday and I made these instead, she calls herself the “brownie monster” and when I told her I was making chocolate lamingtons not brownies she made that pout face of disapproval but I converted her as soon as I let her try some of the sponge. It’s a moist […]

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Spelt, Carrot, Pineapple, Allspice Cake

January 23, 2012
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I will return to making this cake again and add more photos. Yesterday I wanted to make a cake for Bikerboy’s birthday weekend and one of his favourite cakes is Carrot Cake but he also loves pineapple which reminded me there are recipes somewhere in my books for Passion Cake containing pineapple, some of the […]

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Something Missing in the Fabulous Baker Brothers Chocolate Cake Recipe

January 22, 2012
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I made this cake after seeing it on the Channel 4 programme The Fabulous Baker Brothers presented by Tom and Henry, the recipe is here.  It seemed a straight forward flourless chocolate cake, there are quite a few recipes out there including this one on my blog here.  What intrigued me was the end result of […]

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In Search Of Yeast Cake For Allergy Kid

January 17, 2012
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I want to make allergy kid a cake.  I’ve made allergy kid cakes in the past and if you have various allergies this is a good blog, Eggless Baking, but the recipes for cake which don’t have egg will have things like nuts or soya.  The recipes that don’t have any ingredient on her allergy-intolerant […]

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Chestnut & Almond Cake – Gluten-free, Dairy-free

November 19, 2011
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It has taken longer than I intended to post this recipe because cake number two and three didn’t turn out as planned when experimenting and I wanted to make certain by the fourth one I had ironed out problems. The cake has a lovely mousse texture, very soft, although in photos it appears solid, it’s […]

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