Dairy Free

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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Doughnuts Yeast or Baking Powder? (dairy & egg free)

January 3, 2013
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These two types of doughs were my first attempt at making egg and dairy free doughnuts for allergy kid yesterday.  The base for these were taken from a recipe using baking powder kindly sent by Andrew using mash potato.  Doughnut recipes whether they’re a yeast version or use baking powder contain eggs normally, eggs in […]

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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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Baked Stuffed Apples in Pastry Dumplings

October 10, 2012
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This is an old fashion way of baking apples.  I have vague memory of seeing apples treated this way in old cookery books but it was Catherine commenting on my site recently who reminded me of this method.  I was talking to Anne about it when she told she bakes cooking apples this way all […]

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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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Spelt, Allspice, Carrot, Pineapple Cake (dairy-free)

January 23, 2012
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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 recipes also contain carrot and some don’t.  I had less than an […]

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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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Dan Lepard’s Slider Buns with Buffalo Burger

November 11, 2011
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Dan asked Luc, Fergus and I to do a home trial of his slider buns coming out tomorrow in his Guardian column, Luc’s results are here, and Fergus’ buns are here.   What’s so different about these buns?  It’s the method, using a roux method.  I first heard about this from a blogger friend Sunflower […]

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Spelt Apple Cake (dairy-free)

October 7, 2011
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It occurred to me to try spelt flour in a cake when I came across a bakery in St Albans, Hertfordshire,  selling a huge range of baked products using spelt flour.  The other reason was because I have English white spelt flour in the cupboard that is pretty poor quality for bread (I had bought […]

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All In One Meringue Method

October 5, 2011
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I have a friend who’s complaint was she couldn’t make French meringues.   I can understand how people get in a muddle with pastry as the fat melts, breaks the pastry and so on, but with meringue it’s a simple matter of whisking and they’ve always performed for me.  This friend can bake so I […]

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Gooey Meringue Is Not Good & Is Not Pavlova

September 19, 2011
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At the beginning of my cooking life meringue had a defined role in the baking world, crispness.  Over recent years I’ve noticed it has become a substitute for pavlova and I would like to put my case why it shouldn’t.  Meringues when baked to the point the middle is still gooey and soft causes a […]

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Lentil Curry, Spinach Curry with Fresh Apricots

August 21, 2011
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I have to make a note of these curries I quickly made last night otherwise they will be forgotten never to be made again which according to my oldest daughter is a habit of mine.  When I make it again I will take better photos and post those.  It was one of those full days, […]

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