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There is a good reason I should stick to baking cakes and not go anywhere near bread. It just doesn’t work for me! I mean I love the texture of a bread dough as it’s soooo soft and malleable compared to what I am used to kneading – cold hard sugarpaste! But as a blogger …
Chocolate Madeira cake recipe One of the most popular posts here on Cakes Bakes and Cookies is my mum’s Madeira Cake recipe so it should come as no surprise that I have been asked so many times for the ingredients needed to make a chocolate Madeira cake. After all it does make a superb wedding …
No, I’m not talking about The Great British Bake off (which everyone still seems to be talking about). I’m talking about those crazy bakers over at the Baking Mad website. They contacted me last month to see if I would like to link up with them and after a little persuasion (I was knee deep …
Buttercream is one of those parts of cake decorating that I do without really thinking about it, which is why it’s never really occurred to me to share my recipe with you all. That is until I was asked to by a reader. I mean I have included the recipe in the past but when …
As promised here is the Lemon tart recipe from Leiths latest book Leiths How to Cook (Quadrille, £30). Photograph: Peter Cassidy. (see the whole book review here) oks sooooo good! Lemon tart Serves 6 1 quantity pâte sucrée (below) Extra flour, to dust For the filling 3 lemons 6 eggs, plus 1 extra yolk 150–170g caster …
Every now and again I come across a cook book that is just fab. A real authority on everything cooking and baking. This is one of those books. It’s thick. I mean it’s really, really heavy. In fact to prove a point I have weighed it and it is 2.3kg. Now that is a whole lotta …
