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“Help!!!” I had a question/comment from a reader last week asking me what the conversions are for the Peggy Porschen Lemon Limoncello cake. She uses American cups to measure ingredients and as I am here in sunny England we use grams. I’ve have attempted (unsuccessfully I might add) to use cup measurements in the past. …
I fell in love with Clafoutis a few months ago and vowed to create a recipe that matched the one I had in Norfolk. It’s a French dessert made with a custard (or batter mix to you and me) which is baked in a really hot oven until all puffed up. There’s a lot of …
I made a really yummy chocolate and cherry cake last week and finally had a go at covering it with chocolate ganache. Up until now whenever I have made ganache it’s always been mixed in with buttercream for a cake filling or just as a really delicious layer of chocolatiness before a fresh cream filling …
Cakes gone by… One of Beau’s good friends at school is a girl called Ella. When it was her 7th Birthday a few weeks after Beau’s we all got snowed in. Ella lives at the top of a dead end road at the top of a hill and there was no way of getting a …
This is what Paul’s White cob loaf looks like – Taken from the book ‘How to Bake’ So, as I said yesterday, bread is not my thing. So when I set about making this loaf for the first time I was a little apprehensive! But my worries were completely unfounded. ‘How to bake’ by Paul …
If there was ever a man to teach me how to bake its’s Paul Hollywood. I mean is it me or does he have the bluest eyes on TV? Now I know that I should start a book review with “This is what this book is all about” but really! You can’t get past them. …
