Ever struggle with what to get for the baker in your life? If they’re anything like me they probably already have just about every baking related thing ever invented (slight exaggeration there!). How about a hamper full of stocking fillers like baking supplies or small items of bakeware? Or a novelty gift? I’d be happy to receive something like this and often ask for flavourings or piping nozzles in my…
Baking
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Apple Crumble Cake
A colleague at work brought in a bag full of cooking apples from his tree, free to anyone who wanted some. I took 6 and decided to have a try at my first apple crumble cake. I adapted an apple crumble cake recipe I found on Pinterest for self raising flour (I’m out of baking powder)… Here’s the result. 🙂 You will need 7″ (18cm) round cake tin 75g unsalted…
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Weight Watchers cupcake recipe
It’s National cupcake week and mum asked if I could bake some Weight Watchers friendly cupcakes for her to take to her weekly meeting. I used a Weight Watchers cupcake recipe found in the online community and made a few changes (removed the added salt, used a different way of decorating and flavouring). Makes: 12 cupcakes Pro points value per serving: 4 You will need 110 g Caster Sugar 110…
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My go to cupcake recipe
I love to bake, especially cupcakes. Typically I’ll bake cupcakes for any holiday throughout the year – birthdays, Easter, Halloween, Christmas etc. This week is National Cupcake Week in the UK so I thought I’d share my go to cupcake recipe which is the basis for most of the cupcakes I bake. Makes: 12 cupcakes Ingredients 125g butter 125g Self raising flour 125 Caster sugar 2 Eggs 1/2 tsp Vanilla…
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Magic Roundabout Flake Cake
Mum’s birthday is next week but we’re celebrating this weekend with breakfast out, a bit of shopping and an evening meal. My job is to bring the cake! Mum loves The Magic Roundabout, especially the characters Brian and Zebedee, so I decided to make cake themed around that. I decided on a flake cake because 1. She likes flakes and 2. I’ve done similar cakes to this (with chocolate fingers)…
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Minion Cake
My dad’s birthday was this weekend, he really enjoys the Despicable Me films so I decided to bake him a minion cake. My first ever character cake! I used a 9″ x 13″ sheet pan and used a vanilla sponge receipe for the cake itself. The one I use is designed for a 7″ round tin but it worked well for this – no batter spillage and baked well! Yay!…
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Dinosaur cookies
With the release of Jurassic World this month, I made these Dinosaur cookies to celebrate. Jurassic Park was one of my favourite films as a child and I’ve been excited to see the new film since I heard it was in production. You will need 2 tsp Vanilla Extract 2 Egg(s) 2 cup Sugar 2 cup Butter 6 cup Flour Cookie Cutter(s) Method Preheat the oven to 180°C Begin by…
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No yeast pizza
A no yeast pizza recipe –Â usually I keep yeast in my baking cupboard, but occasionally I forget to stock up! This was one of those occasions, so I improvised with self raising flour. It tasted really good and I don’t think it came out too badly for a first try. You will need 90 ml Warm Water 1 tsp Salt Toppings Of Your Choice Pizza Sauce (store bought or…
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Gluten free brownies
Artur is trying to eat gluten free at the moment, to find out if his is intolerance is due to gluten or other types of food. This is one of the gluten free desserts I’ve made him recently. Wish I’d took a better photo of these as they were delicious! You will need 100g butter 200g caster sugar 2 eggs 50g chocolate, melted 1/2 teaspoon gluten-free baking powder 1/2 teaspoon…