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Chocolate frangipane, shortbread and nut swirls
These biscuits are based on a method for biscotti eureka, but I have radically altered the recipe – it bears little resemblance to the original now other than the construction method and that…
Bourbon cream sandwich biscuits
I have a bit of a thing with cooking in that I love ‘reverse engineering’ recipes.
Florentines
Recipe for chocolate covered almond, pistachio and cherry Florentines – plus make them extra special with a shortbread base
Orange and chocolate friands
These are based on the Orange-chocolate cake recipe in the ‘La Mere De La Famille’ recipe book by Julien Merceron.
Walnut cake with lemon buttercream
This is an amazingly bouncy walnut sponge topped with a lemon buttercream – this is a change to the traditional coffee and walnut combination but goes beautifully together.
Coconut biscuits with hazelnuts or cherries
What to do when you’ve not got quite enough plain flour in the cupboard, need to make biscuits and can’t be arsed to walk to the shop? Use up what you’ve got in the cupboard and i…
Surprise inside cake – Swiss roll and Madeira
This cake was borne out of another Daring Bakers challenge for a ‘surprise inside’ cake.
Shark infested coconut cupcakes
Well, apparently it’s just been national cupcake week (or should that be fairy cake week as it’s the UK?) Not sure if this has been going on for some time, but I only spotted it in my l…
Chocolate tempering – a visual guide
I got a bit bored with never remembering the crucial temperatures in each part of the tempering process every time I wanted to work with chocolate in my bakes.
Christmas spiced marshmallows
These are a lovely way to get your fix of Christmas spices without having yet another mince pie or bite of gingerbread house.
Esterházy torte – nut dacquoise layer cake
Esterházy cake is a dacquoise layer torte originating in Budapest in the late 1800s.
Apricot, apple and almond Chelsea Buns
I was just thinking I hadn’t made an enriched dough recipe for a while… Background/history of the recipe Chelsea Buns are a specific version of a traditional, rolled enriched and sweete…
Strawberry, almond and pistachio cheesecake sponge
This recipe was taken from the most recent (June 2014) edition of the BBC Good Food magazine, however I had to replace/adapt some of the ingredients and the method a little.
