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  • Brown Butter & Plum cake

    Brown Butter & Plum cake

    Wonderful brown butter icing, which I would use in many circumstances; fresh, home made plum jam that I deliberately made more liquid than a normal jam – resulting in some……

  • 3pm Biscuits

    3pm Biscuits

    I love these. They are dangerous. From Sift

  • Sift: Festive Buns

    Sift: Festive Buns

    These are a wonderful hot cross bun, and I would absolutely repeat them, even though making enriched bread in a cold kitchen in the depth of winter is an act…

  • Soft and Chewy Oat Cookie

    This is my favourite cookie, I think. You get a different texture depending on the time in the oven. 12 minutes for prominently soft cookie, 14 or 15 for a…

  • Brownies Part Four

    Modifications to KAF fudge brownies 171g 70% cocoa chocolate, 24.3g fat per 100g (41.55g fat in this amount) 115g butter ~1 Tbsp Dutch process cocoa powder Only light brown muscavado…

  • Brownies Part Three

    The Gellatly Brownie Really, really excellent. Dense and fudgy, although it is possibly getting the advantage of being the first one I’ve not over-baked. In fact if anything I underbaked…

  • Brownies Part Two

    Using the previously mentioned showdown written up here as inspiration for the next step in the brownie perfecting process, I decided to try the King Arthur’s Flour recipe as well…

  • Brownies

    Starting with Tasty: https://tasty.co/recipe/the-best-fudgy-brownies Which everyone seems to love, however I halved the quantities and didn’t sufficiently reduce the baking time, so they were overcooked rendering them officially “not brownies”…

  • Light Fruit Cake

    Light Fruit Cake

    This is Nigel Slater’s gooseberry crumble cake (minus the gooseberry and the crumble) and 260g of soaked dried fruit. And it’s great. I skewed the ratio of flour to almond…

  • Croissants: flour showdown

    Croissants: flour showdown

    On test: Plain flour, protein 11.3% Bread flour, protein 12% 00 flour, protein 12.5% Plain flour is surprisingly excellent for croissants, takes a good bit of kneading, and this isn’t…