Tag: cake
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Light Fruit Cake
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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…
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Cupcakes – rise and crumb testing
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Using the new ambient temperature oven thermometer and feeding in ideas from the CupcakeJemma video, this is a comparison of my favourite recipe vs hers. It’s following on from the…
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Bara Brith
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No egg or butter! Although in this case it seems like the butter situation is usual, while there is normally an egg. Honestly this is just delicious, and while I…
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Chocolate and raspberry cake
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Butterless! And delicious! Another chocolate cake that uses some cornflour, so I’m happy to conclude it’s necessity for proper chocolate cake. The recipe actually uses blackberries, which would be great…
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Sweet, tender butter cake
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Wonderful, soft, flavoursome cake. Reduced sugar to 100g and I think that’s correct. Used fresh blueberries on top, which worked, but is not attractive and you could go on other…
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Fairy Cakes
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Love this recipe from Peyton & Byrne, it results in cloud soft, moist, flavoursome cakes. However as written in my oven it gives them a bit of an exterior crisp…
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Sticky Ginger cake
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Come November and the winter urges set upon me, the cosy, warmly lit nights, the pumpkin pie, the mulled cider and the spiced cake. I’d never made a ginger cake…
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Cinnamon Fruit (Christmas) Cake
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Double the mixture makes 3 of the small round tins. Threw in some clove spice also. Fruit was mixed with cointreau, also used to feed the cake. The small tins…
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Black Forest Gateaux
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This was wonderful, we did not have enough kirsch and the shortage was felt, but with more this would be spot on. From https://www.alsothecrumbsplease.com/authentic-black-forest-cake/
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The Bogtrotter Experiment
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Well this experiment was meant to last for a while, but oh well. Here it is, the source of the recipe remembered with little fanfare not long after the…