Cakes

Spelt, Carrot, Pineapple, Allspice Cake

January 23, 2012
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I will return to making this cake again and add more photos. Yesterday I wanted to make a cake for Bikerboy’s birthday weekend and one of his favourite cakes is Carrot Cake but he also loves pineapple which reminded me there are recipes somewhere in my books for Passion Cake containing pineapple, some of the [...]

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Something Missing in the Fabulous Baker Brothers Chocolate Cake Recipe

January 22, 2012
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I made this cake after seeing it on the Channel 4 programme The Fabulous Baker Brothers presented by Tom and Henry, the recipe is here.  It seemed a straight forward flourless chocolate cake, there are quite a few recipes out there including this one on my blog here.  What intrigued me was the end result of [...]

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In Search Of Yeast Cake For Allergy Kid

January 17, 2012
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I want to make allergy kid a cake.  I’ve made allergy kid cakes in the past and if you have various allergies this is a good blog, Eggless Baking, but the recipes for cake which don’t have egg will have things like nuts or soya.  The recipes that don’t have any ingredient on her allergy-intolerant [...]

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Chestnut & Almond Cake – Gluten-free, Dairy-free

November 19, 2011
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It has taken longer than I intended to post this recipe because cake number two and three didn’t turn out as planned when experimenting and I wanted to make certain by the fourth one I had ironed out problems. The cake has a lovely mousse texture, very soft, although in photos it appears solid, it’s [...]

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Chestnut Flour Madeleines – Gluten Free

October 30, 2011
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  I’ve been wanting to test out this recipe here for a year, had asked my local health food shop to order some chestnut flour but after a month of waiting they told me they couldn’t get any.  This summer on ordering lots of different flours from Shipton Mill I was delighted to see they [...]

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Spelt Apple Cake (dairy-free)

October 7, 2011
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It occurred to me to try spelt flour in a cake when I came across a bakery in St Albans, Hertfordshire,  selling a huge range of baked products using spelt flour.  The other reason was because I have English white spelt flour in the cupboard that is pretty poor quality for bread (I had bought [...]

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Dan Lepard and his new book: Short & Sweet

September 28, 2011
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It was a coincidence that Bikerboy and I met Dan and David at their home when the first copy of their new book, Short & Sweet  arrived in the country.  We had just finished lunch and Dan was showing the final draft of the book, explaining how they had to insist on the very specific [...]

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In Search of a Good Dairy-free Brownie…

July 10, 2011
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As the title suggests I’m in search of a dairy-free chocolate brownie recipe.  This is my second try, the first attempt I used my usual chocolate brownie recipe from Green & Black’s book which is laden with butter, I replaced that with dairy-free margarine and under-baked them as normal.  Texture wise they turned out good, [...]

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Eggs Make a Difference to the Colour of Cake

May 7, 2011
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I’ve been wanting to try different eggs in a cake recipe for a long time, all because of my Gran’s eggs in Portugal.  I’ve been aware for years that feeding yellow corn to your chicken feed gives the egg yolks a more vibrant deep yellow which will produce the most golden yellow cake imaginable.  My [...]

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I’ve Been Baking…

February 18, 2011
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I’m suppose to be jogging right now, trying to get rid of the stone I’ve manage to catch since the summer but feeling rather puffed out with all the misfortunes with my baking this week…so instead while the 3 year old is kind enough to give me a little break I’m going to explain how [...]

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How To Make: Genoise Cake

February 9, 2011
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Génoise and the Whisked Sponge or Fatless Sponge cake arrive at the same destination; light airy cake, dull unless strong flavours are added.  It’s a perfect light texture to sandwich or cover with rich cream filling.  Here I added 2 teaspoons of clementine rind and 4 tablespoons of clementine juice to the sponge.  I then [...]

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How To Make: Whisked Sponge, Fatless Sponge

February 9, 2011
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I first posted these photos on another page on the blog.  After this post I will be posting the traditional Génoise cake method as well.   You’ll  see how they are similar, with the differences of the Génoise method being whisked over a bain-marie but has no raising agent. To be a little more pedantic [...]

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Work in Progress: Clementine Cake Failure

February 1, 2011
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For a reason unbeknown to me the Winter of 2010-11 and  Citrous Cakes are not meant to be in my household.  At the beginning of winter I went through two or three trials of orange and polenta cake which resulted in a good tasting cake but the texture wasn’t right.  Yesterday my day was a [...]

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Pear & Brown Sugar Cake

January 23, 2011
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I made this cake this morning while in the middle of preparing a special Sunday roast.  My intent was to make one large soufflé but instead I opted to make a cake because it meant I wouldn’t have to think about dessert after lunch, no getting up from the table to pop the soufflé in. [...]

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Light Hazelnut Cake – Two Ways

December 20, 2010
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This is a very light hazelnut cake.  I’m in love with this cake.  I’m very happy eating it plain and humble with no make-up, perfect for me with a cup of coffee, the nuttiness of hazelnut comes through with a lovely texture from the not-so-fine ground hazelnuts.  I’ve been wanting to experiment with a chestnut [...]

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