At Easter I was doing a bit of baking for a big family lunch. I made a full cake from the Chocolate Guinness and Baileys Cupcakes and decided to play around with a recipe for a Lemon Cake too.
Lemon Cake
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French Toast – Two Ways!
French Toast, Pain Perdu, Eggy Bread… the list of names for this dish is endless. They are all essentially the same thing: old bread dipped in egg and milk or cream and fried in butter. The name ‘Pain Perdu’ translates to lost bread as it refers to stale bread that would otherwise have been lost […]
Chocolate Guinness & Baileys Cupcakes
First up an apology to anyone who got an email this morning with a sneak preview of this post, I was having a quick look at the draft and hit publish instead of edit! Mortified for myself. However I think the tease was worth it for these Chocolate Guinness and Baileys Cupcakes. Here it is […]
Flourless Black Forest Cake
Having only relatively recently discovered a love of cherries, Black Forest Gateau was not something on my radar. My enduring memory from having tasted it as a child was the overwhelming flavour of kirsch. That is not a good memory.
Mini Ricotta Doughnuts
…..stuffed with Nutella! (I’ve now looked at the word ‘doughnut’ for too long and it looks completely wrong. I almost went with donuts!)
Chocolate Biscuit Cake
There’s nothing too original about a biscuit cake but sometimes there’s nothing better. I have made a few different recipes for biscuit cake over the years but this one got the best reception.
Malteser Cheesecake
As it’s nearly the weekend I thought it would be nice to post an indulgent dessert recipe. My go-to cheesecake is usually this Bailey’s Cheesecake. This Malteser Cheesecake isn’t a million miles away, recipe wise.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies. Nothing ground-breaking to see here. But it’s the simple things in life that are really special. The smell of the cookies as you take them out of the oven is amazing.