Posts in the "Baking" Category

• amazing technicolour dreamcakes

  Baking
  

  And no, these aren’t Joseph’s but are the very, very clever product of my friend Sam’s warp-speed creativity – she is to home industries what Leonardo was to the renaissance; completely unstoppable. Anyway, she happened to see a picture of a rainbow cake during a work presentation and promptly went home and concocted a recipe [...]

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• country loaf

  Baking
  

  I think I’m coming down with flu, so am not really feeling up to writing a scintillating post tonight – frankly, I don’t think I’ve ever felt less scintillating in my life! So, instead, herewith a simple recipe for a country-style loaf that is about the sort of nourishing, comforting thing I feel the need [...]

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• rooibos cheesecake

  Baking
  

  Some months ago I found a fabulous recipe for a rooibos cheesecake in a House & Leisure magazine and, as I’m want to do, I made it over and over again and then (for some peculiar reason that I can’t remember) I forgot all about it. Until this weekend, when I was once more overcome [...]

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• banana & pecan nut muffins

  Baking

  Yesterday Sam read the sorry saga of my recent, catastrophic muffin failures (see the muffin misadventures) and mercifully decided to take pity on me. Being the kind person that she is, she left a comment saying that she had a brilliant recipe for Banana and Pecan Nut muffins and would I be interested. That’s a bit [...]

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• chocolate cloud cake

  Baking
  

  Chocolate Cloud Cake from Nigella Bites
  To compensate for the horror of the muffin debacle, I’ve decided to post a foolproof (yup, even I can make this) recipe for a cake so delicious it should require an age restriction, or 3 hail marys, or a savage self flagellation session – some sort of atonement. It is, quite [...]

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