Having fun baking and decorating cakes
As promised here is the Lemon tart recipe from Leiths latest book Leiths How to Cook (Quadrille, £30). Photograph: Peter Cassidy. (see the whole book review here) oks sooooo good! Lemon tart Serves 6 1 quantity pâte sucrée (below) Extra flour, to dust For the filling 3 lemons 6 eggs, plus 1 extra yolk 150–170g caster …
Last month I was asked by Achica to come up with a strawberries and cream recipe for Wimbledon fortnight. I have to say that there are few combinations that go together as well as strawberries and cream, except when you add some sugary meringues to it! Oh my mouth is watering just thinking about it! …
Mini Banoffee Pies This recipe is taken from Mary Berry and Lucy Young’s latest book At Home, BBC Books Thank you BBC Books for sharing it with us. Buy it here on Amazon “Everyone’s favourite dessert – these individual pies are Lucy’s recipe and are divine. Tins of ready-made caramel can be bought in any supermarket and …
Sometimes you have days when things go wrong. Sometimes those days turn into weeks! I have just had one of those weeks. Nothing I have baked this week seems to have worked! On Saturday night we had friends round for dinner. In my head I had everything perfectly planned. As always I was on dessert …
My brother is leaving me today :0( He’s emigrating to Australia with his wife and two daughters and we are all going to miss them tons and tons and tons. Whilst finishing off a little surprise photo album I was making them last night as a Bon Voyage gift, I came across the photos from …
This is a cake I made to take around to my mother-in-law’s for her birthday back in June. We were all invited for a family afternoon tea at her house. She always makes the most amazing Cherry Amours (I must get the recipe from her some time!) and she had also made scones too, so …
