Stormy Sunday Baking: Ginger Biscuits
With Storm Franklin making the idea of going outside not very appealing at all, today I’ve been doing my Sunday baking and have made some ginger biscuits. Continue reading
Baking
Chocolate Heart Biscuits
I was given a Mary Berry recipe book for Christmas and I recently tried one of the recipes from it: Very simple but tasty Chocolate Heart Biscuits. They went very well with hot chocolate, or ice cream, or tea…… Just… Continue reading
Salted Caramel Mini Rolls
For my birthday Corrie & Jody got me a ‘Bake Off Box’ baking kit and between Christmas and New Year I had a go at baking it. Continue reading
This Weekend’s Sunday Baking: Chocolate Sponge Pudding
From October’s BBC Good Food, yesterday I made a chocolate sponge pudding which we all enjoyed after dinner. Continue reading
Cottage Loaf
Normally I make a cob loaf (a simple round loaf of bread). This time I tried to make it a cottage loaf – by dividing my dough in to 2 pieces, one large and one small, then placing the smaller one on top of the larger one. Continue reading
Ginger & Treacle Scones
They didn’t rise as much as I hoped but they tasted good – quite spicy and something a little different to the usual plain scones I make. I just had mine with butter. Quite simple to make and the dough was easy to work with. Continue reading
Happy 100th, Granny
I went up to Crowle today to inspect the grave. This afternoon as part of our birthday tea for Granny, I baked Yorkshire Parkin – first time baking it and the result was very good, so that’s definitely one to try again. Continue reading
Time for A Rebrand…and Baking Cinnamon Buns
What lovely weather we’ve had this weekend! I’ve enjoyed sitting in our new Summer house which is a nice quiet spot to sit and read (and be able to hear the sound of birds and the water flowing in the pond). I might also use it as my ‘writing room’, my book being my background project for the year. Continue reading
Norweigan Skolebrød
Skolebrød – which translates as “School bread” is a sort of sweet dough filled with custard, topped with icing and grated coconut. Continue reading
Cornish Pasties
Happy St Piran’s Day (for Friday). In celebration of Cornwall’s day, I made my own Cornish Pasties from my signed copy of Paul Hollywood’s British baking book. Continue reading