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
Baking
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
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
Baguettes
My recipe made 4 small baguettes which worked well. The dough for baguettes is wetter and sticker than when I am making normal loaves of bread, hence the mixer (imagine the mess I’d make in the kitchen doing it by hand!) Continue reading
Bacon & Cheddar Loaves
I got up early this morning to do some baking – Listening to my radio show in the kitchen, I made 4 Bacon & Cheddar Loaves. Continue reading
Tantallon Cakes
I baked Tantallon Cakes, which are not actually cakes but are in fact buttery shortbread biscuits. Continue reading
Porridge Bread
Porridge bread – not a type of bread I’ve eaten before – but the result wasn’t bad. The recipe doesn’t use any butter – just oats, water, flour, sugar, salt and yeast. Continue reading