Cake
Wedding Baking – Fruit Wedding Cake
Here’s the recipe for my perfect wedding cake.
Wedding Baking – White Chocolate and Raspberry Cakes
Little White Chocolate and Raspberry Cakes – another perfect little wedding treat – bag them up and tie with ribbon or place them in teeny tiny presentation boxes as cute little favours a little bit different!
These are baked in a silicone flower mould by Pampered Chef Silicone Flower Mould –
The Great British Wedding Cake BBC2
Just a quick post to let you all know that I will be appearing in the one off special
The Great British Wedding Cake – Wednesday 20th April 8pm BBC2
alongside Edd Kimber and Miranda Gore-Browne, just like old bake off times!
How to make a Cupcake Bouquet
The perfect gift for Mothers Day – making a cupcake bouquet is really easy….let me show you how.
You will need:
Cardboard
6 x 12″ cake dowels – Squires Kitchen Dowels – Squires Kitchen
Scissors
Hot glue gun
Greenery for the bouquet
Wire, string or ribbon
Brown paper
5 or 6 x Cupcakes decorated with your choice of design Recipe here
How To:
Start by preparing your cupcake supports.
Chocolate Muffins (and the perfect chocolate cake recipe)
So here is my recipe for huge chocolate muffins with a surprise chocolate sauce filling – you know the kind you can buy in coffee shops and bakery chains up and down the country. They are twice the size of your average cupcake but take some beating!
Choc Cherry Cake Pops & Kenco Millicano
I was lucky enough recently to be invited along to the launch of a fab new instant coffee – Kenco Millicano – Kenco’s first ever Wholebean Instant coffee! It’s the closest thing to ‘proper’ coffee you’ll get in an instant. Available in supermarkets from the 1st March 2011.
Victoria Sponge Cake with Cardamom, Rose Cream & Rhubarb
I have met a thoroughly lovely lady through Twitter – Vanessa Kimbell. One heck of an inspirational lady she gave up work in May 2010 with a plan – to write a cookery book in one year and so Prepped! was born.
Free-From Clementine Polenta Cake
Not here but over there! A taste of sunshine from me to you on the Hello Magazine Free From Kitchen.
Ruth Clemens, Baker Extraordinaire
Finalist on BBC2 The Great British Bake Off
On the tenth day of Christmas The Pink Whisk sent to me…… Gingerbread Cupcakes
Gingerbread Men Cupcakes
Makes 18 cupcakes
Ingredients:
Cakes
115g butter, softened
55g dark brown sugar
50g caster sugar
1 large egg
150ml treacle
310g plain flour
1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 1/4tsp ground ginger
230ml greek yoghurt
Gingerbread men (optional) to decorate
Frosting
500g icing sugar, sifted
1 tbsp meringue powder/meri-white/egg white powder
or
1 x box of Silver Spoon Royal Icing Sugar
90ml lemon juice
Preheat the oven to 160c fan/180c/Gas Mark 4.
On the sixth day of Christmas The Pink Whisk sent to me…. Chocolate Coconut Snowballs
Chocolate and coconut were made to go together, add in some marshmallow and it’s heaven in a snowball!
Ingredients:-
Cakes
200ml milk
2 tsp malt vinegar
75g dessicated coconut
140g butter, softened
200g caster sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
55g self raising flour
165g plain flour
3/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
60g cocoa powder
Marshmallow
225g caster sugar
85ml water
1 x 7g sachet of gelatine
50ml water
Topping
20g dessicated coconut
50g plain chocolate to drizzle
Preheat the oven to 160c Fan/180c/ Gas Mark 4.
