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How to make a Cupcake Bouquet
The perfect gift for Mothers Day – making a cupcake bouquet is really easy….let
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!
Perfect Pancake – How To….
It’s very nearly Shrove Tuesday and with it comes the necessity to make pancakes! It’s always good to have a fool proof batter recipe and instructions and here it is…
Ingredients:
200g plain flour
pinch of salt
2 eggs, large
600ml milk
The batter will make approx 12 x 20cm pancakes depending on the thickness you prefer them.
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.
Baileys & Choc Chip Scones
This lovely idea came from a chance discussion on Facebook and is courtesy of my gorgeous friend Kate. They work brilliantly and if you’re a Baileys lover then these are for you! – Thanks Kate xx
Ingredients:
225g self raising flour
Pinch of salt
50g butter
25g caster sugar
120ml Baileys or other cream liquer
75g milk chocolate chips
2 tbsps milk to glaze
To serve:
Whipped Cream
Chocolate Spread
Preheat the oven to 220c/200c Fan/425F/Gas Mark 7.
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
Chocolate Orange Macaroons
Another fab flavour Mac for you – Chocolate Orange they’re not Terry’s they’re mine!
You will need:
1 batch of Macaroons dyed bright orange (recipe here)
Dust them lightly with cocoa powder as soon as they have been piped.
Orange Ganache
100g milk chocolate
100ml double cream
1 tsp orange extract
Make up the ganache by placing the cream in a pan.
Raspberry & White Chocolate Macaroons
As promised here’s an ultimately delicious Macaroon – Raspberry and White Chocolate.
You will need:
1 batch of Macaroons coloured a deep raspberry pink (recipe here)
White Chocolate Buttercream
75g butter, softened
150g icing sugar
50g good quality white chocolate
1 tbsp double cream
Raspberry Filling
300g raspberries (fresh or frozen)
100g caster sugar
2 tbsp water
1tbsp cornflour
Make up the white chocolate buttercream.
How to Make Perfect Macaroons… (Macarons)
Macaroons – The French type, (said with a French accent of course) are notoriously tricky little blighters and reduce lots of us to tears.
You might have seen me make them on The Great British Bake Off for the Petit Four Tower.
