Treats
Mint Ginger and Blackberry Miniature Cakes
Here are the miniature cakes that I made for The Great British Bake Off Final – despite Mary not liking them I do and I’m sure you will too!
Sugar Crusted Fruit Scones
Scones – My Way!
So many of you have requested my recipes from The Great British Bake Off – so here’s the first – Sugar Crusted Fruit Scones, more recipes to follow but you’ll have to be patient!
Jammy Damson Brulee
At this time of year you just can’t beat nature and all the lovely fruit it gives us for free! I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on a huge amount of Damsons. After our jam stocks have surged enough see us through the next five years I thought I’d better find something else to use them for.
Chocolate Orange Panettone
Panettone isn’t difficult to make but it does take a while – not actual work mind just a lot of waiting about! I find it’s best to do it at the weekend when you’ve nothing planned but pottering around the house.
Caramel Cake
Caramel Cake with Crushed Daim Bars
Ingredients:
Cake
300g butter
180g dark muscovado sugar
1/2 397g tin Carnation Caramel (Dulche de Leche)
6 eggs
320g self raising flour
Filling
125g butter
250g Icing Sugar
1 spoonful of Caramel (from the tin)
Icing
250g Icing Sugar
1 spoonful of Caramel (from the tin)
10ml water
2 Daim Bars
I thought I would use this cake to test out my new tin.
Toffee Pecan Ring – August Bake It! Club
This recipe comes from Amy Lane’s August Bake It! Club. Since filming for The Great British Bake Off finished I have really missed baking with a whole bunch of great people. This is the next best thing – Amy Lane’s Bake It!
Ruth’s Chocolate Truffles – as seen on The Great British Bake Off
I love making truffles and love giving them to everyone too, they’re a great crowd pleaser and they disappear as fast as lightening!
After a lot of trial and error I think I can give you the lowdown on the easiest way to make truffles
Ingredients:
300g plain or milk chocolate
200ml double cream
2 tbsp liqueur
To decorate:
200g plain or milk chocolate
plus white chocolate for drizzling, edible glitter or edible stars (these are optional but give the truffles a bit of pizzazz!)
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Bars
In my last post I promised you a treat and here it is, Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars – delicious straight from the fridge -I dare you to only eat one!
Ingredients:
Cookie Dough
180g dark brown sugar
125g butter
1 egg
200g plain flour
20g malted drink powder (Ovaltine)
50g cocoa powder
3/4tsp salt
2/4tsp bicarbonate of soda
Peanut Butter Filling
250g icing sugar
4 tbsp peanut butter (crunchy or smooth whichever you prefer)
25g butter
100g marshmallows
200g milk chocolate
Preheat the oven to 180c/160c Fan/350F/Gas Mark 4
Begin by making the cookie dough base.
Black Forest Berry Brownies
Here’s something super special and super easy to bakeBlack Forest Berry Brownies
Ingredients:
200g Dark Chocolate (Bournville works really well and won’t break the bank either)
140g Butter
225g Sugar
2tsp Vanilla Extract
2 Eggs
1 Egg Yolk
85g Plain Flour
200g Frozen Black Forest Fruit Berries (Sainsburys)
You will need a baking tray with deep sides approx.
Betty’s Vanilla Custard Slices
Who’s Betty I can hear you ask! She’s my lovely Nanna who taught me to make these when I was about 12. It’s what every twelve year old should be learning. Shop bought vanilla slices come nowhere near comparing.
These use homemade rough puff pastry and up until earlier this year I always used shop bought ready made stuff thinking that making my own would be some kind of ordeal.
