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Ultimate Pizza Dough

Posted on August 12, 2011 by The Pink Whisk

or ‘the boys make pizza’

Ingredients:
450g strong white plain flour
½ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp onion salt
2 tsp sugar
2 tbsp sunflower oil
1 ½ tsp dried active yeast

300ml warm water

Makes two medium pizza bases or garlic bread.

Okay so you can make it by hand, I’m not going to, that’s what the mixer/breadmaker is for surely? Plus four boys nipping at my heels to make pizza (yes I know I only have three boys, I decided to borrow my nephew for the afternoon too). I have two secret ingredients in my pizza dough. Okay they’re not secret and they’re not exciting either but they are good!

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Posted in Bread, How To, Kids, Pizza, Savoury, Tomato, Treats | Tagged Bread, Dough, How To, Pizza, Recipe | 12 Comments

Blueberry Crumble Muffins

Posted on July 22, 2011 by The Pink Whisk

This time of year blueberries are sweeeeeeet and juicy, if you can resist eating them straight from the punnet these muffins will go down a treat

Ingredients:

180g self raising flour

55g soft light brown sugar

150ml milk

1 egg, large

25g melted butter

100g blueberries
Crumble Topping

2 tbsps flour (self raising is fine and you’ve already got it out of the cupboard)

10g butter, softened

2 tbsps oats

1 tbsp soft light brown sugar

1 tbsp chopped mixed nuts
If you don’t like nuts or oats just leave these out.
Makes 6 muffins.

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Mum’s Ginger Muffins

Posted on July 14, 2011 by The Pink Whisk

You can always rely on Mums! Mums mind children when you’re flat out, Mums give you a hug when you’re adamant you can’t possibly do one more thing….and Mums make great Ginger Muffins coated in sticky lemon icing! They also write it up for all The Pink Whiskers too!
Here’s my Mum’s recipe for fab Ginger Muffins Thanks Mum xx

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Posted in Cake, Cupcakes, Ginger, Guest Post, Lemon, Muffins, Treats | 28 Comments

One Year at The Pink Whisk

Posted on July 5, 2011 by The Pink Whisk

Friday 8th July 2011 will be the 1st Birthday of The Pink Whisk and goodness what a year it’s been!

105 blog posts, one new Stoves oven, countless new cake tins, 23 pots of glitter ;), 6 new baking paraphernalia cupboards fitted in the garage, a husband who has taken over the washing because he was fed up of waiting for me to do it, children who are now astounded if they come home from school and there’s no treats awaiting them and last but not least 6,000 cups of tea to get me through the

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Blueberry and Hazelnut Chocolate Florentines

Posted on June 22, 2011 by The Pink Whisk

Florentines are notoriously tricky blighters, seemingly simple but accurate measurements are needed (Ruth are you paying attention, no really paying attention? Okay out come the digital scales).
Florentines also need to go on the tray well spaced apart, another instruction in recipes I fail to ‘get’ and f

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Golden Syrup Loaf Cake

Posted on June 14, 2011 by The Pink Whisk

Whilst playing around with egg-free recipes I made this cake, quite by accident. It wasn’t what I was intending it to be but it’s fast become a firm family favourite here, it’s egg-free too!
(If you’re looking for egg-free recipes be sure to try my best ever ginger cake)
You may well be wondering why I’m giving you quantities for two loaf cakes here but trust me, even two isn’t enough. Wrapped well in clingfilm this loaf cake can be frozen – that’s if you can snaffle it there before anyone spots it.

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Are you ready for these…? Smoky Choc Cherry Cupcakes

Posted on June 9, 2011 by The Pink Whisk

I developed these last year as an option for the final of The Great British Bake Off. In the end I went with Mint, Ginger and Blackberry (recipe here) so before the weather gets truly summery here’s my recipe for Smoky Chocolate and Cherry Cake.

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Posted in Cake, Cherry, Chocolate, Cupcakes, The Great British Bake Off, Treats | 29 Comments

In The Pink Whisk Kitchen…My Pride and Joy

Posted on June 8, 2011 by The Pink Whisk

What would my pride and joy be? I bet you’re all thinking its a fancy bit of equipment or in fact a super cool pink stand mixer of the Kitchen Aid variety? Well you’d be wrong, my pride and joy is my oven.

Buying a fancy pants oven was never on my list of priorities, in a house where being strapped for cash is the norm when we were buying our oven the budget was meagre. Baking day in day out from sunrise to sunset for the Bake Off nearly killed my oven, it developed a death rattle and wouldn’t heat up above 180c, we limped along together.

On the set of Bake Off we had superly expensive Neff Ovens, we’re talking over £1,000 each – holey moley! Disappointingly for said brand new mega bucks ovens the doors came off in

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Afternoon Tea – Eclairs – Two ways! Vanilla Choc & Coffee

Posted on May 31, 2011 by The Pink Whisk

Now I’ve done the Choux pastry how to (here) lets see what we can do with them.
Vanilla Chocolate and Coffee Eclairs
Before I give you the low down on the eclairs I thought I’d share a couple of my other tea party essentials.
In my coffee pot are these….

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How to make Choux Pastry

Posted on May 30, 2011 by The Pink Whisk

Choux pastry is a really versatile pastry to have up your sleeve, it gives some people grief so I thought I’d do a quick how to before using it in a recipe.

Traditionally used for profiteroles, choux pastry can also be made into a great variety of lovely things, eclairs and gougere included!

Ingredients:
120ml whole milk
120ml water
115g butter, cubed