Category: #100bakeschallenge

• May 2023 Round Up.

  

  I can’t believe that it’s the last day of May already. Where has this month gone? It has been a crazy month. May is birthday month in our house- first it was my son’s birthday and then mine comes two weeks later! So there has been lots of excuses to celebrate. At the beginning of…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  May 31, 2023

  #100bakeschallenge

  #100bakeschallenge, Attic24, baking, birthday cake, biscuits, brownies, cake, cakes, cherries, chocolate, comfort food, cookies, cream, Crochet, cupcakes, dark chocolate, desserts, icing sugar, lemon curd, lemons, sprinkles, traditional, white chocolate

• Pitta Breads- #100bakeschallenge

  

  Back at Christmas 2021 my friend bought me a really useful gift- a poster from Crumbs By Collette, which features 100 scratch off squares. Each square underneath reveals a picture of a well known traditional bake. As you bake that particular item, you scratch off the square. It doesn’t have a time frame to be…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  May 27, 2023

  #100bakeschallenge

  #100bakeschallenge, baking, bread baking, comfort food, family, family meals, flatbread, kebabs, pitta, pitta bread, salad, yeast baking

• Easter Catch Up And Baking Round Up.

  

  Hi everyone! I hope you’ve all had a very Happy Easter. It feels like ages since I’ve done a blog post. At the beginning of this year I planned on writing three posts a week. Two baking themed ones and one crochet/ craft one. March was very busy chez SmartCookieSam and we were away for…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  April 11, 2023

  #100bakeschallenge, Easter, No Bakes, Seasonal, Seasonal and Celebration Cakes, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  afternoon tea, baking, brownies, cake, cakes, celebrations, chocolate, chocolate chips, chocolate eggs, classic cakes, cookies, dark chocolate, dessert, Easter, Empire biscuits, family, flapjacks, icing sugar, loaf cakes, mini eggs, porridge oats, traditional, traybake, traybakes

• Nigella Lawson’s Chocolate Macarons: #100bakeschallengeposter No 77.

  

  EDIT: this was meant to be posted on 14th February! So wind yourself back four weeks! I get more chance to bake and test out new recipes as well as trying out more complicated ones when I have more spare time. It was half term week and I had time to try out some recipes.…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 14, 2023

  #100bakeschallenge, Chocolate Treats

  baking, chocolate, dark chocolate, French macarons, ground almonds, How To Be A Domestic Goddess, macarons, Nigella Lawson, patisserie, traditional

• Chelsea Buns- #100bakeschallenge Paul Hollywood’s Recipe.

  

  A Chelsea Bun is a rich yeasted bun flavoured with citrus zest, dried fruit and cinnamon, dusted with sugar and then glazed with a sticky topping, such as warm apricot jam. They originate from the early 18th century where they were baked at the Chelsea Bun House, an establishment popular with the Hanoverian Royal Family…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 7, 2023

  #100bakeschallenge, buns

  bakeries, baking, British Baking, buns, Chelsea Buns, dried fruit, Paul Holloywood recipe, Paul Hollywood, traditional, yeast, yeast baking

• Friday Finish- Attic24 Springfrost Blanket CAL.

  This is the third year running I have joined in the Attic24 CAL (CrochetALong). As soon as I saw the Springfrost Blanket introduction on Attic24’s website late last year, I just knew I had to try it. The colours in the Springfrost palette are wintry on the whole, with the delicate colours that start appearing…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 3, 2023

  #100bakeschallenge

• Paul Hollywood’s Iced Lemon Whitby Buns #100bakeschallenge no 78.

  

  I don’t know about you, but as soon as I see a recipe has yeast in it, I have this feeling of absolute dread! I’ve never got the results I want from making something involving yeast. Or I can’t handle the dough properly as my hands are always far too hot and sticky- I blame…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  February 17, 2023

  #100bakeschallenge, Breads and Yeast Bakes, breakfast, buns

  Bothams of Whitby, buns, comfort food, dried fruit, family, lemon buns, lemons, Paul Hollywood, Paul Hollywood British Baking, recipe, traditional, Whitby, Whitby lemon buns, yeast, yeasted buns, Yorkshire

• Black Forest Bundt #100bakeschallenge No 76 & Bundt Book Challenge #3.

  It was Mr S’ birthday last weekend. He doesn’t normally like celebrating his birthday or making a fuss but his family think differently! He also told me not to make him a birthday cake. But when I don’t bake anything he asks if I’ve baked anything. I can’t win! I don’t listen to him- we…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 31, 2023

  #100bakeschallenge

• Bundt Challenge #1: Snickerdoodle Bundt

  

  My new challenge for 2023 is to bake as many recipes from Bundt by Melanie Johnson. You can read all about this in an introductory post here: Bundt- The New Challenge For 2023. I wasn’t sure which recipe I’d like to make first so I put it to the vote. It was a choice between Snickerdoodle,…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 22, 2023

  #100bakeschallenge, Bundts, Classic and Traditional Cakes, Large and Celebration Cakes

  afternoon tea, autumn, baking, bundts, cakes, cinnamon, family, Nordicware, traditional

• Cornish Pasties- A Great British Bake Off Recipe.

  

  I’m still working my way through my #100bakesposterchallenge and am really enjoying it. There are bakes I’ve made before a few times over and some I haven’t tried at all. Usually the ones I haven’t tried are down to whether they look complicated or are much easier to buy ready made. I must admit I…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 22, 2023

  #100bakeschallenge, Pastry, Savoury Baking

  #100bakeschallenge, baking, British recipe, Cornish, Cornish Pasties, family, mealtimes, Pastry, regional recipes, savoury baking, shortcrust pastry, The Great British Bake Off, traditional