Tag: desserts
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Finch Bakery- Book Review
Back in the summer holidays (seems so long ago now!) I was shopping in my local Waterstones. I love going into bookshops and could spend hours looking through all the shelves. Especially at the cookery ones. I’ve not seen so many new baking books I’ve wanted to buy recently but the Finch Bakery one caught…
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Tarte Tatin with Creme Anglaise
Last Thursday was the first session in the next part of my Patisserie and Confectionery Course at York College. It was a change of night and we had a new tutor. For my first session I ended up arriving five minutes late as there had been a massive traffic jam driving to York. I had…
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Baking With Reeses Peanut Butter Chips.
Here’s yet another blog post I’ve forgotten to write about over the past few weeks. I had only been in my new job a couple of weeks and baking was the last thing on my mind. Though I do like to bake a cake or a pudding on a Sunday to go with our lunch.…
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Salted Caramel and Pretzel Brownies
I love baking brownies. They are so easy to make yet are so naughty but nice at the same time. I used to make loads of them when I had cake stalls as they were always popular with customers. One man was so taken by my brownies that he came back and bought some more…
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Mary Berry’s Classic Swiss Roll
It was Sunday lunchtime and that means a cake or a dessert in our house to follow the roast. Once again I turned to my trusty Mary Berry’s Baking Bible to bake another recipe from my Cooking The Books Challenge. Mary’s Swiss Roll is one of the recipes featured in her Classic Recipes chapter, along…
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Eton Mess
Now there’s two days until the end of the month and I have two recipes left to try out from Jo Wheatley’s A Passion For Baking as part of my Cooking The Books challenge for March 2014. Today, being Mothers’ Day I wanted to make a scrummy dessert for our lunch. I wanted something everyone…
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Sticky Toffee Cake.
About three weeks ago we had a special family Sunday meal at our house for my Dad and step-mum. After some gammon which was the smallest joint ever and had to be padded out with pigs in blankets and lots of veg, I had to think of a pudding that everyone would like. When it’s…
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