Tag: dried fruit
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Nostalgic Bakes from Paul Hollywood’s “A Baker’s Life”
The recent spate of snow days has made me want to stay in my warm kitchen and bake comfort food. Never mind me trying to diet. Forget that! When you feel cold and tired, all you want to do is to hibernate with a giant piece of flapjack in each hand! I ended not being…
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Panforte- The Great British Bake Off Christmas.
Friday 22nd December 2017. Panforte is a traditional Italian delicacy which is usually eaten with coffee after a meal. It is full of dried fruit, nuts and spices and baked in the oven on rice paper. A little piece goes a long way as it is very rich. I had tried some Panforte one Christmas…
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Florentines- The Great British Bake Off Christmas.
Friday 22nd December 2017. Yet another new favourite from The Great British Bake Off Christmas book. I love Florentines but have only ever made them once before. They’re another perfect treat to make for foodie gifts at Christmas as well as handy for having around for visitors who don’t like mince pies! I don’t know…
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The Great British Bake Off Christmas- Mary Berry’s Classic Christmas Cake.
Sunday December 3rd, 2017. Since I gave up baking professionally to concentrate on the day job full time, I’ve had less time to spend on baking things like Christmas cakes. Mr Smartcookiesam says to me every year that I should just go and buy a small one from Marks and Spencer but to me part…
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Christmas Leftovers- Mincemeat Loaf Cake.
I know it’s New Year now but I can’t bear throwing things out or wasting things. As I’ve been doing Slimming World up to Christmas and hoping to start back at my local group on 4th January, I can’t really be baking things or eating leftover cake and mince pies. But what to do with…
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Welsh Honey and Camomile Bara Brith- My Own Recipe Featured in The Clandestine Cake Club A Year Of Cake.
Last year myself and the other Clandestine Cake Club members were invited to submit recipes to be included in a brand new cookbook due to be published in September 2015. It was to be called “A Year Of Cake” and members were asked to contribute recipes which celebrated both festivals and famous people’s birthdays from…
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Cut and Come Again Cake from Mary Berry’s Baking Bible.
Last week I had to take a few bakes along to my local WI meeting to serve up at suppertime. We take it in turns in groups of three. Usually we liaise between one another and make or buy a selection of savoury and sweet items to take along to share with all the other…
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Fruity No Bake Granola Flapjack Bars
Last week I felt really tired, exhausted and hormonal. I just wanted to curl up in a ball and sleep for a week yet at night I really struggled with my sleep. It took me ages to drop off, then I was waking up at 3am and 5 am. I couldn’t understand why. When I…
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Nigella Lawson’s How To Be A Domestic Goddess- Christmas Morning Muffins.
Nigella’s Christmas Morning Muffin recipe from her Domestic Goddess Cookbook is just one of those recipes I’ve been keen to try ever since I bought the book nearly 10 years ago. In the introduction Nigella suggests that these muffins are good as part of establishing your very own Christmas morning traditions or rituals. To us…
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