Tag: sugar
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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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Icelandic Marriage Cake.
Whenever I go on holiday I like to find out if there are any traditional local cakes either to try or to recreate at home. Last month we went to Iceland for four days as a stopover on our way to Canada. I didn’t eat any cake or sample any Icelandic baking but was curious […]
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Syrniki from the Great British Bake Off Celebrations.
I’m a bit at sixes and sevens with my blog posting recently. I started writing this post last week but the WordPress app kept crashing on my ipad. I had nearly finished it too and the whole thing was lost. I was fuming and ended up giving it up on the night. Now I’m trying […]
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Rum Babas from The Great British Bake Off -Showstopper Bakes.
Last year when the Great British Bake Off was on I was tempted by the Rum Babas that the contestants were asked to make for their Technical Challenge in the very first week. Who can remember John Whaite accidentally putting salt in the rum babas instead of sugar because the glass jars weren’t labelled? Luckily […]
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Mary’s Angel Food Cake With Lemon Curd- The Great British Bake Off Week 1(Series 4)
Last week the latest series of The Great British Bake Off got off to a cracking start! In Cake week the contestants had to make a sandwich cake as well as a showstopper chocolate cake. But what of the Technical Challenge, the bake that has everyone worried and panicking that it will pass muster from […]
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