It’s already bake off week three and this time it’s bread. When I first started to bake the thought of making bread was daunting and not something that I tried for quite some time. Eventually I plucked up the courage to have a go and now it’s probably second only to cake in the things …
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Great British Bake Off Week Two
Bake off week two and it’s time for biscuits. Biscuits are never my favourite bake, not to say that I don’t enjoy them, just that they are something that I don’t bake very often. This weeks challenges were chocolate biscuits bars for the signature bake, fig rolls for the technical and a 3D biscuit structure …
Great British Bake Off Week One
It’s reached that time of year again. That time when despite the first signs of summer coming to an end, things don’t actually feel so bad after all. I’m probably being fanciful but The Great British Bake Off has that affect on me. Yes I know it’s all a bit of a cliche but there …
For the love of cookbooks
Someone asked me last week why I prefer cookbooks to looking online for recipes. The question got me thinking as it’s not something that I’ve really thought about before. The quick and obvious answer is that nothing beats the look and feel of a book. The opening of a new cover, the turning of the …
Homemade versus shop bought
Just because I’m a relatively recent convert to the joys of baking it doesn’t mean that I haven’t always enjoyed cake and baked things in general. Back then they were either shop bought or baked by someone else in the house. My Mum loved to bake and I have many childhood memories of being in …
Sunday afternoon baking
Sunday afternoon in the kitchen just might be my favourite time of the week. A time when I can completely immerse myself in baking. That’s not to say that I don’t bake at other times of the week, just that Sunday is the time when I really indulge. I’m in my own little world and …
Baking Bread
So you’ve reached the point when the bread goes into the oven.. You’ve mixed, you’ve kneaded , you’ve proved and now there’s nothing more that you can do. The tray has gone in, the timers set and it’s fingers crossed. Making bread always feels like a strange mix of baking at both it’s easiest and …
David in the kitchen. 