The last few weeks have made me feel as if I need to be a bit abstemious in my baking. I’m not saying that it’s made me feel I need to bake any less, quite the opposite in fact, but what it has done is made me feel I need to be careful with what …
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Banana bread
I’m sure that at the moment we all have stories we can tell about people who are doing something to help in these difficult times. Whether it’s looking out for neighbours who need extra support, putting themselves in front of the public everyday as they keep a food store open or just in general working …
Cardamom tea cakes with cinnamon sugar topping.
I was going to start this post with a reference to how long we’ve been in lockdown, but as I keep losing track of time and never seem to know what day of the week it is I’d probably get it wrong if I tried. So I’ll just make do with saying that I hope …
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Chilli cornbread pie
I’ve mentioned in a couple of my recent posts that flexible recipes are what we need at the moment. Recipes which can be tweaked and amended to take into account what you have, or more importantly don’t have, in your store cupboard. With the one I’m sharing today I think I’ve found a near perfect …
Blood orange syrup cake with candied peel.
Up until two weeks ago my recipe of choice at this time of year had always been the blood orange and pistachio cakes that I shared in my Baking Advent Calendar day 10 post. Then I discovered Tamal Ray’s blood orange syrup cake with candied peel and suddenly there’s a new favourite in this house. …
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It’s all about the bread
It’s all about the bread this week and that’s as it should be as #RealBreadWeek is all over my Twitter timeline. It’s as if the algorithms have been in my kitchen and smelled the baking. There’s already been a couple of loaves this week and there will probably be another before next weekend. I wouldn’t …
Baking Advent Calendar day 23
When I started this Advent Calendar I hadn’t given much thought as to how it would pan out. There were some initial ideas about making all of the posts Christmas themed but I soon realised that I was setting myself up to fail if I went down that route. I like to think that the …
Baking Advent Calendar day 20
A few days ago I noticed on Twitter that #nationalcookieday was trending, so I posted a picture of some chocolate and pistachios cookies that I’d baked. As they got lots of positive feedback I thought that I’d share them here for Baking Advent Calendar day 20. I often bake these as they keep for up …
Baking Advent Calendar day 19
We’re into the homeward straight now as my Baking Advent Calendar reaches day 19. Today I’m sharing something a little different as we’re having baked berry doughnuts. I suppose that technically I should be calling these doughnut cakes, but as there’s no deep fat fryer in my kitchen they’re just doughnuts to me. Doughnuts always …
Baking Advent Calendar day 18
Some days are made for exotic bakes and some are made for comfort baking. Todays baking plan was bread and and I decided that it felt like a comfort day, a day for some good old fashioned white crusty bread. Normally when I bake bread it’s with wholemeal or spelt flours and there’s often some …