With strawberry season in full swing, this is the perfect recipe to make use of fresh strawberries (or raspberries). I actually grew these strawberries myself! Ingredients for the sponge 225g unsalted butter, at room temperature 225g caster sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 4 large eggs 225g self raising flour 1 tsp baking powder splash of
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A perfect bake for Easter time, this cake will keep the kids happy during lockdown too! A three tier chocolate sponge, decorated with vanilla buttercream in different pastel shades and topped with Cadbury’s Mini Eggs. Recipe adapted from www.janespatisserie.com Ingredients for the sponge 400g Stork margarine 400g light brown sugar 340g self raising flour 60g
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A few weeks back I made Malteser Bunny Cupcakes and they were delicious! So I decided to scale the recipe up to create a three tier Malteser cake for my birthday! I have used one of my favourite blogs (janespatisserie.com) as inspiration for this. I have used Jane’s malted chocolate sponge recipe with my own
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What better way to beat the January blues than with cake? Hummingbird cake is sure to add a bit of sunshine to the recent cold, dark days! It’s similar to carrot cake but contains banana, pineapple and pecans rather than carrots. It’s a beautifully moist cake covered in cream cheese frosting. This recipe is taken
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Today is my Mother’s 70th birthday! Happy Birthday Mam! To mark this milestone she requested a chocolate explosion cake, and I was happy to oblige! So here’s the recipe….. It’s fairly straightforward to make. My cake decorating skills are far from brilliant but I was pleased with the finished article! If I can do it,
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I’m really enjoying The Great British Bake Off this year. The ‘Spice’ episode from a couple of weeks ago was right up my street and left me desperate to make a Gingerbread cake! I turned to one of my favourite bloggers (Jane’s Patisserie) for inspiration! Here I’ve followed Jane’s recipe (Christmas Gingerbread Cake) for the
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May is a very busy month in the Rees household! Both William and Morgan have their Birthday on May the 19th! (which also happened to be the date of a certain Royal Wedding!) This year they turned 9 and 3. So when there’s a Birthday, there’s a cake! Or in fact there were lots of
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So last weekend I made a Chocolate Peanut Butter Drip Cake! I love all things Peanut Butter! I posted a photo on Facebook and have been inundated with requests for the recipe! It is actually a recipe by John Whaite, who won the third series of the Great British Bake Off in 2012 and can
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