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Some recent baking! Click on any of the images to see them on Instagram.

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French Martini Meringue Roulade: Ok so I must conf

French Martini Meringue Roulade: Ok so I must confess I’ve never tried a French Martini until recently and I’ve discovered it might just be my fave cocktail. Introduced to me by my son, who has been working in a bar over the summer, he even taught a cocktail master class. Meringue Roulade is one of his favourite deserts, so I thought I’d combine the two. I soaked crushed pineapple and raspberries in pineapple and raspberry liquor for a few hours. Then strained, I put the fruit into the roulade and reduced the liquid down with some pineapple juice and crushed raspberries into a syrup to put over the top 😋 result well let’s just say a lot got eaten 😀. Have a good Bank hols guys #meringue #meringueroulade #raspberries #pineapples #baking #homebaker #cooking #homecooked #frenchmartini #cocktail

Pistachio Crinkle Cookies: This recipe was from @b

Pistachio Crinkle Cookies: This recipe was from @bakingwiththegoodhair . I wanted to try some other biscuit recipes. They were good though I think I went rogue with the green food colour, maybe a bit fluorescent 🤔. Had a lovely weekend catching up with family, friends and saw Grease on the big screen in the market square in Cambridge. An apt tribute to Olivier Newton John and a movie I’ve grown up with and watched so many times. Quiet audience but we were there at the back singing along and dancing and we met some lovely and interesting people who had just finished drama school. 🤗#cookies #baking #homebaking #biscuit #pistachiocookies #baking-therapy

Fougasse: Time for a bread post and this time Foug

Fougasse: Time for a bread post and this time Fougasse flavoured with rosemary. This recipe is from @paulhollywoodbakes and can be found @bbcgoodfood website. Going to try the sourdough recipe next time. Im on my 3rd sourdough starter now since original lockdown and I’ve just fed it this morning and this time I’ve called it Ernie . The first was Eric, second Erica and somehow Ernie seems appropriate. Will let you know how it goes 🤞. Take care every one 🤗 #bakingtherapy #bread #PaulHollywood #baking #breadbaking #rosemary #homecooking #homebaker #fougasse

Chocolate/ Caramel Birthday Cake: Made on request

Chocolate/ Caramel Birthday Cake: Made on request for a birthday. Chocolate fudge cake, caramel buttercream & whipped chocolate ganache. Working with chocolate and piping buttercream when it’s 35c outside and a sauna inside was let’s just say interesting. 😬Experimented with the use of stencils this time. I did try and attach the templates with pins, then the image of potential people visiting A&E with pierced mouths from stray pins put a stop to that 😯Definitely using stencils again for a quick decorating technique. Looking forward to some cooler weather now and more baking 😍 #birthdaycake #stencil #cakedecorating #baking #homebaker #cake #chocolatecake #chocolate #buttercreamcakes #chocolateganachefrosting #birthday

Snickerdoodle Cookies: Ok so I’d never heard of

Snickerdoodle Cookies: Ok so I’d never heard of these before until I saw them @marthacollison where I got the recipe from. Apparently these are popular in the US and are super quick and easy to make. They are basically biscuit dough rolled in cinnamon sugar. As they are egg free they can be made vegan easily too. I’m informed the name snickerdoodle comes from the German word Schneckennudel- sweet bun. Anyway they were yummy 😋 have a fab weekend and enjoy the sunny weather. I’ll be spending it making a birthday cake for my next post 🤗 #snickerdoodle #marthacollison #cookies #biscuit #baking #easybaking #cinnamon #homebaking

Raspberry Marble Cake: Sometimes you just want som

Raspberry Marble Cake: Sometimes you just want something simple. The marbling is achieved by making 2 cake batters, one vanilla the other raspberry and basically swirling them in the tin. Very simple yet quite effective. Finally have a new oven installed so can get to baking properly once again. 🥳 The old one here was a no go where sponges were concerned, lots of very dodgy half raw or burnt sponge disasters. So after the hot spell bring it on 🤣. #baking #bakinglove #homebakers #cake #marblecake #raspberry

Beetroot &Goats Cheese Tart: Made this morning and

Beetroot &Goats Cheese Tart: Made this morning and taken to Maggies’s Centre for lunch today to share. Basically a puff pastry case, pre baked and then some creme fraiche spread on top with goats cheese. Then topped with red onions fried til caramelised with port and thyme and topped with a little baked beetroot in honey. Reports were it tasted good, my smell & taste have been distorted since covid so I can’t rely on myself at mo, but it’s coming back 🥳. I could certainly smell the portaloos at the Cambridge Folk Festival where I’ve been this weekend so it’s definitely improving mind you it could have waited til after 😬🤣Had fun catching up with lots of friends and even got to see the England women’s football team receive their trophy on the big screen. Results came in during Billy Bragg’s set, he and everyone else were very emotional ! Hope you all had a fab weekend 😍 #baking #homebaking #homebaker #beetroot #goatscheese #tart #pastry #homecooking #homecooked #cambridgefolkfestival2022 #billybragg #womensfootball

Amaretti Biscuits: These were made last week. I te

Amaretti Biscuits: These were made last week. I tested positive for covid today, I’ve managed to avoid getting it until now and have been feeling pretty flu like so no baking for a little bit. Mind you with a heat wave on its way not sure I’ll want the oven on 🤣. These biscuits are super easy, a certain shop in Cambridge sells these for £3 each, but you can make them for far less, so here’s a recipe:
Ingredients:
175gm caster sugar
170gm ground almonds
1tsp almond essence
2 egg whites
Recipe:
Beat the egg whites until light and fluffy, then gently fold in the other ingredients. Put a heaped tsp of mix onto a lined baking tray, leaving space between each biscuit and bake at 15-20mins on a fan oven at 160c until golden.
Keep cool everyone and stay safe 😍#amaretti #amarettibiscuits #biscuit #baking #bakinglove #homebaking #homebakers #almond #recipe

Birthday Cake: So as I write this there’s no wat

Birthday Cake: So as I write this there’s no water in my flat, major burst pipe apparently. So I’m literally washing my hands in tonic water and drinking the gin😬. As for the oven in this rented flat .. hopeless. Made 8 sponge cakes for this birthday cake all of them fried on the outside and raw in the middle. So I’ll be getting an oven thermometer ASAP ! In desperation with only 4 hours til the party I had to go elsewhere and literally baked this decorated etc in less than 2 hours 🥳🥳. Not what I’d intended but hey some last minute added flowers jazzed it up. Party was fab all age groups, fire pit, dancing etc til 2am and no cake left in sight ….. . Have a great week everyone 😍#cake #birthday #birthdaycake #celebration #homebaking #homebaker #chocolatecake #homemadecake

Apple & Plum Kuchen: Influenced from Germany, basi

Apple & Plum Kuchen: Influenced from Germany, basically a cake topped with fruit, which can be eaten on own or served with cream or custard. This one is going along with 2 other cakes to the toddler group tomorrow where I’m helping out. Hope you all enjoyed the 34c heat on Friday, I had the ingenious idea of baking batches of sourdough bread in a seriously hot oven 🥵not my finest moment, but at least the temperature dropped on Saturday when I was helping on burger cooking duty in the kitchen at the local fete.
Here’s the recipe should you want to have a go at the cake:
Ingredients:
100gm light brown sugar.
130gm butter
85gm syrup
3 eggs
200gm Plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
2tsp ground ginger
1/tsp ground cloves
6 plums 2 apples
Zest of a lemon or Orange
Method: Mix the butter and sugar until light and fluffy in a food mixer then add the other ingredients except the fruit. Spread the mix into a lined 23cm spring tin . Then slice the fruit and place on top, the plums skin side down and apples skin side up. Bake on 160c fan for 55 mins.
Have a fab week everyone, I’m just back from Ronnie Scott’s in London, a first for me and hopefully not the last, always wanted to go but somehow never managed til now 🤗🤗#cake #plumapplekuchen #kuchen #homebaking #homebaker #apple #plum #homecooking #homecooked #fruitcake

Bee cake: Made on request for a friend’s birthda

Bee cake: Made on request for a friend’s birthday. Simple design with lemon sponge fondant and rice paper wings. It was baked in a hemisphere tin. Request was for a cute bee cake, seemed to fit the bill . Posting this sitting in the Botanical gardens bathed in sunshine and surrounded oddly by bees 😃. Have a fab weekend everyone 🤗#beecake #bee #baking #homebaking #themecake #fondanticingdecoration #birthday #birthdaycake

Jubilee Trifle: Made for the celebrations and to b

Jubilee Trifle: Made for the celebrations and to be shared on Sunday. In fact I made two of these, involved 2 litres of cream for the custard and industrial quantities of jelly etc etc I found the recipe for this @bbcgoodfood it won the Jubilee Platinum Pudding contest. It consists of all home made of course 😀lemon Swiss roll, orange jelly,lemon flavoured custard, amaretti biscuits, mandarin coulis and jewelled chocolate bark. Happy celebrations everyone whatever you’re doing 🤗😍#platinumjubilee #trifle #homebaker #baking #bakingtherapy❤️ #platinumjubilee #celebration #bbcgoodfood

Ok so I realise I haven’t posted in a while, a l

Ok so I realise I haven’t posted in a while, a lot has been going on. The biggest being another bereavement and the loss of another extremely close and beautiful young soul , which has hit us all hard. This is something I made a while back with some gingerbread dough. It was an experiment really, I used the dough to make a small art frame and after baking used royal icing and gold lustre dust to give it that slightly vintage feel. I then used edible pens on rice paper as a mini canvas. Having a think now for next bake and post. Take care everyone look after yourselves and have a good weekend 🤗😍#cookingathome #baking #bakingtherapy #gingerbread #biscuitart #biscuit #ricepaper #homebaker

Sourdough Baguettes: Apparently it’s National So

Sourdough Baguettes: Apparently it’s National Sourdough Bread Day, so how Could I resist? This is a recipe I’ve used a few times from @breadaheadbakery and the advantage is that it can be made and eaten on the same day. It uses just a pinch of fresh yeast but oh my absolutely love this recipe never fails. Have a fab weekend guys 😍 #nationalsourdoughbreadday #sourdough #bread #sourdoughbread #baking #homebaker #homecooking #homecooked #baguette #sourdoughbaguette #bskingtherapy

Homemade Fudge: So I realised I hadn’t posted in

Homemade Fudge: So I realised I hadn’t posted in a while . Sadly a lovely friend in his second year at Uni passed away. He was a beautiful, kind and happy soul and it hit me very hard. Sort of lost my baking enthusiasm and enthusiasm for much else afterwards. He liked baking and I know he’d be looking down encouraging me as ever so Daniel this is for you God Bless. The recipe for this one comes from the tin of condensed milk and I’d say it works fine.and is actually a perfect student recipe 🤗#homebaker #fudge #sweets #homemadesweets #homecooking #bakinglove #baking #cookingathome

Japanese Fluffy Pancakes: Happy pancake day everyo

Japanese Fluffy Pancakes: Happy pancake day everyone 🥞😃Tried making something different this year and this recipe is from @bbcgoodfood . Super fluffy and yummy though you need a cooks ring to cook in the pan and only being able to find one this morning let’s just say the production line was very very slow. Have fun and happy pancake making everyone 🥰 #pancakeday #pancakes #baking #cookingathome #homecooking

Birthday Cake: It was our lovely friend Nigel’s

Birthday Cake: It was our lovely friend Nigel’s 60th birthday this weekend and we had the pleasure to join in the celebration @the.reform.club in London. Had to make a chocolate and marzipan cake given they’re his favourite flavours. Have a good week everyone whatever you’re doing 😍#cake #birthdaycake #baking #homebaker #homebaking #chocolatecake #chocolate #marzipan #birthday #celebration #instagramcake

New York: Just back from a week in the States visi

New York: Just back from a week in the States visiting our son. Stop over in New York just had to involve a food tour of course. One of the stops was to the famous @mollies_cupcakes and oh my word were they divine. A definite must apparently they were on TV way back in a competition and won, the guide informed us and I’m not surprised. #cupcakes #newyork #cake #mollyscupcakes

Valentines Biscuits: Couldn’t resist making them

Valentines Biscuits: Couldn’t resist making them. Happy Valentine’s everyone wherever and whatever you’re doing ❤️#valentines #valentinesday #bakinglove #baking #homebaker #biscuit #cookies #fondant

Gluten Free Honey Cake: This was made for a member

Gluten Free Honey Cake: This was made for a member of staff leaving Maggies and he will be very sadly missed by all of us. He is also a beekeeper in his spare time and has kindly given me honey throughout the years to use in baking. He loves bees as much as I love baking . We all wish him the best in his retirement. 💕#bakinglove #baking #bakingtherapy #homebaker #beehive🐝 #beehivecake #cake #cakesofinstagram #bee #glutenfree #glutenfreecake

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