Strawberries from the garden, egg whites from the freezer, chocolate from the store cupboard – I only had to buy the whipping cream. I nearly got away with a free dessert! The slightly adapted recipe is by Mary Berry and one I have used many, many times and in true Mary Berry style – I…
This cake uses tinned crushed pineapple but a tin of pineapple slices or cubes can be used, unfortunately fresh pineapple wouldn’t work because you need to use the juice from the tin. The topping is a cream cheese icing and I know recipes always say cakes can’t be frozen with this icing but I find…
Some days it’s easy to misjudge how long things are going to take and I didn’t allow enough time to make my cake, hence the Black Forest cake is a ‘little messy’ on the sides of the cake. Once the cream was ‘set’ I couldn’t clean up the outside of the cake. On the positive…
The last three cakes I’ve made have used tinned crushed pineapple and thankfully I have now used up the last tin………..I chose to make this cake because I love the name Hummingbird Cake! Apparently this cake recipe has been around since the 19th century and is a tradition in the Southern United States. Hummingbird cake…
I came across this scone recipe on the BBC Good Food website and they looked so temptingly delicious I thought I’d get the pinny on and see how they turned out. Coconut and raspberries are a delightful combo, these light and fluffy scones are amazing and all you need is a dollop of whipped cream…
My miniature daffodils are about to come out in bloom, the sun has shone at least a couple of times this week and I am still hopeful the dead patch on the front lawn, where the skip sat for a few weeks, will suddenly spring into life and we’ll see some grass poking through. Lemon…
I turned to one of my Mary Berry cookbooks for this delicious recipe – I’ve adapted her lime and blueberry ring drizzle cake and used lemon to replace her suggested lime but only because I had lemons in the fridge, this was an instantaneous bake and there wasn’t time to go out shopping for a…
I was given this recipe by a family member, her grand daughter has in the past been unable to eat dairy products and this is the turn to recipe which is perfect for everyone, including all chocoholics. I’ve very slightly adapted the recipe. My icing includes dairy but the cake is just as delicious without…
This easy to make blackberry buttermilk sponge has a lovely tender crumb and if you can get hedgerow blackberries the cake will taste even better. My blackberries came from the supermarket, they were absolutely fine (but make sure they aren’t dessert blackberries) or raspberries would be good to use too. The sponge is best served…
I bought a punnet of plums from Aldi, these were an impulse purchase based on price and the fact that the plums looked so pretty! There were only 5 plums and I decided that cutting them up into slices was the way to go. The buttery pastry base is easy to make and likewise with…
