When I arrived in this morning one of my team had placed a cutting from today’s Daily Mail on my desk and you’ve guessed it was all about cupcakes!
The article is very amusing, it’s written by a ‘grumpy male mid-lifer’ – the authors words not mine! It talks about the current obsession with cupcakes and quotes other magazines such as vogue, apparently
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As many of you will be well aware we are completely snowed in here in Wendover, UK. Schools have been closed since last Wednesday and it’s been really tricky to get to work. Most of us have been staying put, snuggled up cosy inside. This kind of weather evokes a desire for warming comfort food… soups, rustic ’slow’ food, hot drinks and baking. Being forced inside gives us a chance to do all the… Continue reading
If you haven’t been to one of our workshops you won’t have sampled Sally’s wonderful Lemon Drizzle Cake which she sometimes brings along with her. Students have requested the recipe so here it is.
Ingredients
4oz (100g) Soft Margarine
6oz (175g) Caster Sugar
6oz (175g) Self-raising Flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
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After several requests from workshop students, I am posting the “Madeira Cake” blog. Good luck and hope this helps you.
Before working at Lindy’s I had never made a Madeira cake. My first attempts weren’t great – they came out of the oven domed, very crispy on the outside and really dry. I had conquered the decorating but the cakes weren’t getting eaten! So Lindy set me a challenge… Continue reading
This cake truly deserves a much more glamorous name. I have been baking it since my mother taught me the recipe in the 1980s, an eager teenage cook desperate to emulate my mother’s glorious creations! It has a certain nostalgia in our family appearing at all birthdays and special events through the decades to this very day. A versatile sponge that works equally well iced simply, served with a cup… Continue reading
At the recent cake decorators seminar in Sydney I demonstrated how to decorate a selection of my cookie designs – this relatively new idea to Australians seem to go down a treat so due to the multiple requests for a good recipe, I have copied below my favourite from my ‘Bake me I’m yours… cookie’ book.
Spiced Orange Cookie Recipe
75g (3oz) butter
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Ummm who can resist a really good, moist chocolate cake? I’ve been experimenting with the Australian wedding favourite – mud cake. As many of you may know I am demonstrating at the National Cake Seminar in Sydney in August, so I thought a little background research would be good….. a great excuse to eat lots of chocolate!
I’ve tried three recipes – I’m aware that UK ingredients… Continue reading
I found a very interesting article on the Trendhunter magazine website which I thought you all might interesting. The article looks at 65 examples of food as art from around the world, decorated cakes and cupcakes do obviously feature but there are many other examples as well including bread art, jelly bean art and sushi art. Here are just a few of the ones I found interesting.
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We all love birthday cake but why does it represent our birthday?
I have just been reading a very interesting American blog post by Kaci Daugherty entitled “Food Cultures of Birthday Celebrations” in which she says that the custom:-
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