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I have always adored passion fruit, such a fabulous flavour, exotic and tangy. So I thought I’d share this delightful recipe for passion fruit cupcakes, which I picked up in a supermarket in Singapore! I have tweaked it slightly. Passion fruits are now readily available in UK supermarkets so there is no reason why you also can’t enjoy this recipe.
Beautiful passion fruit – yum!
Some taste combinations work beautifully together and one of my favourites at the moment is raspberry and dark chocolate. These two ingredients not only look fantastic together but compliment each other extremely well, as the tartness of the raspberries is balanced by the sweetness of the chocolate.
This year, the raspberries at the bottom of my garden are being wonderfully prolific, which has meant I’ve been able to experiment… Continue reading
I have always loved chocolate biscuit cake, but haven’t eaten it for years – however I think that after last Friday’s Royal Wedding, we are going to be seeing a huge rise in its popularity. The recipe for Prince William’s wedding cake was, we are told, taken from Princess Diana’s personal chef, Darren McGrady cookbook ‘Eating Royally‘, with a few secret ingredients added.
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Invariably my teenage son and his friends arrive in my kitchen, just as I’m taking a cake or cupcakes out of the oven! They are of course ‘starving’ and simply have to cake…..however sometimes I feel very mean, as one of my son’s friends is allergic to eggs – a dry biscuit is not quite the same as a freshly baked cake!!! So when I stumbled across a vegan chocolate… Continue reading
I have been experimenting recently with a chocolate fudge cake recipe that my sister gave me years ago. I love the chocolate cake recipe that appears in many of my cake books but it does take a while to make and creates loads of washing up to do afterwards! The Chocolate mud cake recipe on this blog is also very popular with my family but it is a… Continue reading
My new cupcake celebration book is about to hit the shelves so I thought I’d tempt you with one of the cake recipes – a taster of what’s to come! If you haven’t yet ordered your copy why not do so now…!! Click to order
Easy to make – delicious to eat!
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
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
75g (3oz) soft brown… Continue reading
I keep being asked how to adapt/scale a cake recipe to bake a larger or smaller cake. It’s not difficult and instructions are given in both my ‘Cakes to Inspire and Desire’ and ‘Celebrate with a cake!’ books! Below however is the chart you will need:
How to use the chart:
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
Sugarpaste, also referred to as rolled fondant or ready roll icing, is available from supermarkets and cake decorating suppliers in many countries of the world. However not everyone likes what is available to them and many countries new to the craft of cake decorating do not have a ready source of sugarpaste, so I’m often asked how is it made.
We are very lucky here in the UK we… Continue reading
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