Black forest gateau recipe This black forest gateau recipe was one of the challenges the bakers had to face on The Great British Bake off Series 6, Episode one 2015. I set myself a challenge to bake all three challenges the bakers face and this is my result. I made...
Recipe for oat flapjacks with fruit Oat flapjacks with dried fruit are simple and quick to make and they taste delicious. They can also be easily adapted almost all types of dried fruit. You can have them with a hot drink, as a snack or you can cut them up and eat...
Poppy seed is an oilseed obtained from the opium poppy plant. The seeds are used, whole or ground, as an ingredient in many foods, and they are pressed to yield poppyseed oil. Poppy seeds, from my experience, do not add any flavour to the actual muffins, it just adds...
Vanilla marshmallow for gifts I had never considered marshmallow as something that could be made at home and it had never crossed my mind to try and make it at home until I came across a recipe for vanilla marshmallows. The recipe used egg whites instead of gelatine...
Home made chocolate covered marshmallow This chocolate covered marshmallow recipe is perfect for when you want to make a big batch to give out as gifts. When I make some marshmallow to give away for gifts I put it in transparent cellophane bags and tie with ribbons....
Vanilla Marshmallow without egg white This recipe is a great one because it uses gelatine instead of egg whites and the marshmallows do not stick together when stored close together or when touching each other like the marshmallow that uses egg whites. The first...
https://youtu.be/CORSHvqIlrU A Swiss roll is a fatless sponge cake. It is rolled up whilst still hot and left to cool completely before being unrolled and then spread with jam and/or double cream. Some people just put jam only and some buttercream icing with the jam....
https://youtu.be/XsenTlbs3xo All of you who are from where I'm from will know exactly what mabhanzi are and will need no introduction. For those who do not know, they are sweet buns which can be eaten anytime of day with or without a hot or cold drink This is my take...
I grew up eating store bought Scottish shortbread recipe called highlander biscuits. They were my favourite type of biscuits. I did not know what they were called at that time. If I remember well highlanders was the name of the company that made the biscuits. In...
How to make soft pretzel sticks One day whilst walking in the mall, I was approached by someone offering free samples of something I had never heard of until that moment. They were fresh, soft and had a bread like texture. The only pretzels I had come across were the...