Pain au chocolat making requires some technical skills, it does take a while to make but well worth with when you get the hang of it. Pain au chocolat is perfect for breakfast and other times of day. Some people cut them and put savoury fillings in between....
Baking for friends I love baking at random times and that often means surprise goodies for friends, family, neighbours, our local gymnastics club and tennis club. When I am baking for friends I sometimes turn up unannounced just to drop off whatever it is that I would...
Baking with goose eggs Since I started baking I have only used hen eggs. I'm guessing this is because hen eggs are readily available in most places. It's not until today when I saw some goose eggs in our local shop that I decided to buy one and then I thought this...
https://youtu.be/SFIgOiqjaBs In this video tutorial I am going to show you how to cover a round fruit cake with marzipan. You will need the following A round fruit cake (to bake one there is a recipe here 750 grams of Marzipan a rolling pin 2 tablespoons apricot jam...
https://youtu.be/UpwSstIFbrY This fruit cake recipe is easy to make. It is an alcohol free fruit cake recipe so fruit juice as an alcohol substitute is used. I was quite thrilled when I noticed that most supermarkets now do mixed fruit packets with all the fruit...
https://youtu.be/8Ijv-PlSwE4 I recently came across foodie flavours. They are the best flavours I have come across. I have been playing around with them and one of the recipes I came up with is this absolutely amazing bubblegum flavour marshmallow recipe. 140 ml...
This bubblegum cupcakes recipe is the first amongst many foodie flavour recipes I will be sharing with you. As I wrote in a previous post I bought some natural foodie flavours for the first time at the Cake International NEC March 2016. Had I not had the chance to...
In this recipe I will be showing you how to bake this beautiful and delicious 3 layer cake which I call the Vanilla Chocolate Caramel Ombre Cake Recipe. The dulce de leche I used in this recipe can be bought in supermarkets where I live. If you cannot find it in your...
I love how the butter melts on delicious, fresh homemade bread! Hot cross buns are easier to make than one would think. Like most of my bread and bun recipes I like to start the baking process the day before so that I can have some freshly baked bread or buns for...
In this video I will be showing you how to make marshmallow flowers, marshmallow chrysanthemums, mums or chrysanths, for short. I baked some vanilla cupcakes which I used in this video but you can bake any cupcake flavours of your choice. I also made a marshmallow...