This is my last bake for Great British Bake Off, as this week was the final. The showstopper challenge was a landscape. As I just got back from a holiday in Cornwall a couple of weeks ago, I thought I should make a Cornish Coast Cake. The brief said the bakers had to have three
Stem Ginger Cake, something I’d love to bake, but something my husband was reluctant to eat because it has… ginger. Imagine how delighted I was when I saw that the signature challenge at Bake Off was ginger cake. Initially I wanted to make a big cake, like they did, but this week I’m baking all
When I saw Le Gâteau Vert-Vert at the Great British Bake Off, I wanted to try it. As a child, my favourite cake was Krantz cake, a German cake my grandmother used to make for me for my birthday each year. That cake has walnuts in both the sponge and cream. My husband loves cakes
I’ve made Tres Leches Cake three times so far. For the first two times I’ve made a recipe that didn’t work, the sponge was flat and not very nice looking. The cake was still delicious though. After that I’ve made a new recipe and it worked lovely, thus I’m sharing the recipe. I will make
Yesterday Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, celebrated his 97th birthday. I planned for a while that I will mark this occasion by making his favourite dessert: Andrassy Pudding. The Queen has a different favourite cake, Tschumi’s Chocolate Cake, one that I made last year for my birthday. That chocolate cake will make its way onto
On my Royal recipes series I usually use recipes that the Royal family would have. For the recipe I’m sharing today, Elderflower and Lemon Cake, I’m using the flavours Meghan chose for the cake, as a twist to a Victoria sponge. I’ve made the elderflower and lemon cake for Saturday, when we’ve watched the Royal
I made this cake to celebrate a decade of being vegetarian. It’s a big thing for me, that’s why I’ve wanted to celebrate it with an amazing cake; so I’ve made Chocolate Mousse Cake. I’ve decorated the cake with freeze dried strawberries and cocoa nibs, they add a lovely texture to the mousse cake. Chocolate
