Cake
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Easy Chocolate Birthday Cake with Sprinkles
Last week, I turned 26 – hooray! And it wouldn’t be a birthday without chocolate cake. As the chief baker in the family, it’s my job to create something special for those I love and it’s honestly one of my favourite things to do. I really enjoy creating something with the person receiving it in mind. Perhaps using their favourite flavours, textures or food combos as inspiration. However, November 5th is the one day I’m not allowed to bake. One day a year, I’m treated to others baking for me. This year I was spoilt. I received not 1, not 2, but 3 masterful cakes! The first was by my…
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Flour-less Chocolate Cake Recipe
I love chocolate, and if it’s in the form of a cake, even better. You can never go wrong, and I think in this COVID era, it’s important to enjoy little pleasures where possible. This flour-less chocolate cake is taken from my ski season days and is a well reviewed dessert that needs to be shared. The recipe is simple, quick to make and without the need for flour, it’s gluten-free – so semi healthy, right? The ingredients and method below outline the basic process for making this flour-less chocolate cake as it is. The result, a thick and dense chocolatey cake that’s incredibly moorish. But, if you’d like to…
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Easy peach crumble cake recipe with syrup glaze
Looking for an easy but delicious dessert for your bank holiday weekend? Try this peach crumble cake recipe. The combination of crumble and cake in one is just too good not to enjoy and I promise, won’t last a sitting! Plus, seeing as August is National Peach Month, it’s only right to celebrate this sumptuous fruit before the month is up. A chance discovery at the back of our kitchen cupboards during the depths of lockdown resulted in me finding a rogue can of peaches. Keen to make good use of them, I scouted round Pinterest (always my go-to recipe search engine) to find inspiration on what I could create.…
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The Best Self-Saucing Chocolate Pudding Recipe
This self-saucing chocolate pudding recipe is the ultimate guilty pleasure. The crunchy top, smooth middle and oozing, rich chocolate sauce makes it a show stopper of a dessert. The method is very simple, can be put together in a matter of minutes and will have you nursing a food coma just long enough to go back for a second scoop. The recipe is James Martin’s Baked Double Chocolate Pudding which was kindly shared by a family friend who understands my deep love for chocolate. This chocolate pudding swiftly became a family favourite, and soon necessity for isolation survival during the height of the lockdown lows. My twist, however, turns it…
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Lemon drizzle traybake recipe
This lemon drizzle traybake recipe is a firm favourite in the eyes of my colleagues. A week doesn’t go by without someone hinting at the empty space where some baked goods could be sitting. Never one to miss an opportunity to bake, I often take the cue and get to work concoting something delicious for the team. Obviously, things have changed since the virus hit. Instead of baking for the office, I’m baking for the family who are ever hopeful that I’ve knocked up something sweet for the afternoon. The fundamentals of baking, when using ounzes as the measurement, are to have equal quantities of butter, sugar and flour, to…
