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Easy Pancake Recipes: Your Guide To The Perfect Day
Pancake Day was definitely a highlight of the year as a kid. It wasn’t often that you could gorge yourself on sugar-coated, chocolate stacks and call it dinner. As Pancake Day is just around the corner, I’ve put together a guide for three styles of easy pancake recipes. From Classic Crêpes, American style or healthy Banana & Oat, prepare to be in pancake heaven! Classic Crêpes The first of my easy pancake recipes are crepes. Originating from Brittany, France, these thin pancakes can be eaten sweet or savoury with a multitude of toppings or fillings. They remind me of winter as they’re often a warming post-ski treat or Christmas market…
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Easy lemon biscuit recipe
It’s National Biscuit Day here in the UK today and this easy lemon biscuit recipe is not only a yummy afternoon treat, it’s a fun and creative baking activity. Perfect if you’re quarantining with children and in need of something to keep them entertained. A weekend trip to Paris last year saw my mum returning with token gifts for my siblings and myself. As the baker in the family, it was only fitting I receive an Eiffel Tower biscuit cutter. Not that I need an excuse to bake, it felt only right to try out my new toy. Ingredients 6 oz / 175g soft, unsalted butter7 oz / 200g caster…
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Classic scones recipe (with clotted cream & jam)
In honour of the 75th anniversary of VE day, I’m sharing this classic scones recipe. No matter whether you rhyme scone with “gone” or “tone”, or spread your cream or jam on first; scones have a quintessentially British feel. They’re easy to make, delicious to eat and the perfect afternoon treat. Ingredients 12 oz / 350g self raising flour (plus extra for dusting)Pinch of salt1 tsp baking powder3oz / 85g butter3 tbsp caster sugar175ml warm milk (plus extra to glaze)1 tsp vanilla essence Serve with Clotted cream and jam Fresh strawberries (optional) Method Firstly, preheat the oven to 200 degrees / 390 Fahrenheit and line two large baking trays with…
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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…
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Hot cross buns (No yeast)
Happy Easter Sunday! Fancy making some hot cross buns but you haven’t got any yeast due to Covid-19? I’m here to help. It took me a long time to trust fruit in general, let alone in any baked goods. But, I’m now an avid lover of hot cross buns. Thankfully, its that time of the year again and I needed a fix. With all this time on my hands I thought I’d make my own, but sadly couldn’t find yeast anywhere! Then, I came across a recipe by Skinny Taste and thought I’d try them out. The below is my take on Skinny Taste’s hot cross buns recipe. Although, they…
