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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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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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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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Cream Cheese Carrot Cake Recipe
This cream cheese carrot cake recipe is one that’s been handed down from my grandma to my mum and now to me and it’s one of my favourite cakes – and so simple to make! Thankfully spring has arrived! And yes, we may not be able to fully enjoy it in all its glory of pub gardens and BBQs just yet, but that doesn’t mean we can’t find little moments of pleasure right now. For me, that’s baking. Sandwiched and topped with thick layers of cream cheese icing (the yummiest icing if you ask me), this is the best cream cheese carrot cake recipe. It’s certainly hearty, moist, and always…
