Cakes
It’s been a while since I last posted a recipe! In fact, almost three years! I have been working on recipes in that time and now have a few to post. With the success of first my Ginger and Almond Muffins, then my Chocolate and Almond Muffins, I’ve been recreating some of my past cakes and muffins along the same …
Biscuits
These biscuits are based on a recipe I obtained many years ago at a course on Italian cooking. It was coming up to Christmas and all of the recipes had a festive fare which for these biscuits meant they included rum! It does make them more decadent but is purely optional and they are as moreish without it! The original …
Muffins
Buoyed by the success of my Ginger and Almond Muffins, I decided to try a similar tack with chocolate muffins. I was never completely happy with my original Chocolate Muffins but using ground almonds instead of white rice flour has given them a new lease of life! If you’re thinking that the muffins look slightly misshapen, it is because I’ve …
Biscuits
Last year, I got into the habit of buying a packet of Griffin’s Cameo Cremes each time I went to the supermarket. I’m not sure why as I hadn’t bought biscuits for ages! After a while, I decided to try making a similar biscuit myself. The only real similarity is that these are two chocolate biscuits sandwiched together with a …
Slices
As the world enters uncharted times due to Coronavirus, what could be better for the soul than doing some home baking! I created the initial template for this recipe on St. Patrick’s Day last year. At that stage, I tried making natural food colouring by processing wilted spinach and water into a paste. It wasn’t too bad but it gave …
Muffins
Over the Christmas/New Year period, I was staying at mum and dad’s, and decided to make my Ginger Muffins for which I use a combination of white rice flour and brown rice flour. It turned out mum didn’t have any white rice flour so I substituted it with ground almonds and tweaked the other ingredients. The result was pretty good …
Muffins
After being away for a few days, the day after arriving home the only thing I had on hand for breakfast was an over-ripe banana! Thus these banana muffins were created. I didn’t want a sweet muffin, rather something that could be deemed slightly healthier! Most of the sweetness in these muffins comes from the banana and they have the …
Cakes
When I was young, I bought a recipe book titled “The Victorian Kitchen Book of Cakes and Cookies”. It contained a recipe for “Fine Almond Cake”. The cake looked delicious so I decided to try it. The recipe contained no baking powder nor did it call for self-raising flour. At the time, I wondered if neither of these were invented back then, …
Pastry
For a while now, I have been pondering the possibility of pastry without all the butter! Once again, ground almonds come to the fore. The oil in the almonds provides the fat without having to add extra oil or butter to the mixture. In addition, the ground almonds provide nutritional value that would not otherwise be present. Because there is …
Cakes
Sometimes a recipe happens because I don’t have the exact ingredient or amount of it that I would like. Such was the case with this Banana Cake. When initially creating the recipe, I decided to start with one cup of mashed banana. To my dismay, the only two ripe bananas that I had, mashed into just ¾ of a cup. In fact, …
