Monthly Archives: May 2012
Red Velvet Swiss Roll
In keeping with all the Jubilee baking that’s about at the moment I bring you the Red Velvet Swiss Roll!
Blueberry & Vanilla Battenberg
A Battenberg with a subtle nod to the Jubilee – Battenberg goes red, white and blue!
Ingredients:
200g butter, softened
200g caster sugar
4 eggs
200g self-raising flour
90g blueberries
1 tsp vanilla bean paste or the seeds scraped from one vanilla bean pod.
Carrot Cake
A traditional cake but still one of my favourites, it’s good for feeding the masses too!
Ingredients:
225ml sunflower oil
3 eggs, large
120g golden syrup
150g soft light brown sugar
240g self-raising flour
1½ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp allspice (if you don’t have allspice you can just leave it out!)
½tsp ground ginger
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
300g grated carrots
Perfect Cream Cheese Frosting
This is the perfect recipe for cream cheese frosting. It’s pipeable, spreadable and will set just nicely for you without running all over the place, but there are a few things to remember.
Brownie Baking with Lurpak and a Giveaway
To celebrate baking with Lurpak I’m doing a spot of Brownie Baking
Black Forest Berry Brownies – care to join me??
These are my Nanna’s favourite and I often make her some up and trip round with them – she slices it up and then bobs it in the freezer.
Pineapple and Raspberry Cupcakes
Zingy fruity cupcakes packing a taste of sunshine and perfect for adorning with your own Pineapple Flowers.
Makes 12.
Ingredients:
200g butter, softened
100g soft brown sugar
75g caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 eggs
200g self raising flour
140g fresh chopped pineapple
80g raspberries, frozen
1 x batch of Cream Cheese frosting recipe here
12 x Pineapple Flowers to decorate – instructions here
Preheat oven to 160c (fan)/180c/Gas Mark 4.
How to Make Pineapple Flowers
How beautiful do these look? They taste great too!
I won’t lie they’re a bit of a faff – okay quite a lot of a faff but they certainly have the wow factor and if you fancy spending an afternoon messing with a pineapple then these are just up your street!
