Recipes
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Recipe – St. Valentine’s Day Biscuits
Now they say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach so let’s make some nice chocolate biscuits to offer him on St. Valentine’s day. This recipe makes 20 biscuits and if you have a heart shaped biscuit cutter they will look very special. Oven 375 F 190 C gas Continue reading
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Recipe – Coconut & Orange Cake
This is not the ordinary cake that we usually make, this one is made by a rubbing-in method which some people find easier. The rubbing-in method puts the air into the cake mixture just as the beating of the butter and sugar does with the creaming method. It can produce a much more open Continue reading
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Recipe – Flourless Chocolate Cake
A recipe for those people who have asked for gluten free cake. I just hope they are okay with cocoa powder! This is not an airy well risen cake as you can imagine but it does taste nice and especially if you warm a piece in the microwave and serve it with fresh cream or Continue reading
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Recipe – Sweet Cheese Tarts
Now we all know how to make pastry (or buy it) so I will just tell you what you need: 6 oz short crust pastry for this recipe, sweet or not depending on your taste. Filling: 8 oz Cottage or Curd Cheese – whichever you can buy 2 oz Sugar 2oz Currants Continue reading
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Recipe – Vanilla Slice
Vanilla slices or custard slices are very popular here and on the Continent. You can make them from scratch or use ready made pastry, but either way they are good! You will need: 8 oz of puff pastry made with 8 oz plain flour, a pinch of salt, Continue reading
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Recipe – Battenburg Cake
This is the most fiddly cake I have ever made but the taste makes up for it! Finding red food coloring was not easy either, my first attempt at this cake turned out green and yellow instead of pink and yellow. When I have made this in the past with my Mum we used cochineal Continue reading
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Recipe – Italian Meringue Icing
If you do not want to use cream cheese style icing for your red velvet cake then you can use this Italian Meringue Icing which is a very light buttery type of icing that taste delicious with red velvet cake. It is a little bit more work, but worth it! You Continue reading
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Recipe – Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet cake is basically a chocolate cake with red coloring so you can use a Betty Crocker cake mix or use the chocolate cake we made earlier in the year and add some red coloring. You can also use a tub of Betty Crocker Cream Cheese style icing or you can make an icing Continue reading
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Recipe – Christmas Cake
Now I realize a lot of you will not be making your own Christmas cake, it seems to be a British tradition at Christmas, some people do and some do not, I think every household in the UK who make their own cake will have their own recipe for Christmas cake. I always make my Continue reading
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