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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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Recipe – Sponge Drops
We have made sponges before, but they were large sponge cakes. This time I made some sponge drops, individual sponge cakes. You will need the basic sponge mixture: 2 eggs 4 oz caster sugar 4 oz sifter self raising flour A few drops of Vanilla essence 1 tablespoon hot water Oven 200… Continue reading
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Recipe – Custard Tart
Remember all those recipes we did using egg whites? Well now is the time to use some egg yolks. Custard tarts are easy to make and very tasty so here goes. You will need: 4 oz sweet short crust pastry, made with 4 oz flour, 2oz butter and 2 oz sugar. Rub… Continue reading
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Recipe – Oysters
No, not the fishy type…the cream bun type! Oysters and a variation on Maids of Honour which we made some time ago. It is a pastry base with an almond flavoured cake on top and a jam and cream filling. In order to put the fresh cream in we need to bake the cakes first… Continue reading
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Recipe – Madeira Cake
A Madeira cake is what we call a rich cake even though it does not have any fruit in it. It is a plain cake with a close texture and is delicious sliced and spread with a little butter. You will need: 5 oz butter 5 oz caster sugar 3 eggs,… Continue reading
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