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Bacon maple brownies
Thank you Nigella. They’re in the oven, so I don’t know yet if they are to die for, or a waste of some perfectly good ingredients. The constituent parts were scrummy (well, I had to lick the spoon...
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Banana goodness
So, most weeks I’ll buy some bananas at the supermarket, as I know he’ll take a banana to work each day, and it’s a way of getting towards that 5-a-day of fruit and veg. I hadn’t really thought...
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Chocolate morsels of love
Over a year ago I bought a silicone pan to make wee heart-shaped cakes, intending to make wee treats of love for Valentines Day. But I left the cake pan in Edinburgh, while I was enjoying Valentines in...
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Orange almond and chocolate cake
Baking for colleagues is incredibly rewarding. Baking for colleagues and asking them to make a donation to charity is even more rewarding. And when the charity is the organisation we all work for, it...
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Springtime apple cake
Yes, I know apples aren’t a very springtime fruit, but I don’t seem to have anything local and seasonal in the fruit department yet. No rhubarb, no Scottish berries, not even a British apple to be had...
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Shiny cake
Bear with me here. This cake isn’t especially shiny, but it is possibly the most delicious cake I’ve ever made. It also can pretend to be healthier than some cakes, as it is chock full of pineapple and...
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Apricot upside down cake
When life gives you apricots, you should just eat them. But when you still have more apricots than you know what to do with a week later, and they are in danger of going off, you should make cake with...
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Autumn baking
So, it’s October. I’m not entirely sure where September went, but it seems to have been and gone and now we are truly in the grip of Autumn. So, apart from all that lovely Autumnal weather (which is...
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Spiced cake (with added parsnips!)
I got it into my head that I wanted to make a parsnip cake. I could blame that cute James on the Great British Bake Off which is re-running daytimes this week, and I might just have caught some of it...
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Another chocolatey cakey thingie
Inspiration comes from many places. Today it came from a special offer at my local supermarket: they were selling off nearly out-of-date buttermilk so I popped a carton into my trolley. I’d thought...
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Boozy mini cakes for BozzyFest
We get the Sunday Times every weekend. And occasionally the Times on a Saturday too. Last weekend the Times promoted that it had recipes for Bank Holiday baking. So, of course, I didn’t see much of the...
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