Big Pancakes Mixture

1 cup S.R Flour
1 cup Yoghurt
1 cup Milk
2 large Eggs
0.25 t Bicarbonare Soda

Mix it all together. Cook in medium sized frying pan and move mixture to cover whole pan. Great with fillings.

3 Berry Black Forest Gateau

If you can make choc cake its just a case of whipping cream and assembly for dramatic results!

 grating coolate and preping berries.

Make standard choc cake in to sandwich tins(cadburys milk powder recipe)

 to assembly:

1. Place holes in bottom cake and pour Kirsch into them(I used kirsch from jar of cherries in Kirsch).
   
2. Whip 2 cartons of yeo valley double cream, with 3 T of sieved icing sugar and 1t of vanilla extract.
3. Spread half of the cream onto the cake.
4. Grate G&B dark cooks choc onto cream on cake.
5. Place  raspberries on edge and cherries from kirsch jar into centre(this is to hide them from dd who wont eat cherries!)
6. Place top layer cake on.
7. Decorate as before with an extra layer of grated choc b4 spreading on cream.
8. Decorate top with raspberries and strawberry slices.
9. Dust with vanilla sugar powder.

Chai

Boil freshly grated ginger and cinnamon with
black tea
add milk and sugar to taste

Warming and soothing

Baileys Cookies

Great with coffee!

Don't turn your back or they will all disappear very quickly!!
Best to make the coffee whilst in oven ;)

Method and Ingredients:

4oz softened unsalted butter beaten with
2oz soft light brown muscovado sugar
Beat in 1 beaten egg.
Add 1 T Baileys Irish Cream and
1 t Vanilla extract
Gently fold in 5 oz plain flour and 1/2 t baking powder.
Add about 2-4oz of a mix of white, milk and or dark chocolate chips.
Place 1 t of mixture onto baking sheet lined with paper.
Cook on 180degrees C for 10 minutes.
Cool and enjoy!

These cookies can be made by omitting the Baileys for teetotalers.

Fruit n nut cookies - with or without egg

Ingredients:

150g soft butter
1/2 cup soft dark brown sugar
1/2 cup soft light brown sugar
1 T dessicated coconut
2 T flaked almonds
2 T dried cherries
2 T chopped dried apricots
1 T pumpkin seeds
1 cup plain flour
1 t baking powder
2.5 cups oats
1 egg or 1/2 cup whipped double cream

Method:

• cream butter and sugars
• add egg or lightly whipped cream
• add flour
• add fruit n nuts n oats
• roll into balls and flatten
• cook at 160 deg C for 20 minutes
  

Ayurvedic Sweets

Dry tickly cough-try this:

• Soak almonds in water overnight.
• Remove there skins
• Make a paste of the peeled almonds with a little butter and sugar

This is good for a dry cough. My daughter is very suspicious of any paste like food items, so I turned the paste into balls and coated them in sprinkles and chocolate flakes.
Now show me a child who can resist medicine which looks like sweets!

Rasmalai

Simple recipe

MMMMMmmmmm Tastes as good as it looks.

I found this recipe on the www first but something about it was not working for me. I called my aunt for her recipe which I heard also uses ricotta cheese. It sounded the same but I asked her to send me the recipe. One simple stage made all the difference-Mix together by hand! Previously I had unwittingly used a whisk and the results were a close texture rather than a more crumbly open texture achieved by hand mixing. My addition to the recipe is the vanilla flavoured milk syrup and the ground cardamon.

You need:

• ricotta cheese 2 cartons
• sugar 1/4 to 1/2 cup, depending on how sweet toothed you are!
• ground cardamon 1 t
• 1 pint whole milk
• 1/2-1 large can evaporated milk (or use 2 pints of milk instead)
• vanilla dusting sugar
• flaked almonds or pistachios and rose petals to decorate

1. Mix the first 3 ingredients together by hand
2. Divide the mixture into a lined 12 cup muffin pan
3. Cook in oven for 40 mins fan oven 160 degrees C (lower if using more sugar)
4. Reduce the pint of milk to half by bringing to the boil and then simmering on a low heat.
5. Add the evaporated milk and a good dusting of the vanilla icing sugar(1t)
6. Place the cooked patties into the prepared milk syrup and chill.
7. Decorate-especially good with crushed pistachios!

Rocket Cake

This chocolate brownie cake tastes a lot better than its gaudy looks.

The mix for it was rather colourful too!

Hot Chocolate Float with Sprinkles

When you can't wait for hot chocolate to cool down before drinking-hot choc float!

His n Hers

Quick Healthy Chocolate Fruit n Nut Brownies

This recipe has been requested by many who have tried them. Made healthy by adding lots of dried fruits and 'good fat' nuts.

In a bowl add:

• 150g golden granulated sugar
• 100g dark muscovado sugar
• 75g ground almonds
• 65g cocoa powder
• 100g SR flour

A handful of each or either of:

• pumpkin seeds
• milk chocolate chips
• white chocolate chips
• dried cranberries or sour cherries
  
• dried bluberries or raisins
  
• dried organic apricots
• pecans or walnuts
• chopped hazelnuts or brazil nuts
  Mix these together (the bold is my preferred combination) and then add:

• 200ml rapeseed oil
• 2-3 t vanilla extract
• 3 large eggs
  
  

Mix dry with wet and tranfer to a rectangle cake tin lined with greaseproof paper and cook at 160C for 25 minutes. Allow to cool in tin before cutting into desired pieces. Great with coffee!

Photos to follow with next batch. I keep giving them away and my family miss them so its back to the baking bowl.

Choc Cake Recipe

Sponge

• 6oz SR flour

• 6oz cadbury's drinking chocolate and 0.5 t baking powder

• 6oz soft butter

• 6oz light brown muscovado sugar

• 4 large eggs

• Optional 1-2 T chocolate chips(milk and dark choc)

1. Cream butter and sugar together
2. Add beaten eggs one at a time
3. Add sieved dry ingredients
4. Divide between 2 cake tins and bake at 180 deg. C for 20-25minutes
5. Cool and ice.

Icing

• 7oz good quality milk choc

• 3oz good quality dark choc

• 1 standard carton organic double cream( about284 ml)

• 1 t vanilla extract

1. Melt the chocolate pieces in a glass bowl placed over boiled water in a pan.
   
2. Stir from time to time, and cool a little once melted
3. Add cream and vanilla extract and beat together
4. Use to sandwich cake and ice.
   

Cakes, cakes and more cakes!

I think I may have to change my blog title to something more cakey soon! I just can't resist posting cake pictures! A request has been made (via phone) for the strawberries and cream cake.

Basic sponge cake recipe

It is a basic sponge cake recipe. I usually use the all in one method and the important thing is too have all ingredients at room temperature and the butter does need to be very soft. All ingredients I use are organic where possible.
You need:

6oz soft unsalted soft butter
6oz caster sugar
3 large eggs
6oz self-raising flour(Or plain flour with 1t baking powder and 0.5 t bicarb)
1 t vanilla extract

Mix all together and transfer into two sandwich cake tins and bake on 180 deg.C for 20-25 minutes. Cool and use as you wish.

For the strawberries and cream cake I sandwiched together using homemade rhubarb and raspberry compote and butter icing. Top iced with double cream and vanilla dusting sugar and decorated with organic strawberries.

Strawberries and Cream Cake

Happy Birthday to a dear friend

She shared it generously with all her families! |Her sweet little niece said it is the best cake she has ever tasted. Ahhhh, Thank you.

Lemon and vanilla Cheesecake

Recipe coming soon.

Cake Stall

Our story

It all started with mixing.

Add dried fruit to make them healthier and ease your conscience

Prepare for the masses.

Henny Penny helps to keep the eggs at room temp for those impromptu midnight baking sessions!

Feeling bare?
Quick, cover us up before the kids see the fruit.

Ahhhh! That's better.

Can I eat just one?

Cherry and coconut loaf cake

Coconut and Cherry Cake

This cake came about from a sleepless night. You know those times when you go to bed so wired and tired and all sorts of random thoughts come to your head. Well I could not get the glace cherries lurking in the back of my fridge out of my mind. Why have I not made cherry and coconut cake yet!?! This used to be a childhood favourite as my dad was quite partial to it. I was close to getting out of bed at 1.30am to make it but thankfully I waited until the morning. Afternoon to be precise. It was out of this world delicious and I had to blog the recipe in case It goes out of my head, until the next sleepless night.




Ingredients:
5oz soft butter
1oz margarine (ran out of soft butter)
6 oz caster sugar
3 med-large eggs whisked with 1 t vanilla extract
2-3 T milk
8oz plain flour
1t baking powder
1/2 t bicarbonate of soda (half)
2-3 drops of almond essence (extract would be nice but horses for courses)
1oz of glace cherries mixed with 2oz of dessicated coconut
( I find the crazy jack organic coconut variety to be the tastiest and closest to freshly grated.)

• cream together fats and sugar
• add everything else and mix( Although I did add the cherries and coconut after first combining other ingredients.)
• Place in two 1 lb loaf tins lined with greaseproof paper and bake in a preheated oven 180 degrees C for 40-45 minutes.
• Cool and eat after 4 hours( tastes even better I found)

Very more-ish and hard to share, but you must!

Choco Cupcakes

It was a hot day today. I had warm eggs that needed using up(you know when you leave them out of the fridge in case you want to bake). So which cake? Well I decided to check on how much soft butter I had and then one thing led to another and this recipe was born. They are very more-ish and easy to make with minimal washing up!

In a bowl add:

• 4oz very soft butter
• 4oz caster sugar
• 1oz ground almonds
• 1oz cocoa powder(put through a small sieve)
• 2oz self-raising flour(put through the same small sieve)
• 1t vanilla extract
• 1T white chocolate drops(mini buttons for cookies)

Mix everything together with a spoon and divide into 12 cupcake cases in a muffin pan.
Bake in a preheated oven for 20 minutes at just under 180degrees.
Cool and eat warm with a strong cup of coffee or tea:)

Popcorn

SWEET OR SALTY?

WARNING: If your cherubs try the sweet toffee option the answer to the above question will always be both!! Hmmmm gone are the days of a quick bowl of salty popcorn. Recipe to follow soon.

Toffee Marshmallow Krispies

Too easy to make!

You need:

9 toffee sweeties
9 fat marshmallows
1 stingy T golden syrup
75g butter
100g rice krispies or cornflakes or combo
12 smarties to decorate

Do this:

Place first 4 ingredients into a pan on low heat and stir until melted
Add cereal and spoon into 12 muffin cases in muffin pan
Decorate with a smarties and try not to eat for at least an hour(setting)

Cookies with Milk

Still too hot!

WOww, (s)Weetie ones too!

Now, how do we make them healthier?

Just add milk!