Baking
For the lad’s birthday! Recipe available on request … but, hell! is it convoluted!?
Following the recent budget someone saw fit to put tax on pasties, all is not lost though! There is a loophole … you can make your own and avoid this draconian assault on the great pasty! We’ve gone largely vegetarian of late, given the appalling quality of meat and the soaring prices attached … actually, [...]
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This is from BBC Good Food…easy and quick to make and very adaptable for any sort of biscuit/cookie you might want to make. Ingredients 250g butter 140g caster sugar (I used granulated and it’s fine) 1 egg yolk 2tsp vanilla extract 300g plain flour 1. Cream together the butter and sugar. The butter should be [...]
A dead-easy and dead-quick shortbread recipe, all in it shouldn’t take more than 30-40 minutes before it’s sat and cooling off! All you’re going to need is: 1/2 lb butter 3/4 cup icing sugar 1 cup self-raisng flour a dash of milk Then you’re going to need to: Cream the butter and sugar together add [...]
I’ve not been completely idle since my last post on here, what feels like an age ago. Mostly I’ve not been making stuff, but with budgets tightening we have been looking to cut costs wherever we can, not least of all in terms food, anyway, it turns out that flour and yeast is significantly cheaper [...]
Cake pops are little balls of cake stuck onto lolly pop sticks and covered in chocolate and sprinkles, like so… The kids and I spent a few hours this afternoon coating our cake balls in chocolate. A somewhat onerous task but the result is well worth it. You need: Cake – any sort, ready made, [...]
First things first, happy [belated] birthday Jolene!! Her birthday was actually last Thursday, but alas work commitments took her away to far flung and desperate lands so we had to postpone the day until Saturday. As is now traditional in the house Jo was allowed to choose what sort of cake she wanted and I [...]
I made this cake at the request of my wee boy who wanted it for his seventh birthday, no doubt he wanted it due to the large quantities of chocolate involved and the extremely pretty picture in the recipe book which was all swirls and twirls of chocolate … not a finish I was able [...]
I made and decorated this as a birthday cake, although it’s probably best described as a ‘cafe cake’. It seems we have developed something of a family tradition over the last few years, namely that the birthday person chooses a cake from the cake book and I make it for them. This time around it [...]
Those that know me will realise that I enjoy my politics, what they may not realise is that every time there is a major election (Westminster or Holyrood) I enjoy sitting up through the night watching the results coming in and waiting to see if any of the most irritating politicians will be losing their [...]
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