Baking
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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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 [...]
Finally, it’s time to decorate the cake! It’s only been two months but now is the moment we’ve been waiting for, it’s time to finish it in advance of the main event … the eating! First thing you need to do is turn your cake onto an appropriately sized cake base or plate, I use [...]
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Christmas is almost upon us and we should be looking to decorate the cake in within the next few days, I suspect that I’ll be aiming for Monday, although only so I can get a post up here, otherwise I might be inclined to leave it for a couple more days and either do it [...]
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A little post about making marzipan and a reminder that your cake needs fed … The world’s best Christmas cake … ever! – Part 1 can be found here. It’s not too late to begin, but you do need to get a move on now … there’s feeding to be done! Feeding the cake is [...]
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Not many people like your average fruit cake, most people don’t like your average fruit Christmas cake … I don’t make average fruit Christmas cakes. And everyone like them. When I was little I remember Christmas cakes as being dry and largely unpalatable, the grown-ups seemingly forced themselves to partake – it was Christmas after-all [...]
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You may well be forgiven for believing that the only interest this site has is for needlework, carving, sculpting, painting or photography, yet there is another aspect to MadeStuff, stuff that we all make all the time, i.e. food! Of course I’m not about to reproduce every recipe I ever complete on here, after-all, sausage [...]
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