Here’s a bit of a blast from the past. When Twilight was the teen reading sensation in our house I made a Twilight birthday cake. The concept was simply to have a plain Victoria sponge cake and top it with buttercream. If you squint a bit you can imagine this looks like the cover of… Read More »
I made pancakes for Shrove Tuesday. They were good, very good. American style big fat fluffy pancakes. Then I went too far. I thought “pancakes – good”, “pie – good”, “apple – good”, therefore Apple Pancake Pie must be good. It wasn’t. It took much much longer to cook than the recipe suggested and it… Read More »
I made what we called S’mores cake for a birthday. It was Nigella Lawson’s Chocolate Sour Cream Cake, which is great, sandwiched together with chocolate buttercream and Tunnocks Tea Cakes – the finest of all the tea cakes. It tasted good but was very clearly a chocolate sponge with teacakes in the middle. It would… Read More »