This homemade marmalade is beautifully flavoursome and ten times better than shop bought. It takes a little time to make but is quite straightforward. This recipe makes 6 jars so plenty for you and some for your friends too...
Buttercream is my go to cupcake topping and it can be used in so many other recipes too. It is quite an old fashioned frosting and I remember using it when I first started baking with my mum when I was a child. I have adapted the original recipe we used then to make it much lighter; both in texture and in colour by using half butter and half white vegetable shortening and whipping them together thoroughly. When adding colour, it's best to use the gel variety as this doesn't alter the texture as much as liquid food colourings do. Having a buttercream which is lighter in colour, also helps to get a true colour without the buttery yellow affecting the result. Of all the frostings I've made, this is by far the easiest and most reliable for the beginner...
Here's a quick and easy way to make your own chocolate decorations for adding to cakes and desserts. Today I'm making iant sprinkles but you can use this technique to make your own designs by drawing or printing out your own shapes and tracing them in piped chocolate onto the baking paper.
Cream Cheese Frosting is a great frosting for a cake. It has a lovely background tang to its flavour and goes so well with carrot cake or any soft, lightly flavoured cake. I find, it’s always good to have a batch in the freezer so I tend to double this quantity in order to use half and store half so that next time I bake, the frosting is already done. It just needs to be brought back to room temperature. I will often pop it into an icing bag complete with nozzle and clipped at the other end then into an airtight bag to make it even easier to use once defrosted…
Here’s a very simple recipe for making your own coloured sugar. It’s real easy to do and looks so pretty as a decoration on top of cakes & biscuits.
This is a very simple and easy recipe. With just two ingredients, you can add a beautifully chocolaty topping to any cake. Tony's chocolate is a little more expensive, and the reason for this is they make sure that the cocoa chain of their chocolate production is equally valued at each level. You can find their message inside the wrapper of each delicious bar...
How to make Chocolate Cream for Frosting & Filling a Cake... Here’s a very simple recipe for both covering and filling a cake. It used the best coco powder and this method makes the whisking so quick so you will have a tasty filling or topping for your cake with a gorgeous chocolatey flavour in seconds.
This is a smooth and silky chocolate sauce which can be poured over a dessert or piped into cakes. To thin the sauce for pouring, just warm the sauce and add milk a little at a time, mixing after each addition until the desired consistency is reached. It is lovely used to fill a large cake or little cupcakes before frosting them...
Try this beautifully tasty buttercream to fill and cover cakes. It's great on cupcakes and adds a lovely coffee flavoured addition to your bake...
This beautifully flavoursome Mascapone Cream Frosting is great as a topping for a variety of cupcake flavours; coffee, chicolate, vanilla, cinnamon, spice and cherry would all march well. It's light texture and cheeky hint of amaretto liquor make it a versatile dessert cream for a number of your favourites...
Walnut Brittle, an easy recipe for a storage jar treat!