Showing posts from September, 2016

Apple Crumble Loaf Cake

A Bramley Apple Crumble Loaf Cake with a sweet Custard Buttercream Icing. A classic British pudding in cake form! Oh my, this was one amazing cake! The apple crumble loaf cake is made using the rubbing in method, the same method that you would use to make your usual crumble topping, and it keeps the cake lovely and moist.


Raspberry Fool with belVita Honey and Nut Crunch

I eat breakfast at my desk a couple of mornings a week when I go swimming before work. It means leaving home at 6am very bleary eyed, so I'm rarely organised enough to bring a bowl, cereal and milk with me. Instead, I keep a handy stash of belVita Breakfast Biscuits, some dried fruit and packets of seeds in my desk drawer to keep me going until lunch. belVita Breakfast Biscuits are made with at least 5 wholegrains and offer a great source of fibre and vitamin B6 as well as magnesium and iron. Being familiar with the brand I was happy to accept their challenge of developing a recipe using the belVita Honey and Nut Breakfast Biscuits.....and this Raspberry Fool with a Honey and Nut Crunch was what I came up with. I have to say it 's just a little bit yummy. The raspberry fool with a crunchy honey and nut topping (courtesy of crushed belVita biscuits) makes a lovely lazy weekend breakfast, or you could even use it as a fresh and fruity dessert. I love fruity fools made w


Creamy Tortellini Soup

A creamy tortellini soup made with spinach and ricotta tortellini, fresh spinach leaves, peas and carrots in a creamy cheesy soup. Hearty and delicious!


Dreamy Vanilla Cupcakes with a Buttercream Frosting

Debenhams kindly asked me to try out some products from their baking range recently. I said yes of course and a lovely big parcel arrived last weekend full of baking goodies including numerous icing tools, palette knives, a pie bird (something I’ve always wanted and a blackberry and apple pie is definitely on the list to make this weekend!), a rather cool retro looking flour sifter, a sugar shaker, lots of pretty cupcake cases and some icing bags with different size nozzles. The first recipe I made, trialling some of the products, were these Dreamy Vanilla Cupcakes with a super smooth buttercream frosting. I was really keen to try out this icing bag and nozzle kit and was impressed with how well the icing went on! They didn’t look half bad given I’ve never been that good at icing cakes. I usually leave cake decoration to my Mother in Law who is a chef and cake decorator extraordinaire…but I’m very tempted to have a go at some more intricate icing designs using some of the icing tool


The Best Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

To celebrate the start of the new series of Great British Bake-Off, Aldi  contacted me to see if I'd like to take part in their 'Aldi's Amazing Bakes' challenge. The aim of the challenge was to rustle up a tasty baked treat on a budget using Aldi ingredients. They kindly sent me some Aldi vouchers and I headed off to their brand new store in Bideford, just a few minutes away from my office (no more 40 mile round trips to Liskeard anymore!!), to see what I could find for inspiration. I decided to keep things simple and make some super easy chewy choc chip cookies. Perfect for after school snacks now the kids are back at school! You could vary the recipe quite easily by using raisins instead of choc chips, or maybe even some chopped nuts. This is a great base recipe for adding your own little twist. Enjoy!   CHEWY CHOC CHIP COOKIES Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Baking Yield: 30 Author: Beth Sachs Print Recipe Pin it With Image Without Image Ch