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Jumbo jaffa cake
Baking birthday cakes for my nephews always has me trying out random things and this time it was baking a sponge in a frying pan/skillet.It's getting harder and harder to think of fun or interesting...
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Another carrot cake
It's birthday season at the moment which means a constant layer of icing sugar dust in my kitchen. Yay?For last week's birthday I tried another new-to-me carrot cake recipe as there's no point in...
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Carrot and orange cake
Surprisingly, I'm not returning with another variation of mini tarts (although I still really want to bake a lemon curd version) but with a carrot cake I baked for the Man's birthday last week.Last...
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Rhubarb and raspberry tarts
As my pineapple tarts were such a raging success with my in-laws last month I couldn't resist making them again with some tweaks. I love a versatile recipe and this bake offers so many flavour...
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Pineapple tarts
My father in law loves a pineapple tart so I thought it would be fun to make some for his birthday this year.The recipe I used was from Baking With Granny. (As a side note, I had no idea pineapple...
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Cheese biscuits and chutney
I am a shadow of my former self. Never did I ever think I'd become the type of person to say "perhaps it would make a nice change to bake some savoury treats for Christmas." *Apparently, this is me...
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A car, tacos and a hummingbird
I'm back with this year's birthday cake offerings for the nephews: a car for the 17 year old learner driver, jumbo sized tacos for the food-obsessed middle nephew and a fruity hummingbird cake for the...
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Jamana bread
Homemade jam + rotting bananas = jammy banana bread. Or as I've decided to call it, jamana bread.It's nothing ground breaking, just a basic banana bread recipe with a few dollops of strawberry jam...
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Carrot and ginger layer cake
I let Man pick a cake from my recipe books for his birthday last week and he chose the carrot and ginger cake from Hummingbird Bakery's "Cake days" book.Although I have baked many recipes from this...
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Apricot and orange marmalade cake
Two weekends ago I made my first batch of marmalade. And what do you do once you've made a big batch of jam or marmalade? Use it in a cake, of course!The resulting marmalade cake (with a handful of...
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Apple, cranberry and cinnamon cake
Whenever I spot fresh cranberries for sale in the run up to Christmas I excitably buy a pack to make this cake and/or these muffins.However whenever I look for the recipe in my recipe file I remember I...
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Banana and rhubarb streuselcake
Yes, I know, it's another rhubarb cake, but damn this is a good one!It's another recipe from the "Rhubarbaria" I received last Christmas from the Man. I had never come across the pairing of rhubarb and...
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Rhubarb and custard kisses
Years ago (here, actually) I made delicious custard biscuits which incorporated custard powder into the dough. The other week in one of my baking related ponderings I wondered if I could substitute the...
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Orange, rhubarb and almond cake
This cake is the lovechild of two BBC Good Food recipes: Berry Bakewell cake and Stewed Rhubarb. I've made the Bakewell (almond) cake countless times over the years with various berries and...
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Yet another rugby cake
Youngest nephew also requested a rugby themed birthday cake this year. My nerves still felt frazzled after the gravity defying rugby ball cake I created for his brother in March so I went down an...
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rhubarb gingerbread pudding
"And so it begins...", said King Théoden (R.I.P. Bernard Hill.)Also myself upon looking at my garden. Rhubarb season has begun and the "rhubarb empire" is growing larger with each passing...
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hummingbird cake with orange cream cheese icing
I remember "semi-naked" cakes being all the rage online about 10 years ago and the term felt too "hipster" for my liking. I'm a contrary sod so needless to say I did not jump on the bandwagon. Until...
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lemon and blueberry layer cake
Man turned 40 a few weeks ago so a grand cake was required. Like myself he is a lemon cake fan and after running ideas past him we decided on a lemon and blueberry cake sandwiched with with lemon curd...
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rugby ball birthday cake
I'm back with the next installment of "weird things I end up making as cakes for my nephews' birthdays." Last year for middle nephew it was rolling individual grains of rice from fondant for a curry...
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lemon and blackcurrant cake
I've had the lemon and blackcurrant cake from the Clandestine Cake Club book bookmarked since it came out 10 years ago but have always been unable to make it as I couldn't get my hands on any...
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