I love Chocolate Cake, but I am not always in the mood to bake a whole cake just to have the one piece that I want. I don’t want to waste the cake, so I either end up eating most of it in one day (eek!) or giving it away to friends and family (I’m […]
We have seen loads of recipes for Chocolate Stout Cake on the Internet and we have tried many too. So to Celebrate International Chocolate Cake day, we thought we would share our Stout Cake Recipe with you. We Found the base of this recipe a few months ago and since then have tweaked it to […]
Banana bread has always been one of my favourites. It brings back memories of helping my gran bake. For a long time, I thought I could use any banana bread recipe and get a similar result to that of my grans. I was wrong…. very very very wrong. I tried recipes from the internet, famous […]
Weekends are the time for awesome breakfasts. One of our favourites is scones. We have so many different variations, but this one happened last weekend when we ran out of milk. This is definitely one of our new favourite recipes Ingredients: 100ml Cream 100ml Yougurt 2 Tbsp Milk 1 Egg 2 Tbsp Castor Sugar 2 […]
Around this time of the year, you always find hot cross buns and carrot cake in stores and at your friends tea parties. One of our favourites to bake and eat is Carrot Cake. We have tried many recipes over the years, but we always come back to this one. Ingredients: 3 eggs 375ml sugar […]
It’s St Patrick’s Day. So to celebrate, we made a Guinness Cake. Not just any Guinness cake, but Nigella Lawson’s Guinness Cake. This is currently the Cook along cake on her website. The Cook Along is a fun competition where you cook a Nigella recipe, upload a picture on her website and then stand a […]
Cakes are fun to bake. But sometimes they aren’t that simple to make. Well this cake is the opposite.It is quick and simple to make. This is a South African Summer Bake that we love – Granadilla Cake. Granadilla Cake Ingredients 1 and 1/2 cups of self-rising flour 3/4 cup Sugar 1/3 cup Oil 1/2 cup […]
Some days we just need chocolate with some more chocolate melted on top and some chocolate on the side. It was on one of these days we decided to bake decadent chocolate brownies. These brownies are good on their own but then we decided to add some more chocolate in the form of Twix. For these […]
Recently, I was asked to bake a cake for a cake sale at work to raise money for a children’s home that we support. Immediately I thought of my red velvet cupcakes. They are really tasty and never last long in our house. I have made these wonderful treats for work colleagues and there are […]