I have been craving cake for days - I am female and cake cravings are entirely normal. When I got home from work I decided that I would have to do something about it and recalled a cake that Auntie Ganching had made with chocolate and marmalade - Store Cupboard Chocolate-Orange Cake. The [...]
Chocolate Whiskey Cake
Originally uploaded by ZMB.
Recipe provided by Dave’s mum.
Grease a 18cm springform tin.
Ingredients
2 eggs
2 dsp caster sugar
225g unsalted butter
200g dark chocolate
2 tbsp whiskey
225 g crushed digestive biscuits
55g chopped nuts
Method
Beat eggs and sugar until thick and creamy. Gradually add melted butter and chocolate beating all the time.
Fold in whiskey, biscuits and nuts. Pour [...]
I was overcome with the urge to eat something sweet the other night, so I made some cookies. My customisation was to use almonds, mexican drinking chocolate tablets and orange zest. They were very yummy, but the mexican chocolate was a little bit gritty.
From the Guardian 20 January 2007
This recipe allows you to [...]
I made the scones yesterday, with a few additions. I split the recipe as given below in half. To one half I omitted the sugar and added 50g/2oz cheese (this made for a very cheesy scone so you could add less). The other half I added half an apple, diced, and 1 [...]
One of the few edible items in the canteen at work are the scones they make. I have had part of the recipe scribbled on a post it note for a few years. I realised when I was making them that the recipe is incomplete (perhaps the catering staff are keeping the recipe [...]
Oat Shortbread
Originally uploaded by ZMB.
Recipe from the side of my packet of Speedicook Porridge.
Ingredients
250g/80z butter
125g/4oz caster sugar
125g/4oz plain flour
325g/11oz Speedicook porridge oats
Pinch of baking soda
Method
Cream the butter and sugar well. Add flour and baking soda and mix, then add Speedicook. Roll out thinly, cut into rounds and bake in oven at 180C/350F or Gas Mark [...]
