***Baking is at the heart of every home, from a warm stove to sharing a delicious dessert but although it is mostly about the taste, we all enjoy a beautiful creation. It is known and true that the best ingredients are necessary for a yummy cake but more than just »»
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Top Cake Decoration Mistakes — That You Must Be Aware Of
Baking .::. March 31st, 2010 –admin –***A well decorated cake can be a piece of art, but it is all too easy to make a mistake and ruin your masterpiece when you are under pressure to create something for a special celebration. You can avoid mistakes by being aware of the most common ones, and it »»
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Festival, Hitchin 2008
Baking .::. March 17th, 2010 –Alicia Bakfild –***Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, is the final day pre-Lent. It is the day for clearing your cupboards of eggs and butter (historically both forbidden, along with other foods such as meat, during Lent), and for shriving (confessing sins and asking forgiveness). Pancakes have for many »»
Banbury Cakes Revisited
Baking .::. March 16th, 2010 –Alicia Bakfild –***Whilst in Deddington, Oxfordshire, and already feeling inspired for my next post (I am obviously on a roll at the moment!), I came across a shop that sold genuine, 100% authentic Banbury Cakes. Banbury is just up/down the road from Deddington. Having previously made these, I bought myself »»
Shrewsbury Cakes from Shropshire
Baking .::. March 15th, 2010 –Alicia Bakfild –***Much of my information about Shrewsbury cakes/biscuits has come from ‘The Taste of Britain’, by Laura Mason and Catherine Brown. For anyone with an interest in British foods and ingredients I recommend this book. The contents cover the produce of each region – vegetables, fruit, livestock and dairy »»
Apple Gingerbread with Cinnamon Icing
Baking .::. March 14th, 2010 –Alicia Bakfild –***Well, I’m afraid it has been a little while since my last post. Of late it has been difficult to find a weekend with enough time free to research, write, bake and photograph, but I am aware that my opportunities for doing so may decrease further in the near »»
Honey Tea Bread
Baking .::. March 13th, 2010 –Alicia Bakfild –***Motherhood shortly pending, last Friday was my final day at work. I am lucky enough to be able to take twelve months’ maternity leave, and although currently the year stretches out ahead of me in a seemingly endless way, I expect that come the big arrival time will start »»
Holywake Bake Cake
Baking .::. March 12th, 2010 –Alicia Bakfild –***Ginger, long a popular flavouring in British cookery, was just one of the smaller things that we have the Romans to thank for first bringing to our shores. As an ingredient imported into the kingdom, for most people it was not an everyday taste. Thus it was a »»
Easter Treat
Baking .::. March 11th, 2010 –Alicia Bakfild –***For my first posting after my young man’s arrival, I am going to keep things fairly simple. I am also writing under a tut-tutting of disapproval from my husband, not due to neglection of the little ‘un, but because I have accepted a commercial freebie in the form »»
Bloggers For Positive Global Change
Baking .::. March 10th, 2010 –Alicia Bakfild –***
I have been nominated by Amanada of Figs Olives Wine for a Bloggers for Positive Global Change award. Wow! – what a honour to be so highly rated. Thank-you Amanda for the vote.
The award was created by Climate of Our Future, a site that aims to be »»
Christmas Cake (an escape to warmer climes)
Baking, Holiday recipes .::. March 9th, 2010 –Alicia Bakfild –***This year I wanted to bake a Christmas cake – my first. I have made Christmas puddings and mince pies aplenty, but despite having polished off many a slice of Christmas cake I have never created my own. I love Christmas cake, love fruit cakes dense with fruit, »»
Coffee Cake is a Tasty Treat with a Rich History
Baking, interesting advices .::. March 9th, 2010 –admin –***
As you are getting your morning caffeine fix, have you ever wondered how coffee cake came to be? After all, it often doesn’t have coffee in it. It tastes just fine without java. Somebody had to come up with it, didn’t they?
Like most foods, coffee cake is an item that »»
Happy Birthday to Ellis…
Baking, Holiday recipes .::. March 8th, 2010 –Alicia Bakfild –***Our little boy turned one on Monday, and we held a family birthday tea the day before. Apart from the birthday boy himself, my attention over the previous week had been on ‘the cake’. Having children is an excuse to bake fantastical celebration cakes and play with day-glo »»
Shetland Bride’s Bonn/Bun or Bridal Cake
Baking .::. March 7th, 2010 –Alicia Bakfild –***Shetland bride’s bonn/bun or bridal cake was traditionally baked by the mother of the bride. It was broken over the bride’s head as she entered the marital home after the wedding ceremony and was intended to bless the marriage with prosperity and fertility. This breaking of cake was »»
Scottish Shortbread
Baking .::. March 6th, 2010 –Alicia Bakfild –***Shortbread is a biscuit ‘shortened’ by the prodigious use of glorious butter. The texture of the biscuit is crisp and snappable- hence ‘short’. The term ‘bread’ has been used interchangeably with ‘cake’ for many centuries (cakes, as we now know them, derive from sweetened, yeast-risen breads), and shortbread »»