For a year or so, we’ve been in the grip of a baking obsession. Or at least Boy One has. It started – like so many of his fixations – with some adverts for a part work magazine. This one was about baking, and along with the recipes you got biscuit cutters, icing guns and […]
The problem with baking…
Pie a little lacking in banana so more Offee than anything else The baking issue right there Crispie cakes Is that there’s all this delicious stuff just asking to be scoffed. I know this seems blindingly obvious, but it’s true. The more I bake, the more I eat. Sigh.To start with the baking is all […]
Healthy eating takes the biscuit
This has to have been the longest January in the history of Januarys and it’s still not over yet. However, I’m still sticking to my healthy(ish) eating campaign for the Boys and I. Obviously the ideal foodstuff would be tasty, wholesome (ie not processed or full of chemicals) and not fattening. It would also provide slow release […]
Hanging out and learning about baking
Hot new baking tips I gathered this week: If you want strongly coloured icing, spend money on the best colours you can find. To make an iced cake easier. Freeze a Madeira sponge and ice it while half defrosted. If your cake won’t rise, maybe the baking power isn’t fresh. Too much baking powder can […]