Celebration Cake – Chocolate Cake with Fancy Butter Cream Icing in Yellow and Maroon Rosettes

  This cake received lots of appreciative “ooos and ahhs” from the people I gave it to (plus everyone who has seen it).  The cake itself is a basic and quick to make recipe out of a book I was given by my Grandmother, when I was a child. Although the recipe is standard, and […]

Ginger, Coconut, and Lemon Biscuits

    This recipe is one my Grandma used, and it started out as a peanut biscuit recipe. It is a really good basic biscuit recipe, so it gets adapted regularly with different ingredients and flavour combinations, and the following recipe combines complimentary flavours of ginger, coconut, and lemon. A friend who tried these biscuits, […]

Melting Moments with Passionfruit Icing

      Melting Moments are lovely old-fashioned biscuits, but to add an extra frisson, these ones have a subtle passionfruit flavoured filling – (which really means these biscuits can be called ‘Passionate Moments’!) The recipe for the biscuits given below is my Grandma’s recipe, just as she used to make them, but you can […]

White Sandwich Bread Loaf

      This is a great bread recipe that gives a lovely bake, colour, and close texture every time. The dough is great to work with, as it is not too sticky. The recipe is simple to construct, with most of the time spent in the proving and cooking. The addition of golden syrup […]

Rudolph-the-Red-Nosed-Reindeer Christmas Cake

  “The piece de resistance”   Rudolph is an original cake design planned and constructed by Mum and I. He stands 44cm tall and his body is made from a rich fruit Christmas cake, with chocolate antlers/ears, chocolate tail, and chocolate covered candy canes for the legs, chocolate eyes, and a marshmallow covered in red […]