Tunis Cake

I’m sure a lot of you will have seen The Great British Bake Off Christmas Special in which Mary bakes this cake.  Not being too keen on fruit cake (unless it’s one that is more cake than fruit, if you …

Recipe 217 – American Chocolate Wedding Cake

If I’m honest with you, when I first started baking from this book, I always thought this recipe would be the last one I would bake, and if I’d pulled my finger out over the past few months, it probably …

Recipe 215 – Victorian Christmas Cake

The last of the Christmas cakes and there’s a picture too with this recipe in the book!  This is, as the heading say,s a traditional ‘Victorian Christmas Cake’ the type that doesn’t have any icing on top, but instead is …

Recipe 214 – New Year Tipsy Cake

Yes, I know it’s not the New Year, well not for around 6 weeks (where has this year gone?), but Mary does say that this could be made at another time of the year and I have every intention of …

Recipe 144 – Divine Chocolate Birthday Cake

This is the first recipe in the Section Celebration Cakes in Mary Berry’s Baking Bible and I must admit the first line sold it to me … “This is a very close-textured ‘fudgy’ cake that needs no filling”.  Fudgy did …

Recipe 133 – Bûche de Noël

24th December 2012 Having been invited to my brother-in-law’s house for Christmas Day, it’s tradition that I take along a couple of desserts.  The first dessert always requested is my trifle – made with maltesers.  This had already been made …

Recipe 132 – Tiny Fruit Cakes

19th December 2012 I had already made a few things to give away as presents this Christmas – sloe gin, redcurrant cordial and some pear & cranberry sauce, but decided a good present to go with the other things I …

Recipe 121 – Classic Rich Christmas Cake

19th October 2012 Yes, it’s coming up to that time of the year again!  I knew there were quite a few Christmas Cake recipes in Mary’s Bible, it was only the beginning of December last year when I started the …

Recipe 63 – Sponge Christening Cake

21st April 2012 Decisions, decisions – it’s was my mum’s birthday the next day and I had been pondering all week on what cake I should make her.  A lot of people who follow me on Twitter or Facebook suggested …

Recipe 57 – Easter Simnel Cake

5th April 2012   The second of the three Easter recipes!  Looking through Mary’s Bible there are quite a few recipes that are seasonal – look out for the Wimbledon Cake when Wimbledon’s on!!   I’ve never actually made a …