Recipe 219 – Chocolatines

Well, this is it, the last recipe in the book.  I can’t believe that I’ve actually baked a whole book of recipes!  If I’m honest, I never thought I’d keep going, I thought I’d give up after a couple of …

Recipe 213 – Gâteau Saint Honoré

Another one to tick of the ‘Special Cakes’.  I knew from the start that this was going to be a long afternoon of baking, as this recipe takes up 3 pages in the book and, much to my disappointment, didn’t include …

Recipe 211 – Mokatines

Right, it’s about time I baked a recipe from the ‘Special Cakes’ section of the book.  When I began this quest I said to myself that I wouldn’t leave the difficult looking recipes to the end and looking back through …

Recipe 191 – Doboz Torte

This is one of the recipes from the ‘Special’ section of The Bible and I admit that usually I quickly skip over this section.  However, now I’m getting near to the end of the book, I can’t keep skipping over …

Recipe 164 – Sachertorte

Yes, I’ve finally gone and plucked up the courage to bake the dreaded Sachertorte that they had to bake in one of the Great British Bake Off episodes.  Ever since watching it I’ve dreaded baking it, but now I’ve done …

Recipe 161 – Swiss Wild Strawberry and Walnut Cake

It was time to bake from the ‘Special Cakes’ section of the book.  This, I feel is where the most difficult cakes are.  As I need to narrow the choice down to three in each of the remaining sections, I …

Recipe 155 – Lemon Griestorte

I’m trying to work my way through some of the ‘Sections’ in the book so that I have the same amount remaining from each category.  My theory is I will then bake one from each category until I finally come …

Recipe 140 – Gâteau Moka aux Amandes

20th January 2013 I’m terrible at remembering to write-up my blogs or perhaps it’s the fact I need to sit down and find the time. I baked this gâteau last Sunday and over-ran my time apparently in the kitchen according to …

Recipe 90 – Wimbledon Cake

24th June 2012Well having picked nearly 2.5kg of strawberries from the allotment this morning and with Wimbledon starting tomorrow, there really was only one cake I could bake today from ‘The Bible’ – the Wimbledon Cake.I had every intention of …

Recipe 60 – Nusskuchen

18th April 2012 Right, it was time for me to get back in the kitchen and baking again.  It had been over a week since I had last baked anything from the Bible and I was beginning to get withdrawal …