Y is for Yummy 21st Birthday Cake

I know it’s a cop-out – the cake I was going to write about seemed so uninteresting after I found a wonderful recipe for a Chocolate Oreo Cake for my son’s 21st birthday. I just had to think of a …

J is for Japonaise

Sorry, sorry, sorry, it seems a long time ago since I last wrote up a recipe, my allotment has been taking up most of my time, but that is no excuse!!  So here it is, the next letter in the …

B is for Bourbon Biscuits

Time to bake the second letter of the alphabet and if I’m honest, this was my second choice, but I had two ingredients missing from the other recipe and even though I’d been into town a couple of times, I …

Sticky Toffee ‘Pudding’ Cake

This is delicious and I can guarantee you it will not be around for long if you make it! Ingredients Cake 200g date (stoned and chopped) 250ml weak black tea 100g light muscovado sugar 25g dark muscovado sugar 15g golden …

Spring Flower Cake

I had been invited to lunch at Le Manoir by a very good friend.  One of her friends was celebrating her birthday close to this day, so she asked me if I’d make a cake to take with us.  I’d …

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 …