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 …

Mexican Coffee Buns

Having baked quite a few recipes from this book now and really enjoying it, I decided to buy a copy for a very good friend of mine who is also a very keen baker.  We regularly meet up to take …

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 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 187 – Mississippi Mud Pie

A chocolate recipe – not many of them left now, but I felt like baking another dessert and didn’t fancy another meringue or cheesecake, although there are still quite a few of those left to bake! Looking through the recipe …

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 105 – Coffee and Banana Vacherin

2nd August 2012 I had forgotten all about this recipe. It was only when I was flicking through the photos on my phone that I saw the photo and remembered. It all came about because I’d made courgette carbonara for …

Recipe 92 – Coffee & Walnut Traybake

28th June 2012 The football is nearly over, so after a long walk with the dog this evening  (I gave our lunchtime walk a miss, it was too hot for him) I decided I needed to bake, and I had …

Recipe 71 – Coffee Victoria Sandwich

Muffins baked and out of the oven, so the request from my daughter was for a ‘big cake’, not a tray bake, not biscuits a big cake! After suggesting a few recipes (I really wanted to bake the Lemon Swiss …

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 …