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 218 – Baked Alaska

This recipe brings back memories.  A dessert that was around  in the 1970s (I’m showing my age now!!).  I can remember my mum making this and thinking that it wasn’t possible to bring ice-cream out of the oven still frozen. …

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 216 – Apricot and Almond Meringue Gâteau

Wow, four recipes to go – well here’s another one to tick of the list… I intended on cooking this last weekend, but my son found the bag of apricots in the cupboard and managed to munch his way through …

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 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 212 – Rich Fruit Cake

It’s been a while since I’ve been on here, I’ll admit I’ve been doing quite a lot of baking from the Clandestine Cake Club Book and have really been enjoying it.  As I’ve said before I’m struggling with these last …

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 210 – Iced Gingerbread with Stem Ginger

The last of the gingerbread recipes, hurrah, if I wasn’t taking part in Sober October in aid of Macmillan Nurses, I think I may have opened a bottle of champagne to celebrate.  There are far too many gingerbread recipes in …