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Baking
Five Star Butter cake
This is a recipe for a very versatile cake and is perfect for any occasion. You can alter the flavour with vanilla, chocolate, lemon or orange. You could even add the mixture over stewed apples to make an apple cake!
Iced Ginger Cake
This is one of those cakes where one bit is never enough and going by how quickly it keeps disappearing in my house, everyone else is the same! Along with Caramel Shortcake, this is one of my all time favourites and I will keep making it for years to come. I hope you enjoy it as much as me!
Peach Upside-Down Cake
A recipe for peach upside-down cake, made with tinned peaches and a French-Yoghurt cake base.
Unlike other upside-down cake recipes this is more moist and pudding like, not dry and crumbly. Delicious!
Lily’s Fairtrade Devil’s Food Ale Cakes
Lily’s Fairtrade Devil’s Food Ale Cakes are delicious and unusual cupcakes, created especially for the Fairtrade fortnight by cupcake queen Lily Vanilli.
They’re so tasty that you’ll want to bake them all year round, but I think they taste even better during Fairtrade Fortnight!
Lily’s Fairtrade Bacon and Banana Cakes
These bacon and banana cakes are so tasty that you’ll want to bake them all year round, but I think they taste even better during Fairtrade Fortnight!
Choosing Fairtrade over regular versions makes a massive difference to the lives of developing world farmers and their families!
Kick back with cake this weekend
The weekend is a time to relax and recuperate from a hectic week at work. If you’re anything like me then it’s also a perfect opportunity to do some serious home cooking.
I’ve already shared our top egg recipes in “Enjoy eating eggs this weekend”. This week I’d like to share our most brilliant cake recipes!
Lime Cheesecake
Probably my favourite pud. This is the sort of dessert that can have all the ingredients adjusted to suit your own palate. I’m a right one for just chucking ingredients in various amounts until I think will taste nice. Most of the time it works and if it doesn’t , its really funny and I know what to change next time…. Happy Experimenting!
Caramel shortcake
Caramel shortcake is made up of a crumbly shortcake base, topped with caramel and then chocolate. Can there be anything better than that? It’s so easy to make my 5 and 7 year old daughters could do it!
Rocky Horror Show Rainbow Cupcakes
This is a recipe for lemon flavoured cupcakes with crazy rainbow colours – in true Rocky Horror Show style! You could make them whatever flavour you lik. You could even match colours and flavours. I concede though, that a six-flavour cupcake really would be a party in the mouth!
Burnt honey and apricot flapjack
This recipe is perfect for lazy Sunday afternoons and demands you enjoy it with a cup of tea – I could probably say that for a lot of things though!
Using burnt honey instead of the usual golden syrup really adds to the flavour of the flapjack and turns them into something a bit special. It’s hard to explain, so you’ll just have to try this recipe!
