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Category: Baking

  • Chocolate Hot Cross Muffins

    My Easter themed baking for the year – a lovely fruity chocolate muffin, with a cross on the top. I used this recipe almost exactly, although I used a plain stiff white icing to form the crosses (just icing sugar and water) rather than white chocolate. My attempt at melting the chocolate was a terrible…

  • Carrot Cake Muffins

    I think these are the loveliest carrot muffins I’ve ever made – soft, moist, and delicious with or without the icing. I altered a recipe in Penguin’s Muffin Bible, and was extremely pleased with the results. ingredients: 1 3/4 cups plain flour 2/3 cup brown sugar 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2…

  • Blueberry Muffins

    At a loss as to what I felt like for breakfast one Sunday morning, I whipped up these blueberry muffins from a new faithful book, The Muffin Bible published by Penguin. Sweet, light and with deliciously soft spots of blueberry dotted through them, they were the perfect start to the day. A very speedy recipe.…

  • Deformed Severed Finger Cookies

    Well, these were a bit of a failure. If you take a look at Domestic Goddess (where I found the recipe), you’ll see what I was aiming for. Unfortunately, I decided not to bother with all that waiting around for butter to soften, and used a soft butter spread instead. Whoops. I think this was…

  • Vampire Cupcakes

    I saw these cupcakes at Baking Bites, and couldn’t resist them – the fabulous bleeding vampire bites in the soft white icing. They were rather fiddly (as you might guess from the long list of instructions), especially making a big batch, and the icing takes quite some time. Admittedly, it’s all time spent standing still…

  • Wallflower Loaf

    When looking around the internet for some low-fat baking recipes, I was struck by this delicious sounding loaf from A Finger in Every Pie. Constructed almost entirely from fruit and nuts, this very healthy loaf is delicious warm from the oven, the sticky dates melting in your mouth. I won’t repeat the recipe, as I…

  • Honey & Raspberry Muffins

    These pleasantly light muffins were made for a brunch, and were an excellent morning muffin – not too sweet, not too rich. I used Manuka honey in these, which is very strong, but you need a nice strong tasting honey for the taste to come out in the finished product. An incredibly simple recipe, this…

  • Classic Cheese Souffle

    Prior to baking this, I had actually never made or even eaten a souffle before, but for some reason I had written it down as one of the 25 things I wanted to do before I turned 25. I bought the souffle dish some time ago, in preparation for fulfilling this goal, but then it…

  • Chocolate Cookies with Pine Nuts

    This recipe is from Lucullian Delights, and although I had a little trouble with the quantities of ingredients, it’s a lovely rich chocolate biscuit, with surprisingly little work involved. I thought pine nuts were an unusual nut to use in a sweet biscuit, but they work very well. I’d recommend doubling the recipe amount here,…

  • Lime Sugar Cookies

    This lovely recipe is from SDD – The Food Blog, and a very lovely buttery limey concoction it is – a very summery cookie, and perfect for this time of year. My cookies were even more buttery than the recipe intends, as I accidently used 250 grams instead of 210. I used bottled lime juice,…