Category: Bread & baking
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Chocolate & almond fudge cake
This is a chocolate & almond fudge cake that Debs made from Dan Lepard’s fantastic new book Short & Sweet for the Short and Tweet Challenge. It’s beautifully light and moist and yet richly chocolatey. A sophisticated tasting cake that would be an ideal dinner party stunner. It’s also great as a treat for a…
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Orange & Cinnamon Swirl Brioche Recipe – Carla’s Treat
The smell of this bread when making, baking and eating is heady. It’s redolent of warm summer evenings in Morocco with spicy orange & sweet cinnamon. You’ll be hard pushed to leave it once it’s out of the oven for the crumb to mature. I think it must be mildly addictive. I came by the…
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Breakfast muesli bar, oaty, chocolately, fruity, seedy, spicy
When my son was a third of the size he is now, I wanted to be able to feed him a healthy snack bar. Most of the commercially available ones were stuffed full of sugar and/or additives. So I decided to invent my own. My son is 16 now and much bigger and the recipe…
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Courgette & feta yoghurt pastry boregi with sunflower seeds & coriander
These courgette & feta boregi are so moreish. The stuffing is really fresh tasting, with the surprising crunch of the sunflower seeds. The pastry is crisp and deliciously rich. It’s a great way of using the courgette glut from this time of the year. It’s also liked by people who profess not to like courgettes!…
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Oatmeal Soda Bread
I had a request for a recipe this morning from Craig at WeGrowOurOwn and Alys Fowler for the recipe for my breakfast bread. It’s a really tasty, simple and quick oatmeal soda bread. The principle of soda bread is that the raising agent is bicarbonate of soda (hence the ‘soda’ in the name) which is…
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Sourdough breakfast bread with spelt, fruit , nuts and spices
This is a wonderfully moist, tasty and nutritious start for your day full of fruit, nuts & spices. It’s also a great mid-afternoon snack for when your energy levels are dipping. First thing to say is that the original idea was not mine. This recipe is a sourdough adaptation of Ed & Marieke’s yeasted muesli…
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Sourdough bread with rye and linseed
I’m lucky to have a number of truly inspirational people in my ‘internet family’. This bread happened due to the inspiration of two people: the talented & generous Joanna at Zeb Bakes & baking guru & good guy, Dan Lepard. Joanna posted some beautiful pictures of a flax (linseed) & rye loaf. As you’ll see…
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Chocolate Muffins with marzipan & spices – ‘Hidden Hearts’
This recipe was inspired by my Twitter friend and genius chocolate baking blogger Choclette. Each month Choclette and baking friend Chele host We Should Cocoa – a chocolate challenge. The Challenge is to make something with chococlate and a special ingredient. For April 2011 the special ingredient was marzipan. I wanted to make a muffin…