Last nights ‘theme’ for the Edinburgh Bakers was a repeat of one from last year – Towers of Terrific Tray bakes. Our hosts for the evening where the lovely Ingrid and Stuart from Bon Papilion (you’ve got to try Stuart’s epic scones and the belly busting bacon rolls!) Here are some of the magnificent tray…
Category: Baking
Mary Berry's Coffee and Walnut Cake
A couple of weekends ago the theme for the Sunday Baking Club was Retro Bakes. The easy option would have been a Victoria Sponge, however I went for the second easiest option – Coffee and Walnut Cake! A favourite of my mums and mine when I was growing up. I chose this recipe from Mary…
Pancakes!
I love pancakes, and we often make them at the weekends as part of a lazy breakfast. So, given today is officially Pancake day it would seem unsporting not to indulge! I had a wonderful stack of pancakes during the summer in Cornwall, and I decided to recreate them this morning. I used the following…
Orange and Almond Tea Cakes
Or an adaption of Lily Vanilli’s Pink Grapefruit, Almond and Brown Sugar Tea Cakes, as it really should be! I recently bought Lily Vanilli’s Sweet Tooth as a post Christmas gift to myself! I was tempted by the colourful, pretty cover as well the reviews I’ve read of it and having seen the bakery for…
Rainbow Ruffle Cake
The cake I went for for the Edinburgh Cake Ladies East Meets West event was a Rainbow Ruffle Cake, which was essentially the same cake as I did for Dad’s 80th, but with only 5 layers and not 6, and also using pastel colours I had spotted this cake ages ago on Pinterest, and…
Easts meets West
Yesterday afternoon East met face to face with the West, in what was to be later referred to as a Cake Convention of the Edinburgh Cake Ladies and Glasgow Bakers. The theme this time was showstoppers, and as you can see from the tasty photos below, we weren’t disappointed! This amazing cake by Kirsteen Oliver…
Manly Mo Cupcakes
The 1st December was the day I had been waiting for throughout November – the grand shave off day of Stuart’s moustache! Stuart and a team from his work spent the last month cultivating interesting ‘taches and raising money for Movember. In total they have raised just shy of £2500 – which is a good…
Rainbow Cake
It was my Dad’s 80th Birthday last week and what better way to shock him than to turn up unannounced on his doorstep with a brightly coloured rainbow cake in my hand! Unsurprisingly he was not put off by this brightly coloured mass – it was at the end of the day still cake (though…
Going Underground
Last Wednesday night the Edinburgh Cake Ladies took cake underground in aid of cake-eating, all things spooky and most importantly the great local charity Its Good to Give. The Real Mary Kings Close kindly let us host the event in the close for this ghostly evening, and it was not an event to miss. I…
Spanish Chocolate Cake
Its Chocolate Week, so I thought it was apt to make a chocolate cake. This one I found in the June issue of Sainsbury’s Magazine. I am not really sure what makes it Spanish – maybe the orange? olive oil? or even the ground almonds? Nonetheless its very tasty and easy to make! Ingredients 125g…
Queen of Everything 