Cooking with ginger always makes me think of Christmas – must be something to do with festive gingerbread men – so this week, we stuck with the seasonal theme and made a banana and ginger cake. Ingredients 125g butter 150g golden syrup 100g light muscovado sugar 2 bananas 2…
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The children wanted to do some baking this weekend, and with it *almost* being December, what better thing to make than Christmas cookies? Ingredients 175g butter 75g caster sugar 275g plain flour Writing icing to decorate Method Cut the butter into small pieces, then add to a bowl with the…
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I was recently asked to take part in the OxoTot UK blogger baking challenge – to celebrate the delicious seasonal produce of autumn.To me, autumn is about the apples. My parents have an apple tree in their garden, and I remember picking all the apples at this time of year, and making…
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A little while ago, we were sent a lovely package from Tefal: This is the Jamie Oliver carbon steel set, containing a muffin tin, a loaf tin, a square baking/roasting tin and a round baking tin. Now, as readers of my blog will know, we love to bake (especially cakes)…
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