Category: Recipes

Sour cream walnut cake

I’m such a fan of any type of nuts and think they work so well with chocolate (leading of subject). I came across this recipe of walnut cake and come to think about it, it’s just like coffee and walnut cake but without the coffee! however this recipe is different as it has sour…

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Lime, Coconut and Pistachio Loaf Cake

This cake reminded me of being on a tropical holiday with the flavours of coconut and lime. I haven’t made a cake containing lime in and it was quite refreshing.  I liked the recipe but I wanted to make a few extra changed. I added a little bit of pistachio to give it…

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Ferrero Rocher Cheesecake

I was craving cheesecake and ferroer roche chocolate, so you guessed it, I made a Ferroer Roche cheesecake! I scowered the internet in pursuit of finding my envisioned recipe but most of them weren’t all chocolate, they were a vanilla cheesecake with ferrero bits inside, noooooo my dream ferroer cheesecake wasn’t pictured like…

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Mini Baked Vanilla Cheesecake with Strawberry Sauce

We had quite a few punnets of strawberries left over and had guest coming round. I wasn’t sure what to make but thought of making mini baked vanilla cheesecake with a strawberry sauce topping. I have made a few cheesecakes in my time, I do find them to be a very indulgent and very…

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Easter inspired Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache

As it was Easter weekend we had family round and I already decided to made a Victoria sponge I thought I should make another cake for all those who wanted a different cake, although it’s still a basic cake I made a chocolate cake. I wanted to jazz the cake up for the…

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3 Layer Victoria Sponge Cake with Cream and Strawberries

I have family members who absolutely love Victoria Sponge out of any cakes the plain sponge is their ultimate favourite. This weekend was all about family time which is great.  I always get excited about making 3 layer cakes. I found them so sophisticated and look so elegant. The extra layer is also that…

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Mini Ricotta and Raspberry Cakes

I had some lovely raspberries that I wanted to use in some baking and came across this interesting recipe, I liked that it used ricotta cheese in it. In the end I wasn’t too sure about these cakes, they were OK but nothing special. I liked the little hit of raspberries but I…

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Tiramisu cake the better one!

My first try of Tiramisu cake although looked appealing wasn’t the greatest. The cake was dry and not moist as I thought it was going to be. I really wanted to get this right as I love Tiramisu. I then tried the saviour of baking Mrs Berry’s good old Mary’s recipe. And my god what…

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My Mother’s Day Strawberry and Cream Cake

My mother dearest loves a bit of strawberries and cream. I have seen strawberry cake recipes and thought this would be a perfect cake for Mother’s Day. The cake has actual pureed strawberries in it. Most of the recipes I found added food colouring to make it have that atheistically pleasing colour, but I…

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Tiramisu Cake

Recently I have become to really a fan of Tiramisu. I always get excited by recipes or anything to do with Tiramisu. I do really like coffee and it does go well with cream. Tiramisu is really indulgent, rich, creamy and yes, quite a fatty dessert but just so yummy. I think it’s always good to…

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