Everyone stay calm, but it’s finally pancake day! Is it just us or does shrove Tuesday appear on the horizon at the beginning of the year bringing the hope of spring and Easter chocolate?! This year for this momentous occasion we decided to take our Fluffy American Pancake recipe to a new level and made […]
A great layer cake for the festive period with christmassy flavours! We made this as an alternative to a traditional christmas cake. Now we’ve already established that we, here at Baking a Mess, don’t like christmas cake, we’ve got nothing against it.. just isn’t our thing. So last year we made an orange and cinnamon […]
Tis the season… and who doesn’t love a mince pie? This year we decided to do something a little different to the traditional pastry and mincemeat and turned it into a gooey iced bun. We already posted a mince pie recipe last year with our own homemade mincemeat with added cranberries for extra flavour. Making […]
It’s no secret we’re big fans of millionaires shortbread, so we couldn’t let christmas slip by without doing a festive take on the traybake! We’ve done them before (quite a few times before), millionaires shortbread is one of our favourite bakes. We’ve had creme egg, we’ve had oreo, we’ve had s’mores, we’ve had peanut butter, […]
A bundt cake just says christmas to us, so what can be more festive than a mulled wine bundt cake?! Any keen readers of the blog may notice this cake looks pretty similar to a bundt cake we did as part of our GBBO 2016 series, this yummy pink grapefruit drizzle. It was entirely unintentional, […]
Grapefruit is one of our favourite flavours to work with, it’s sweet, sour and delicious. We’ve made lemon curd, passionfruit curd and even lime curd in the past but grapefruit curd is something we have been wanting to try and isn’t something you come across that often. This recipe was used to make our Pomegranate, […]
So here it is, the last of our Great British Bake Off bakes! We love working with meringue so jumped at the chance to create this 4 layered fruity pavlova. As soon as we saw the signature challenge of the final we knew it was something we wanted to take on. And then the technical […]
This flavour combination is a bit summery for the beginning of october, but we wanted to go for a fruity flavour rather than something chocolate based. Regardless of the time of year, this peach, raspberry and elderflower roulade is a quick and delicious dessert! Okay, first things first, can we just call this what it […]
In our humble opinion, the filling of these is so divine it should be worshipped… But when you’re working with the flavour combination of pistachio and salted caramel it’s obviously going to taste delicious. These are probably our all time favourite macarons (not that we like to play favourites…) You literally can’t go wrong with […]
This week was pastry week, one of our faves. We were torn between a filo creation and the bakewell tart. But really, making our own filo pastry seemed like a lot of hard work, with ideas in mind we will probably return to that in the future and stick to the bakewell for now. We […]
Guess who’s back… back again… shortbread’s back, tell a friend. Yes we’re at it again with the millionaire’s shortbread and this time we added peanut butter (aka food of the gods). Yes we’re obsessed with millionaire’s shortbread, this is a well established fact by now. But where can you go wrong with shortbread, caramel and […]
We may have been talking about this non stop for the past week, but in case anyone’s missed it… the bake off is back! And along with it, comes our weekly bakes showcasing our take on the show’s challenges. The first week was cake week so here’s our signature drizzle cake, and guys… this one’s […]
We love nothing more than creating different and unique versions of classic british sweet treats, so when mentally preparing for the start of GBBO which is, of course, kicking off with cake week, we came up with these adorable victoria sponge macarons!! To capture the idea of the victoria sponge in a macaron, we treated the shells […]
We’ve been swept up along with rest of the world in olympic madness, and of course we had to do some Rio themed baking! So we whipped up this batch of mango coconut and lime cupcakes! We knew we wanted something with a tropical flavour but couldn’t settle on just one or two flavours, so […]
We’re making this cake for someone’s birthday, but the fruity flavours make it perfect for any summery celebration! (we really can find any celebratory excuse for cake, such as “it’s a wednesday”). When tasked with making a cake for someone who “isn’t much of a chocolate person” (we still question whether people that say this […]
We love macarons (who doesn’t?!) so when we decided to whip up a batch today we thought we’d go for a summer appropriate fruit flavour! That right there is macaron porn. We feel that blueberries are pretty underrated as a fruit, well maybe more underused than underrated. We wish far more recipes revolved around these […]
We were going to make a classic madeleine today… but we had no lemons. So we were forced to make something a little more exciting, so opted for this delicious but delicate flavour combination. We went for a combination of earl grey tea and freshly picked lavender from the garden, we think these flavours work […]
Yes, we shall be accepting thank you gifts. So this was a slighty out of the box idea we had, stemming from the fact Hollie had an ice cream maker attachment for the kitchen aid and we LOVE doughnuts. But it worked. Like, it reeeally worked. So we have been waiting for about a year […]
To add to our millionaires shortbread collection, we thought we would continue the trend after the creme egg & oreo, with a s’mores inspired creation! Basically what happened was, we were walking around Sainsbury’s buying a few basic ingredients when we stumbled across MASSIVE marshmallows in the American section. Obviously we thought of s’mores and […]
Some of you may have seen the magical ‘Oreo Churros’ flying around the internet, a chocolate churro with that creamy Oreo filling piped through the middle… But we have honestly not seen them anywhere! Maybe they’re a myth? Or a sick joke someone has invented to play with the Oreo lovers mind. Or maybe, more […]
YAY! For the past couple of weeks we have been blessed with that little bit of sun that we have all been waiting for. And considering about 50% of the posts on this site have been fueled by prosecco, it was about time we included it in a recipe… Finally we can sit outside and maybe […]
Behold! The Oreo Millionaires Shortbread, you saw it here first… And it’s quite possibly the greatest invention ever. We aren’t saying we invented it, it may have been done before (we haven’t seen it), but either way it is incredible! And whoever likes oreos and caramel should make it… So thats everyone right? The base […]
So I’m sure you can guess that we are going through an Easter theme with our baking at the moment, because Easter is coming up and why not celebrate with baking and having fun. So this week we had a go at the classic Hot Cross Bun We wanted to make our Hot Cross Buns […]
So today we wanted to do some baking, because we were bored and what else is there to do? Something quick, something good – brownies? But not just ordinary brownies, how about brownies and blondies rippled together? Lets just stick in some caramel to the mix too! So we have used our recipe for Raspberry Blondies plus […]
