Following on from the first episode of Great British Bake Off, we have been inspired to do a bake each week from one of the three rounds – Signature, Technical Challenge or a Show Stopper. Week 1 – Cake week, Today we have chosen to do a classic Madeira cake, because who doesn’t love madeira cake? Moist, buttery […]
21st May 2015 Cappuccino Macaroons @bakingamess macaroon, sweet buttercream, cappuccino, coffee, macaroon, meringue 0 Comments We love macaroons, we love eating them, we love looking at them, we love making them. So we made some. Cappuccino flavoured ones to be exact. For these coffee macaroons we used an Italian macaroon shell […]
Who doesn’t bloody-well-love a kinder bueno?! We certainly do, so we figured making our favourite chocolate bar into a cupcake was a foolproof idea. We took the 3 key components of a bueno (chocolate, the filling and wafer) and translated them into a chocolate cup cake with hazelnut frosting and wafer as decoration (to make […]
We are both HUGE fans of peanut butter – sit there eating it out the tub with spoon kind of love. Could live on peanut butter, could live for peanut butter etc etc. Well today we are using hazelnuts to make homemade hazelnut butter and seeing just how good homemade butters are, so here goes… […]
So the suns out today, which can only mean one thing… alcohol! Today we are baking our ‘homemade’ version of a childhood favourite – Jaffa cakes, but as we are now grown up, we thought it was time Jaffa cakes did too. Before beginning the blog we discussed the idea of making a series of posts of our […]
So this evening we fancied a quick and summery bake, so we made some light and crumbly lemon and earl grey shortbread biscuits. This is a quick and simple recipe for anyone to make when you need to whip something up at short notice (or because you want to eat some biscuits). To make things […]
To start our blog off, we thought we would do a bite size twist on a french classic. Something with everyone’s current favourite, salted caramel. Crisp choux pastry mini eclairs filled with a salted caramel cream, drizzled with chocolate ganache & salted caramel and a sprinkle of sea salt. Choux Pastry 2015-04-19 10:27:17 Yields 20 Choux […]