(First post on my new computer, finding new programs and functionalities as I go… let’s hope for the best…) We had friends to dinner tonight, and I thought it would be nice to make David Lebovitz’s fresh ginger cake and…
Category: baking
Recipe: Chocolate, Almond and Raspberry Cake
This is a scaled-down version of the bottom half of yesterday’s wedding cake. It’s still enormous. You might halve it again, in fact, andjust make it in one sandwich tin – I made it in a 21cm round springform tin…
Recipe: Delicious, But Disappointingly Un-Purple, Carrot Cupcakes
Ever since the weekend, I’ve been thinking about purple carrot cake. Whether purple carrots would make purple cake. How to maximise the purpleness of the cake. Whether a vegan carrot cake (lacking alkaline egg-white) would get me a better purple…
Recipe: Baklava
I promise there will be a Timon post in the next day or two, but I’m still rather bushed from the last few weeks, and photo posts always take me hours, so you will just have to make do with…
Recipe: Rocky Road for Timon
I’m in mad cooking mode for Shakespeare tomorrow. At this very moment, something that I hope will turn into Turkish Delight is glooping away, jellyfish-like, in a saucepan, so imagine, if you will, that this post is punctuated by mad…
Recipe: Pizza Serafina (Sultana pizza)
I work in a Medical Research Institute, and the nature of research is that people travel a lot for their careers. My current Divisions include scientists and students from France, Germany, Switzerland, Algeria, China, New Zealand, Sweden, The Netherlands, The…
Recipe: Old English Matrimonials for Melissa
I have a terrible, terrible habit as a cook. Actually, I have many terrible habits as a cook, as I’m sure you all know by now, not least of which is my complete inability to follow a recipe even when…
Planning and Pizza
I was hoping to write more here while I was on holidays, but the combination of my usual December activities, plus confectionery, plus the funeral, all followed up with several days of drainingly hot weather have left me more exhausted…
Recipe: Spicy Chocolate and Zucchini Cake
I can see you all looking at me rather oddly at this point, but zucchini cake is actually surprisingly good. My Oma used to make one with nuts in it, which in fact I didn’t like, but that wasn’t the…
Recipe: Vanilla and Carob Castle Cake
Hello! Have you missed me? I’ve missed you, she says, feelingly, looking at her terrifying list of un-read blog posts. I’ve got a few posts to catch up on, but I’m still rather exhausted from the confectionery and also from…