Perfect for afternoon tea: Recipe You will need: 20cm round, loose based, deep cake tin, greased with baking paper on the base 180g plain flour 130g golden caster sugar 1 teaspoon baking power ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1½ teaspoon ground ginger 2 balls stem ginger (usually from a jar with…
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Cake
“The reassuring ritual of quietly weighing out butter, sugar, flour, cracking eggs, whisking, beating and folding”
Pear, Plum and Blackberry Sponge
Whilst stocking up the fridge after my weekly shop I realised I had a few plums and pears at the back of the fridge that had been there for quite a while. There was also half a punnet of blackberries that were on the turn and needed using up. I didn’t want to waste any…
Cake
Cake. It’s not that difficult. We all know the eating is easy, especially if in cupcake or muffin form, the joy about these being that they are also portable snacks of sugary love. Actually the hard part is sometimes restraining yourself from eating that 3rd slice! Seriously though, making a cake is not difficult but…
