What have you baked today?

patricia50

Made choc cake with melted choc on top, sour cherry cake made with yogurt (doesnt sound good but tastes delish and I hate yogurt) Cooked spanish chicken for tomorrows tea and marinated some salmon fillets for tea tonight. I have been a busy little bee Ha Ha Ha.

Sunflower1227

Flap jacks, chocolate fairy cakes, dauphinoise pototes, roast chicken and carrot & tomato soup in the slow cooker:j

Thriftkitten

happy35 wrote: »

I use 3oz unsalted butter, 7 ounces of icing sugar and about 3 tablespoons of baileys.

Cream together the softened butter with the sieved icing sugar and as it starts to get dry slowly add the Baileys.

it is lush even if I say so myself, I created this one day when I didn't have any vanilla extract and have been making it ever since

Amaretto is also nice for a change

Thanks so much for this will try next week as it's my hiccy burpday next saturday... promise to try not to trip with the bottle of Baileys...
Oh for the record, I find " Irish Meadow" a nice alternative and close as possible to baileys but a fraction of the price.
But for my burpday I will overlook the cost and go for the real Mccoy.

meritaten

Thriftkitten wrote: »

Oh one of the residents at the home I work at said she used to make a boiled cake but cannot remember where she put the recipe, would love to run it by her if you would be so kind to share.

here is a recipe for boiled fruit cake (Ive made it a few times and it is really easy and very moreish!

4 ozs butter
4 ozs soft brown sugar
8 ozs mixed fruit (I also like to add a tablespoon of mixed peel but its not in the original recipe)
quarter pint of water
9 ozs self raising flour
1 teaspoon ground mixed spice
1 egg beaten
quarter teaspoon of salt

put the butter, sugar, mixed fruit and water in a saucepan and bring slowly to the boil. simmer for about 5 minutes then turn off the heat and leave to cool.
set the oven to gas 3 or 325F
sift the flour and spice into a mixing bowl and pour in the cool fruit mix. add the egg and salt and mix well.
pour into a greased and lined 7inch round cake tin and then bake in middle of oven for an hour and a half. test with a skewer and if it comes out clean then take cake out and turn it onto a wire rack to cool.

the recipe is from 'Favourite Cake Recipes' by Lucy Rose
hope this helps as this really is a delicious and easy teatime cake!:)

Dustykitten

Christmas cake in the AGA and smelling well just lovely, good few hours to go I'd imagine.

Speckled chocolate cake also cooking to feed to the kids in a bit as it is just plain wrong to smell cake cooking and not eat cake (or is that just in this house )

shepherdgirl

CommitedToChange wrote: »

I've got a small white loaf in the breadmaker. Gonna make Courgette cake later on while the oven is on I'll also make jacket potatoes and toad in the hole :-D

Any chance of the recipe for courgette cake please - love courgette cake, but lost my tried and trusted recipe - so many on the net to choose from, would love one that ou know is good :T

Thriftkitten

meritaten wrote: »

here is a recipe for boiled fruit cake (Ive made it a few times and it is really easy and very moreish!

4 ozs butter
4 ozs soft brown sugar
8 ozs mixed fruit (I also like to add a tablespoon of mixed peel but its not in the original recipe)
quarter pint of water
9 ozs self raising flour
1 teaspoon ground mixed spice
1 egg beaten
quarter teaspoon of salt

put the butter, sugar, mixed fruit and water in a saucepan and bring slowly to the boil. simmer for about 5 minutes then turn off the heat and leave to cool.
set the oven to gas 3 or 325F
sift the flour and spice into a mixing bowl and pour in the cool fruit mix. add the egg and salt and mix well.
pour into a greased and lined 7inch round cake tin and then bake in middle of oven for an hour and a half. test with a skewer and if it comes out clean then take cake out and turn it onto a wire rack to cool.

the recipe is from 'Favourite Cake Recipes' by Lucy Rose
hope this helps as this really is a delicious and easy teatime cake!:)

Thankyou for that I will have fun in the kitchen at work with June and she can remenisce over the days when she used to cook this xx

meritaten

you are most welcome Thriftkitten. I bet June will have a slightly different recipe, but that is half the fun isnt it?

Its funny but, I can read recipe books and think, yes, I remember my nan making something that sounds like that - and if I do the recipe and turns out like the one I remember...........oh the joy!!!!!!!!!!!! it feels like I am keeping nans memory alive - or does that sound too sickly sentimental?

Thriftkitten

meritaten wrote: »

you are most welcome Thriftkitten. I bet June will have a slightly different recipe, but that is half the fun isnt it?

Its funny but, I can read recipe books and think, yes, I remember my nan making something that sounds like that - and if I do the recipe and turns out like the one I remember...........oh the joy!!!!!!!!!!!! it feels like I am keeping nans memory alive - or does that sound too sickly sentimental?

Not at all meritaten, it's always a lovely feeling to remember something or someone close to your heart and to be able to give your little ones an experience of what you hold so dear to you is an added bonus.
My grandad used to cook the best sunday roast, whilst I was toiling away at sunday school trying to remember the lords prayer and keeping everything crossed that I wouldn't be asked to stand up and say it on my own, he was cooking up a storm just intime for me to run home. If it wasn't quite ready I would be sent round the corner and up the lane to feed the chickens some breadcrumbs.... not sure whose they were but maybe think my dear grandad bargained with the farmer that if he sent me every sunday to feed them he would be thrown a few birds at the end of the month xxx
I swear this is why I do a roast almost every sunday

Tiddlywinks

Just had a go at gingerbread men using a new recipe from the beeb website:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/68611/double-ginger-gingerbread-men

Had a bit of a wobble half way through as the final mix wasn't wet enough. I added more melted butter to bind it - now they are a bit too buttery.

Any suggestions of what I should have added to bind it? Milk, water....?

Anyway, if you do use this recipe add another teaspoon of ginger if you like ginger as this didn't have quite enough kick for me.

My blueberry muffins and wholemeal loaf worked out though so 2 out of 3 ain't bad .