I can’t believe I’ve had a blog for over three years and a YouTube channel for over a year and it’s taken me this long to get a recipe for my all-time favourite cake up! I absolutely adore coffee and walnut cake, and this recipe is, for me, the best coffee and walnut cake bar none. It’s based upon my Mum’s recipe with a few tweaks made and I could…
I bloody love a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup. I know the chocolate is a bit naff, but I find them so moreish and basically anything with Peanut Butter in is my weakness. But, I find their so-called “Big Cups” to a bit of a misnomer. I mean, by USA standards, they’re really quite small. So, for my 500 subscriber special on my YouTube channel I decided to level up the…
Many people are under the impression that making fudge is hard, and if you’re doing it from scratch using butter and sugar because you have to keep an eye on the temperature and you have to worry about the fudge crystallising. But, making fudge doesn’t have to be tricky by using condensed milk which takes the hard work out of it and allows you to make amazing fudge with ease!…
The Hummingbird Cake has had a bit of a surge of popularity recently, but it’s actually a cake that has been around since the 1960’s – if not earlier – where it originated from Jamaica before being exported to the United States and gaining popularity in their southern states. The Hummingbird Cake shares a fair few characteristics with carrot cake – it’s oil-based, it’s beautifully spiced and it has a…
Vanilla Extract is a baking essential, but it’s also expensive – a little 60ml bottle of Vanilla Extract can set you back as much as £7 which works at over £1 for 10ml! So if you were to buy a litre of Vanilla Extract, it would cost you over £100! It’s not cheap at all but if you’re a regular baker like at myself then you’re probably going to go…