I absolutely love this, it’s my favourite banana bread! Thanks Elaine for the recipe! Ingredients: 225g plain flour 1 tspn. salt 1 heaped tspn. of baking powder 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon 110g of caster sugar (normal is fine as well) 1 egg beaten 75ml of sunflower oil 2-3 drops of vanilla essence 65g of…
Category: Desserts
Delicious Homemade Cookies
With lots of chocolate in the house after Easter we decided to use them up based on the recipe from BBC Good Food. Please see link below: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/vintage-chocolate-chip-cookies This recipe is great. The 200g of chocolate chips we divided into 4 different types of cookies. We made Cadbury Buttons cookies (75g), Galaxy (plain) (50g), Galaxy…
Carrot Cake
Ingredients (serves 12 portions): Cake: 225g/8 oz self-raising flour 1.5 tsp baking powder 1.25 tsp baking soda 1.5 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp salt 3 eggs beaten 175g/6 oz granulated sugar 157ml/6 fl oz vegetable oil 200g/8 oz carrots grated 50g/2 oz walnuts, roughly chopped 50g/2 oz sultanas (optional) 3 rings of tinned pineapple Icing: 100g/4…
Chocolate chip scones made with cream
Chocolate chip scones made with cream. They are definitely worth the extra cals! Nom nom! Best served with tay! #chocolatechipscones #homemadescones #cookingincookley #enjoyfood #enjoymakingfood #bakingistherapy #whattodowhenstuckindoors ! ————————————————————— Ingredients (makes 6) * 280 g/10 oz. Plain flour, sifted * 1 tablespoon baking powder * 50 g/1.7 oz. granulated sugar * 1/2 teaspoon salt * 75 g/2.6 oz. cold butter, cut into small cubes…
Afternoon Tea
The top tier consists of Jamie Oliver’s chocolate pots which we served with strawberries and shortbread. We found these to be very rich and probably wouldn’t make them again, but they looked good! Please see link below for this recipe: https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/chocolate-pots#spotim-comments The middle tier has chocolate chip scones made from cream. These were really tasty…
Bacon Soda Bread
Our Mam used to make this bread for us and it would all be eaten before it got a chance to cool. I used to love it with cream cheese on top. Absolutely gorgeous! I’m not eating meat anymore so Elaine was flying the flag for this one! Ingredients: 100g of unsmoked bacon/rashers 450g plain…
No bake salted caramel cheesecake
Elaine made this amazing birthday cake for me this weekend! It was gorgeous! Thank you so much! Recipe