My first bake from Mary Berry’s Baking Bible Challenge for 2016 was this Devil’s Food Cake, which I made for Jim’s birthday. I have to say, I was really disappointed…
Chocolate
I’m not the biggest fan of traditional Christmas cake, so decided to make Buche de Noel this year – I made and filled the chocolate swiss roll ahead of time…
Bake number 58 of 219 is Mississippi Mud Pie! I was a little apprehensive about attempting this after a previous disaster with a baked cheesecake, but following some advice I…
Rosalie always wants to help me in the kitchen these days, and since today I had to stay home for a delivery, and on top of that it was pouring…
In anticipation of a need for cake last week I made this Chocolate Victoria Sandwich, recipe number 55 of 219. As it turns out I didn’t need the cake, and…
What else was I going to do with leftover double cream? Whipping up a chocolate swiss roll whilst Rosalie took a nap seemed like a perfect idea. It’s pretty straightforward…
Woohoo! 50 bakes in to my challenge! I can’t believe it; I only started this challenge less than a year ago. In celebration, I present bake number fifty…Chocolate Chip Brownies.…
Yesterday I had my first attempt at making choux pastry…and it went rather well actually! I’ve been promising Jim I’ll make chocolate eclairs for ages, but I’d been putting it…