Obsession

I attempted to start a lock-down bakeoff online and for the first challenge I set swiss roll or babka. It may die a prompt death if no one joins me but at least I tried. There's something addictive about designing challenges and I have a shedload. Geeky bake idea queen - and out there I'm guessing some frustrated producer of Bakeoff is dreaming of filming a football documentary or something. Here was my swiss roll anyway. I have previously made the Tokyo Banana recipe from here and whilst it makes the best sponge, the custard flowed straight out. It tasted really nice though and I need to work on that, but for this I wanted an actual banana custard and therefore I turned to this site for a creme patisserie recipe which I adapted to my ingredients. Decopaste: 1 egg white 30g caster sugar 40g plain flour 20g butter Food colouring. Method: Mix everything together in the order above. Divide into bowls and colour with food colouring or in my case, some cocoa ...

This was a post pancake day bake but it turned out WONDERFUL. Basically I have a friend who has a major love of banoffee. So when I had a pancake day gathering we grabbed bananas, toffee and cream. Lots of cream. But come the week after, I'm sitting around with some leftover bananas ripening nicely and half a can of caramel. So I went searching online :) Now this recipe came from the NY Times which I linked here. I made some adjustments to use up the leftover ingredients I had, in particular cutting the sugar content and...well I didn't have enough butter so I did use spread to make up the difference in the crust and the blondie batter and I don't think it suffered significantly even if it was super light Flora (not recommended for baking!) Anyway, I list my adjusted recipe below: 280g unsalted butter 200g Oreos (56p on deal, but any biscuit would be pretty good) 2 bananas 2 large eggs 350g dark brown sugar 1 tsp vanilla (I'd try the rum but we have no...

After obsessing about the Sky High baking group pics from several years ago, and buying the Sky High book, I've funnily only ever made one recipe - the buttermilk cake recipe, that is *drumroll* up till now!! It was my brother's birthday and ... I realised that in our family we don't have any "favourite" cakes. My sister doesn't do raisins, my parents don't like cinnamon or anything other than vanilla sponge with whipped cream, but we have NO FAVOURITE CAKES. Which, can be quite handy. So today I made Banana and chocolate chip cake from the book. Shockingly easy, but also in the american way of baking, not so great on the results. Let me explain, if you gave me a list of ingredients I am almost always going to go butter, sugar, eggs, flour - in that order. This cake is almost muffin-like in it's creation. Dry meets wet, meets some more wet. I think the texture suffered as a result and it didn't have the lushness of banana bread. A bit more cream...

It's that time... yes I need to use the slightly out of date leftover stuff from the weekend. The glup of buttermilk and the sour cream. Unfortunately there is still a half cup of sour cream I have to find a use for, but! To the Banana Cake Batman! The recipe is from Betty Crocker, free application on the ipod touch. It's one of those pigging annoying recipe books where 99% of the recipes use a mix created by... Betty Crocker!! However, it has a recipe search where I looked up buttermilk and so, made banana cake. If you are doing this, one assumes you'd actually have buttermilk. I used my glup and made the difference up with sour cream. Please note that Frau Crocker also grossly underestimates the baking time. Mine took an hour or more using a 9 inch pan? Don't let it put you off though (apart from the gas bill I guess) because putting the cake itself together took less than ten minutes. I admit though, I had my brother mash the bananas for me, and being my brother he c...