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Chocolate and butterscotch stripy fudge

Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Sweets (fudge, truffles and candy), tagged baking, chocolate, fudge on July 30, 2011| 2 Comments »

Look! Fudge! I made this! With a sugar thermometer! It was stressful. But yummy. And now I can check it off my to do list. Hurray! (more…)

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Banana and Mars bar loaf cake

Posted in Baking, Bananas, Greek yoghurt, Leftover ingredients, Loaf cake, Mars bars, tagged baking, banana, loaf cake, mars bar on July 24, 2011| 7 Comments »

Yesterday, I made my own cake recipe. I have, in the past, taken other cake recipes and, say, added chocolate chips to it, or switched the type of sugar used. But this was actual flour, sugar, butter, etc. quantities. I was scared. What if it didn’t work? Cooking is about being creative, but cake making is about science and, well, I’m bad at science. But it worked! It worked! Look at it! All… cakey! (more…)

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Ham and cheese sausage rolls

Posted in Baking, Sausages, Savoury, Snacks and sides, tagged baking, sausage, sausage rolls, snack on July 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Look at these. They lasted about 20 minutes. My nan has been making sausage rolls since I was very little and I don’t know how many times she’s been requested to make them over the years. They’re so good that I assumed they must be difficult to make, but, and it seems so obvious when you think about it, you only really need two ingredients and they can be ready to go in the oven in less than 15 minutes. (more…)

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Vanilla fudge muffins

Posted in Baking, Creme fraiche, Muffins, tagged baking, fudge, muffins, vanilla on July 18, 2011| 1 Comment »

After coming back from my holiday not quite looking like Kelly Brook (because of eating things like this), I decided I needed to get fitter. My friend Emma, who is a lot fitter than me, kindly offered to go running with me twice a week before work. This means getting up at 6am (urgh) to run three miles (urgh). Horrible. So, to make it more bearable, we agreed that we would take it in turns to bring muffins in for a post-run reward. I know this may sound counter-productive, but you try running before most sane people get up. (more…)

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