caking and making and baking, oh my!

bakeitinacake: One of my favorite breakfast cereals, Cinnamon...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:13:29 -0400

One of my favorite breakfast cereals, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, is finally in a cupcake! The pieces of cereal in the batter get a little chewy, adding a cool texture inside, and I sprinkle some more crumbs on the top of the cupcakes before baking, to give them some crunch.

Here’s the recipe!

OMG.

gingertoast: Yeah, bitches! #christmascake

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:26:30 -0500

gingertoast:

Yeah, bitches! #christmascake

Vodka Christmas Cake

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:36:54 -0500

Once again this year, I’ve had requests for my Vodka Christmas Cake recipe so here goes:

1 cup sugar, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1 cup water, 1 tsp. salt , 1 cup brown sugar, Lemon juice, 4 large eggs, Nuts, 1 bottle Vodka, 2 cups dried fruit.
Sample a cup of Vodka to check quality.

Take a large bowl, check the Vodka again to be sure it is of the highest quality then Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar. Beat again.

At this point, it is best to make sure the Vodka is still OK. Try another cup just in case. Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 eggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Pick the fruit up off the floor, wash it and put it in the bowl a piece at a time trying to count it. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers, just pry it loose with a drewscriver.

Sample the Vodka to test for tonsisticity. Next, sift 2 cups of salt, or something. Check the Vodka. Now shit shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over. Don’t forget to beat off the turner. Finally, throw the bowl through the window.
Finish the Vodka and wipe the counter, put your feet up with a refreshing beer.

WWMBS? (What Would Mary Berry Say?) “Well, at least it...

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:54:46 -0400

WWMBS? (What Would Mary Berry Say?)
“Well, at least it TASTES lovely”.

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Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:45:23 -0400

Maple French Toast and Bacon Cupcakes on the Food Network

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:24:45 -0400

Maple French Toast and Bacon Cupcakes on the Food Network:

OMG

Vegan chocolate cupcakes OMG. Recipe.

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:04:00 -0400

Vegan chocolate cupcakes OMG.

Recipe.

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Sun, 01 Apr 2012 08:00:06 -0400

Birthday carrot cake It’s my housemate’s birthday...

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 07:02:53 -0400

Birthday carrot cake

It’s my housemate’s birthday today! He requested a carrot cake so I relished the opportunity to make one that hopefully works this time. I love the fact that we’re both ginger and share the same favourite cake. How stereotypical of us.

It was so simple to make, here’s the recipe!

(Argh I don’t know why the ‘read more’ break won’t work, sorry)

225g self-raising flour
1 1/2 tsps cinnamon, 1/2 tsp ginger, 1/2 tsp mixed spice, 1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp baking powder
225g light brown soft sugar
100g walnuts
1/2 rind of a large orange
150ml sunflower oil
3 free range eggs
250g grated carrots

Preheat oven to 180C and grease and line 2 x 20-ish cm round tins. Sift the flour, baking powder and spices into a bowl. Add the sugar, orange and walnuts and mix around. Add the oil, eggs, and carrots and mix with a wooden spoon till thoroughly combined. Divide between the tins and bake for 20-25 minutes.

Leave on a wire rack to cool and make the ICING, mmmm icing…

200g full fat cream cheese, 50g butter, 150g icing sugar, rind of 1/2 orange and 2 tsp orange juice. Beat together until smooth, either by hand or with a mixer. When the cakes are completely cool, spread half the icing on one cake and sandwich the other on top, spreading the remaining icing on the top. Decorate with walnuts or oranges if you’re feeling fancy!

Taken from the excellent Great British Book of Baking.

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Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:57:49 -0400

cakemakes: Lemon polenta cake. I whipped this up this morning...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:48:37 -0400

cakemakes:

Lemon polenta cake.

I whipped this up this morning because I had a lemon knocking about in the cupboard and thought it looked a bit sad. So behold, a beautiful summer’s day cake! And so simple.

Ingredients:

120g SR flour

180g granulated sugar

140g polenta

80ml sunflower oil

80ml milk

Juice and grated rind of one lemon

1 egg

Preheat the oven to 180C, bung all the ingredients into a bowl and give it a good old mix around, pour it into a lined loaf tin and bake for 50 minutes. Ice with a drizzle of icing sugar and lemon juice glacé icing. Delicious!

Made this for the second time in a month today. So simple, so delicious!

OMG.

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:17:00 -0400

OMG.

gingertoast: What type of cheese impairs the vision of a horse?...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:53:22 -0400

gingertoast:

What type of cheese impairs the vision of a horse? Mascarpone!

I ACTUALLY WON CAKE CLUB. With a cheesecake! *brags forever*

Double chocolate Oreo cupcakes, with a secret Oreo hidden in the...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:17:31 -0500

Double chocolate Oreo cupcakes, with a secret Oreo hidden in the base, topped with whipped cream Oreo frosting and a whole Oreo.

… I like Oreos.

These are my entry for cake club tomorrow and I BETTER WIN THIS TIME.

Recipe!

Earl grey cupcakes. FYI anyone who cares, I really don’t trust...

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:10:00 -0500

Earl grey cupcakes.

FYI anyone who cares, I really don’t trust Hummingbird Bakery recipes. The cake did turn out a bit spongy as per (obv it’s sponge cake but shouldn’t look like a sponge) but it’s a cracking idea & tastes rather nice. So… I guess I’m torn.

My AMAZING home-made Christmas cake.

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:25:27 -0500

My AMAZING home-made Christmas cake.

Christmas Cake Club entry: German Lebkuchen Lebkuchen (or...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:00:00 -0500

Christmas Cake Club entry: German Lebkuchen

Lebkuchen (or Leeberkuchin as I used to call them) are one of my favourite things about Christmas. My Mum would buy a bag of pretty frosted gingerbread shapes and they’d all be eaten by the next day. I haven’t found any in the supermarket this year, so I thought it was a good opportunity to make my own (also I was too hungover to make anything more complex this weekend ;) ).

So, I found this wonderful looking recipe, a key element being a good way to use my left-over treacle from the Christmas cake. The resulting biscuits, although having a lovely chewy texture, had an overpowering taste of treacle and no hint of spice. Really sad.

Once again, I am yet to have a victory at Cake Club. *cries into my weird fudge and weird gingerbread*

So I spent this afternoon making Parsnip Vanilla Fudge. It...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:23:33 -0500

So I spent this afternoon making Parsnip Vanilla Fudge.

It involved stirring CONSTANTLY for an hour, lots of sugar, lots of worrying (I’ve made fudge before than wouldn’t set) but it worked wonderfully.

The taste can only be described as ‘weird’ however. Resoundingly parsnippy. Looks like my family will be playing ‘guess the flavour’ this Christmas!

I need to stop making recipes from this book really, but I love it too much!

Chocolate and peanut butter cupcakes take 2! I’ve made...

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:09:00 -0500

Chocolate and peanut butter cupcakes take 2!

I’ve made these for our post-massive-presentation-sigh-of-relief tomorrow. My group ask me every week why I haven’t made cake - because I make them on weekends and eat them by the time we have uni the following Thursday of course! Psh.

Anyway, here’s the recipe!

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Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:35:05 -0500