There was a recipe sheet included with my package, which was for some Strawberry FairyCakes, but as I am posting a weekly Sepia Saturday – Seventy Years of Bakingwith Be-Ro, I decided to make some wee cakes from one of my Be-Ro cookbooks
Spread over the cooled cakesand topped with crystallised violets. A while ago, I won a bottle of violet & rose liqueur at a raffle and I've been waiting for just such an occasion as this to do something with it
My mum’s Milk Chocolate Cake is my most favourite of cakes – taken from an old Be-Ro cookbook, it was the first cake mum taught me to make – I used to make one every Sunday for afternoon tea to help her out, and, because even then, I loved baking
However, I find the cakes store better (in an airtight tin), without the icing/glaze, but they are lovely with the glaze poured over just before serving
It is a really simple cake to put together, so if you happen to have a mother that loves raspberries as much as I do, then why not grab yourself a bundt tin and get baking my bundt cake this mother’s day
The recipe is adapted from one in the Great British Bake Off Everyday book, but having made it once with the original blackberry filling, I then tried raspberries, and have made it that way ever since
Since World BakingDay is upon us and the sun didn’t make anappearance in the Scottish Highlandstoday (which explains the lack of natural light in my pictures today – boo
The lovely Ros from The More than Occasional Baker blog is next, and, she has done us proud by baking not one but THREE cakes, the three cakes that follow…
That way there’s no faffing with greasing the tin and cutting out baking parchment. *I used Sweet & Tender Coconut by Sainsbury’s found in the baking aisle
In summer and early autumn, the fruit and vegetables from the garden are picked and the house fills with the sweet smell of jam-making and the all-pervading vinegary aroma of chutney making
Add the butter, sugar, flour andbaking powder to a large mixing bowl and mix together withan electric mix or wooden spoon until they come together and form a sandy consistency
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