We have finally eaten all the Christmas biscuits and the cake tin was looking rather bare, so I had a flip through one of my recipe clipping folders and came across Mary's teatime cake, a recipe from the very talented and delightful MaryBerry and published in BBC Good Food magazine
MaryBerry Absolute Favourites is a gorgeous collection of MaryBerry’s past and present favourite recipes to accompany a brand new six part television series
MaryBerry Cooks the Perfect is a cookbook packed full of enticing recipes you’ll just want to try. One very lucky reader will win a copy of this brilliant book featuring all new recipes
As I am sure you are aware recent chefs / cooks being pounced on included MaryBerry for being so audacious as to put white wine and cream in her Bolognese and Jamie Oliver who nearly bought back the Spanish inquisition when he popped some chorizo in his paella
This recipe comes from Olympian Dame Mary Peters. Dame Mary Peters is an Olympic gold medallist in the women’s pentathlon and regarded as one of Northern Ireland’s greatest ever athletes
I’d seen a few recipes on TV and found this recipe from MaryBerry. I haven’t tried any of them and so can’t vouch for them, but Mary gives a few flavour alternatives in her original recipe
Jen made MaryBerry’s lemon yoghurt cake last year and enjoyed the taste and texture that the yoghurt gave to the cake, so that was the inspiration for this recipe, and I think her cakes look SO pretty as well as sounding wonderful with all those great ingredients
There’s lots of variations on this but we’ve always been super successful with MaryBerry’s Victoria Sponge recipe – it’s light, fluffy, moist, flavoursome and easy to scale the quantities up, so that’s the recipe that we used
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