Spicing It Up

In my efforts to bake my way through Mary Berry’s Baking Bible, beginning to end, I have now reached Chapter Three: Spiced Cakes. As you might expect, it contains several recipes for gingerbread of one sort or another, but there are some cakes that you may never have made or even tasted before and the…

Two Old Friends and One New

Three more cakes done from Chapter One of Mary Berry’s Baking Bible in my efforts to bake the book from A to Z (or Genesis to Revelations perhaps). The three bakes were Cappuccino Cake, Lemon Yoghurt Cake and the classic Battenburg Cake. First to the new friend, Cappuccino Cake or more perhaps more accurately in this…

One Old Friend & Two New Ones

I am more than halfway through Chapter One of Mary Berry’s Baking Bible, which is not much of an achievement, but one has to take what crumbs one can find. I seem to have fallen into the habit of blogging about three baking escapades at a time, which is more to do with finding the…

Swiss Rolls – 3 Sweet & 1 Savoury

Technically, the savoury one was a roulade, but it was probably the best looking one so I’m going to keep it in. As you may or may not know, I decided to bake Mary Berry’s Baking Bible, cover to cover and I had reached the point where there are three Swiss roll recipes (more about…

The Classic of Classics

Ok, so this is my second blog, in which I intend to share my baking adventures, including my self-imposed challenge to bake all the recipes, mostly in order, in Mary Berry’s Baking Bible. I should probably explain that the first chapter is Classic Cakes and consists of the author’s takes on go-to cake recipes. It…