Blueberry Traybake

I have a bad baking relationship with blueberries. No matter how delicately I coat them in flour, or how gentle I am while folding them into the mixture, they are on a high-speed one-way trip to the bottom of the tin. They still taste good though, and I suppose that’s what matters!

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Decorated Sugar Cookies: Daring bakers’ Challenge September 2010

The September 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Mandy of “What the Fruitcake?!” Mandy challenged everyone to make Decorated Sugar Cookies based on recipes from Peggy Porschen and The Joy of Baking. For the challenge, we must make the Basic Sugar Cookies using the recipe provided and decorate them with the theme of ‘September’. [...]

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Swedish Visiting Cake

I’ve had Dorie Greenspan‘s book ‘Baking: from my home to yours’ for a few months now, but I hadn’t got round to baking anything from it.  This book has an amazing online presence on the blog ‘Tuesdays with Dorie‘, where a large group of food bloggers take part in a baking frenzy every week! Each [...]

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Back to the grind….

It has been unusually quiet around here lately….because I’ve been on holidays! A whirlwind trip around Tuscany

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Muffins a-go-go!

I’m looking for a winning muffin recipe. Preferably one bowl.  A recipe that will stand up to variations and craziness depending on mood and what’s lying around. It’s a tall order. This is the first recipe I’ve tried and, for now, the last. This is a good solid recipe producing (mostly) fluffy, moist muffins. It’s [...]

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Chicken & Chorizo Rice Bake

I found this recipe on week 6 of the boards.ie Cooking Club! Every week a delicious sweet or savoury recipe is posted by a boards.ie user to get us all into the kitchen and experimenting with new recipes! I’m (very) slowly making my way through the recipes (I made the Brownies from week 17 already [...]

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