Category Archives: Sweet Stuff

Chocolate Mint Pecan Brownies from David Liebovitz

Chocolate After Eight Brownies David Liebovitz

This one caught my eye and held it long enough for me to print out the recipe, scan the ingredients, and pick up a box of After Eights when I went out to get the Saturday papers yesterday. (The flowering plant is a ‘false’ forget-me-not or Brunnera macrophylla – Jack Frost in case you’re wondering.) Continue reading

Nigel Slater’s Frosted Orange Marmalade Cake

Nigel Slater's Frosted Orange Marmalade Cake I wasn’t going to do a post for this but Choclette has commented on the photo, I didn’t know you could do that.. it was just a photo that I put on Twitter today that is uploaded to my blog library. How many drizzly cakes does anyone want to see in one day after all? But here is the other cake. I like the taste and texture of this one much more than the one in the Bundt tin. Continue reading

Carnation Lemon Drizzle Bundt Cake

Is that more cake I see?

I was reading Suelle’s Mainly Baking blog and admiring her lovely chocolate sponge cake recently;  I clicked on her link to the recipe and found myself on the Carnation website. With me so far? I stayed a bit and found this recipe for a lemon drizzle cake on the same site.

This was the first one that matched what I had in the cupboard and looked like it might make enough batter for my very glamorous cake tin. I had left over lemons galore from marmalade making as well as the condensed milk so I took this as a sign.

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