I have to tell you a little guilty pleasure of mine…. I just love a bundt tin ! They can be expensive to buy, they are notorious for being hard work to get cakes out of, but they are just so pretty and can make the most simple of cakes look…
Chocolate and Strawberry Cake
The sun is shining and my thoughts turn to Afternoon Tea in the garden and of course scrumptious cake ! Recently Olly and I popped into The Cake Shed in Tunbridge Wells and are now totally addicted, the sandwiches and range of tea choices are amazing, but what is really…
Gluten Free Strawberry Cake
Everyone knows that I love to bake for my friends and family, you can not pop round to my house for a coffee without being offered cake, it is just against the rules ! Sometimes this does set me a few challenges, friends on diets, friends with nut allergies and…
Strawberry and Black Pepper Meringue Kisses
Its day 4 of Mad Meringue Week here on Gelsomina’s Cucina and I hope you have been enjoying the recipes so far, todays is something a little simple, but simple does not mean tasteless, these little beauties are vibrant and full of the taste of summer. Still to come this…
Wildflower Honey & Edible Flower Cake
Bank holiday weekend and we have had some glorious sunny days, for me this signals a need to go out into the countryside to walk and to forage, then to bake, this weekend was no exception. Hubby and I seem to of fallen into a pattern of, while he watches…
The Queen’s Jubilee & Childhood Memories
It’s the start of half-term and as usual I am in the kitchen preparing pancakes for brunch for my brood, its a tradition in our family and one that, however old the Children become, a tradition they still love and always ask for. Watching Luca licking the bowl of a…
Iced Fingers – The Paul Hollywood Recipe
As you maybe aware, if you have come across my Blog before, I have mentioned setting myself a few challenges from the Great British Bake Off, so far I have made macaroons, which need work, a very amazingly successful Sachertorte, don’t know what all the fuss was about and now…
Quick Strawberry & Vanilla Gateau
This weekend has not gone to plan, like many best laid plans, life has come along and thrown a spanner in the works. Friday night Ben and I rushed off to Sainsburys to buy the ingredients needed for the above gateau, this was to be made in preparation for…
Everyone needs a good basic sponge recipe
Everyone should have a simple, but works every time sponge recipe in their repertoire, something that you can knock up in seconds and can adapt. My recipe comes from a cookery book that I have had for over 22 years, pages have now fallen out, there is no index,…
Perfect Pavlova
Nigella likes to refer to this recipe as a prodigious pavlova, I like the idea of describing it as this as it means remarkably or impressively great in extent & size and trust me it is. The first time I made this I was a little overwhelmed at just how…
