Bespoke Cakes, Cupcakes and Cookies
This is one of my favourite home made ingredients. You can put it in so many different things or just enjoy it straight from the jar (or pan) with a spoon if you wanted to. This salted caramel is amazing poured on the top of brownies just before they go in the oven, drizzled between layers …
I seem to be going through abit of a cookie phase at the moment. This isn't such a bad thing as the other-half loves eating them so is rather happy when I return from the kitchen with a plate full of warm, fresh out of the oven cookies. This was one of my main reasons …
When my parents moved to Australia 10 years ago I discovered the most amazing biscuits ever. Anzac Cookies. The oaty, coconutty, buttery yumminess that is these cookies. I also decided as tomorrow is Anzac day in Australia I thought today would be the time to revive my old recipe for these tasty treats. These are …
So, its been a while! There has just been so much going on lately I just haven't found the time to get any blogging done. The backlog is enormous and I promise I will get round to writing all my posts and doing this more regularly. In the last 3 months I have been back …
To help us get into the Christmas Spirit we planned a trip to Frankfurt and Mainz with our lovely friends Emma and Nick. Here are a couple of snaps from an amazing weekend! These were from the little town not far from Frankfurt on the train, Mainz. We ate some tasty food: Overall it was …
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So, anyone who knows me knows that I have been a yo-yo dieter for years. I've paid for personal trainers, eaten 'clean' and been a regular gym goer for over 5 years but my biggest issue to losing weight is the fact that I love cake, I mean, I LOVE CAKE and biscuits and all …
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Just a quick post to share a cake from a few weeks ago... Inside the cake is a delicious Vanilla, strawberry and Vanilla butter cream- Yum! Inside the tractor are home made rice krispie treats (Recipe coming soon!)
I made a cake extremely similar to this last year and I very recently had the opportunity to make it again. The cake included some of the most popular super heroes, Captain America, Superman, Spiderman and Batman. I think these are my favourite two sections- A Batrang with the Gotham skyline (complete with Wayne tower) …
When I was a teenager it was always custom, when going to the local shopping centre, to get a bag of Millies Cookies. My favourite flavour was Double Choc Cherry. I loved them and would always get at least two. Then one day, excited for my delicious chocolate cherry cookie, I learned that they had …
This is one of the things that I get asked how to do quite often...so I thought I best do a quick tutorial! It is much simpler than it seems, you just need a few tools to make it nice and simple. The cake of your choice - I used the brooklyn black out recipe …
Rachel Bakes 