The inspiration for this cake came from a Clandestine Cake Club event I was hoping to attend, but ended up being postponed to a date I couldn't make - I had already made the sponge before I found out so I thought I might as well carry on and bring it into work instead!
The theme was to bake a cake inspired by art, and I was planning to recreate Van Gogh's Starry Night in cake form.
Fast and fancy. Fennel and salmon really do work together, despite my initial doubts. Serve the salmon with a fresh orange vinaigrette on tender greens and it makes an over-the-top quick weeknight dinner.
I've adapted this recipe from one published in Salmon: The Cookbook --edited by Bill Jones.
Serves 4
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Things are a little quiet on the baking front in the Hungry Hinny household at the minute, as our oven has been broken since last Sunday. Nine whole days of no oven! I can just about cope with preparing meals that don't use the oven but the lack of baking is really starting to get to me.
It's a particularly annoying time for it to happen, as I was given two fantastic books for Christmas that I can't wait to start trying recipes from but have to wait - not fun!
I absolutely adore cinnamon (despite spending the first 22 years or so of my life hating it) so when Choclette chose it as this month's We Should Cocoa challenge ingredient it should have been easy for me to think of things to bake.
In a way it was, I had plenty of ideas, but things have been a bit manic in my kitchen recently, what with making Christmas gifts, food for parties and catering to the pony's rather specific needs (quick to eat breakfasts and bars he can take to work), so finding a way of squeezing cinnamon in was actually harder than I expected.
Is there any better pairing than bananas and Nutella? If these muffins are anything to go by, definitely not!
Ages ago I made Nutella swirled vanilla muffins, and remember thinking at the time they would work well as banana muffins, then when I saw these over at Sweet Pea's Kitchen I knew it had to be done.
I upped the chocolate and hazelnut flavour by adding chunks of hazelnut milk chocolate to the batter, which worked well as it meant it wasn't just the muffin tops that had the delicious mix of flavours.
I've made a fair few coffee cakes over the years, as it's my dad's favourite, but I've never actually tried a traditional coffee and walnut because of his aversion to nuts, so when my colleague requested it as one of her favourites I was quite excited to give it a go.
After quite a bit of research I settled on a…
This is probably the easiest and quickest cheesecake ever to make.
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Homemade Cut Flower Extender. This mixture is comparable to the little packets that you get with cut flowers. Works a charm!
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I made chocolate brownies the other day from a recipe I found on Cake in the Country's fab blog. I did cheat a bit and only used 3 eggs instead of 4, drinking chocolate instead of cocoa and vanilla essence instead of extract (sorry Sarah I know it's 'illegal' in any good kitchen but mine is a bad kitchen ;) )
This is an easy quick bread to celebrate cherry season. Double the recipe and make an extra loaf for the freezer. Fresh ground cardamom seeds really enhance the flavour of the cherries, not that they need any enhancement. They are so good just right from the tree. If you don't like cardamom, you could substitute cinnamon.
Makes one 9 x 5" loaf…
