Flour, Cake and Pastry

Hello weekend! How excited I am to see you! So this week has been a crazy busy week, but I still found time to do a spot or two of baking, as always. We had a few lemons left in our fridge that were never going to get used up, so I thought I may as well pop them into one of my bakes * . And this is the result! Lemon flavoured shortbread biscuits, sandwiched together with a tangy lemon curd (which I admit, is a supermarket lemon curd, but that also needed using up so...), and finished with a dusting of icing sugar. They go perfect with a cuppa, or to be honest just by themselves. With a biscuit base that literally does just melt in your mouth and then a hit of delicious lemon, you really can't go wrong. Ingredients 200g softened butter 140g caster sugar 1 egg yolk 280g plain flour, sieved 1 lemon: zest 1/2 jar lemon curd Icing sugar, to finish Plain flour, to dust Method Cream together the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, and then add in the egg yolk and beat ...

Hello! So today I am off on my travels to Australia and New Zealand! And to celebrate I thought I'd share some yummy 'Taste of...' recipes to get you inspired and to just share some new and exciting flavours from across the globe. So look out over the next couple of weeks for some delicious treats from the other side of the world. This week sees the turn of Lamingtons, made from squares of sponge cake coated in an outer layer of either chocolate or raspberry sauce and then rolled in desiccated coconut. The thin mixture is absorbed into the cake and left to set, giving it its unique and distinctive texture. Without further a do... Ingredients 3 eggs 1/2 cup caster sugar 3/4 cup self-raising flour 1/4 cup corn-flour 15g butter 3tbsp hot water For the icing 3 cups desiccated coconut 2 cups icing sugar 1/3 cup cocoa powder 15g butter 1/2 cup milk Method Pre-heat your oven to 180C and grease and line a 18cm x 28cm tin. Beat the eggs until they're ...