I mentioned in an earlier Cakes & Bakes post that I have an ever-increasing collection of cake tins. You a

Cold, winter weather makes you crave hearty, warm, delicious puds. This easy to make banana upside down cake f

Eccles cakes. In my opinion - they're not cakes, or even biscuits - they're pastries! We watched the Great Spo

I was browsing a bookshelf in Picture House Antiques last week and my eyes fell upon a book that I just had to

After the Christmas period we always have a load of festive food that remains to be consumed; dates, dried fig

A good recipe for a simple plain white loaf is an essential in your baking repetoire. This is an easy to make,

I'm not usually one to blow my own trumpet, but my first attempt at sticky toffee pudding produced a masterpie

It's been a while since our Cakes & Bakes series featured something savoury - it's been very cake-heavy of

My friend Duncan came over to visit for my birthday last week and, along with birthday presents, he came beari

This double chocolate stout cake was a resounding hit this week! I've used stout to make bread before, but thi

The hawthorn, or Crataegus Monogyna, is one of the latest fruiting shrubs of the year. They're an important so

I've been meaning to try to make a Manchester tart for ages. It's a fairly local dish although not all that co

Something like coffee mousse cake is good as an after-dinner dessert. There's cake that's good for breakfast (

We're massive banana fans chez H is for Home - and banana cake is a firm favourite. This boozy, decadent versi

There were still LOADS of apples left over after making an apple & blackberry pie a few weeks ago. I hate

 Baking Mad kindly sent us a package containing some cake-making bits & bobs to review last week. I've ne

Cassava pone takes me right back to my childhood in Trinidad. It's something I remember eating at my grandmoth

Every year around this time we are given a bucketful of homegrown apples from the neighbour of Justin's parent

This week I've made a batch of sourdough cheese scones. I've made sweet scones before, I've made savoury scone

Although I bake at least one loaf per week, it's been a while since I did a 'bready' Cakes & Bakes post. T

A Victoria sandwich is a quintessentially British cake and this sponge cake with raspberry and mascarpone cre

Those who know Rose Prince's cake-making will be accustomed to the boiling method that she uses for fruit and

I had another request for this week's Cakes & Bakes to be cookies (Justin is SO demanding! ;-) ) I flipped

Justin loves a good lemon drizzle cake. Me? I'm very 'meh' **shrugs shoulders** - I can take or leave anything

It's been a while since I shared a bread recipe - this one is for a fig, walnut and blue cheese loaf. It's a r

Cookies are like buses; nothing for ages then three come along one after the other! :-) We've been enjoying ha

The title of this post is a bit of a misnomer. Millionaire's shortbread is, according to Wikipedia, "a biscuit

Despite having almost permanently cold hands I've never been very good at making pastry. I thought I'd man up,

The weather's been too hot for baking & eating full-on cake this week. All we fancy eating is salad and ha

I was out foraging for elderflowers this week - something I do every summer. We've blogged in the past about m

I regularly bake cakes and loaves of bread but very rarely cookies. Maybe it's because you can get such a rang

I've been promising to send my sister-in-law my flapjack recipe for years. I normally make them by eye and con

I hunted around the internet for a sourdough focaccia recipe that I liked the look of and finally came across

We love asparagus. It's only around for a few weeks in late spring - the tinned stuff is awful - hence the rel

This week I attempted a cake (or more rightly, a bake) that I'd not done before - lemon & polenta berry sq

Carrot cake is one of our favourite cakes. The recipe I prefer to use is one I found in Baking - Simple Cooker