Like nearly 4 million other Brits, I was glued to the quarterfinals of The Great British Bake Off last Tuesday evening. Who would have thought that watching four women grapple with iced buns, wrestle croissants into shape and take on the art of patisserie would be so compelling? Well, I certainly wasn’t alone. “A perfectly [...]
Archive for the ‘Sweet Snacks’ Category
Raspberry genoise mousse cake (…sort of…)
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged cake, cream, difficult, fail, gelatin, genoise sponge, Great British Bake Off, layer, Mary Anne Boermans, mousse, raspberry, strawberry, Tom Parker Bowles, tricky on October 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Fairy cake
Posted in Sweet Snacks, tagged birthday present, Clara Glass, fairy cake, food, rach smith, rachel smith, the food i eat, thefoodieat on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a drizzly day, and everyone’s feeling a little jaded after excessive birthday celebrations lastnight - so what’s more cheering than a big mug of tea and fairy cakes? Many thanks to Clara for providing much needed (and absolutely beautiful) sustenance. Tea and cake in front of X-Factor repeat…living the dream! For a fairy cake [...]
Breakfast of Kings: stewed plums
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged cinnamon, food, plums, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, stewed plums, the food i eat, thefoodieat, youghurt on August 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Hooray for plum season! My mum very kindly brought me a haul this weekend. I had to do something with them fairly quickly, so decided that stewing was the best option. It makes for a super breakfast. Ingredients lots of plums half a mug of water couple of tablespoons of sugar sprinkling of cinammon juice [...]
Banana split breakfast
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged bananna split, breakfast, chocolate, ice cream, naughty on July 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
When your boyfriend has gone away on business, and it’s an uninspiring Saturday morning, then this is a sure fire way to perk yourself up. Yum yum!
Summer pudding
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged bread, fruit, juice, pudding, recip, summer, summer pudding, the food i meet on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Did you know that evidence of rain dances can be found in the history of people from the Ancient Egyptians to Native Americans? The ritual developed independently in tribes around the world who thought that if they had a good old jig then it might coax rain to come and water their harvests. Oh how [...]
Redcurrant Soufflé
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged amaretto, cream, dessert, egg white, eggs, food, pudding, recipe, redcurrant, redcurrant souffle, souffle, sugar, the food i eat, thefoodieat on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s round this time of year that my mother is in the midst of a fruit-induced madness. It starts with raspberries, then strawberries, then redcurrants…then just as it’s beginning to wane, it’s the blackcurrants, blackberries, then apples… She gets up at odd hours in the morning to pick fruit, she can’t go on a summer [...]
Cloud Forest Chocolate Cake
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged almond, birthday, cacao, cake, chocolate, chocolate cake, cloud forest chocolate cake, willie harcourt-cooze, willie wonka on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t posted for so long…and I’m not proud of it. To start with I had toothache for about three weeks, and the last thing I felt like was cooking-least alone eating and writing about it. …the thing is that after dejecting the blog for so long, it becomes hard to get back in the [...]
Fariy Cakes
Posted in Sweet Snacks, tagged food, recipe, the food i eat, thefoodieat, rachel smith, fairy cakes, fairy, cakes, cupcake, egg, flour, flower, pansy, pansie, paint, rach smith on June 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Delicious magazine (one of my monthly indulgences) have set up a ‘cook’s challenge.’ Each month, they’re choosing a specific recipe for their readers to cook and photograph. Seeing as I do a lot of cooking and a lot of photographing anyway, I thought I’d give it a go. This month was cupcakes (see recipe lifted [...]
Slumber party pudd: white chocolate and strawberry mousse
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged biscuit, biscuit base, cream, food, Mary Berry, mousse, pudding, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, slumber party, strawberry, sweet, the food i eat, thefoodieat, treat, white chocolate, white chocolate mousse, white chocolate strawberry mousse on June 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Click here to vote for this recipe in the Real Food Challenge - so far it only has 1 rating…and that was me…and I clicked 1* by mistake. Darn. When it’s a Saturday night and some of your gal pals are round for a slumber party, a chocolate-based pudding is a must. I love this [...]
Elderflower and Honey Ice Cream (best breakfast of 2011, so far…)
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged blueberries, cordial, elderflower, elderflower and honey ice cream, food, glucose, honey, ice cream, liquid glucose, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, the food i eat, thefoodieat on May 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Two things happened earlier this week: firstly, it came to my attention that it’s National Ice Cream Week. Secondly, I suddenly got overwhelmed by the huge amount of space my elderflower cordial is taking up in my freezer. So, I did the obvious thing, and made a batch of elderflower ice cream. The recipe is [...]