Cake Off
Lindsay's Description:
While not a cake decorating blog, Cake Off does involve a lot of baking, creativity and food fun. Daniel and Joanna are friends and are both passionate about cake. Each week they both bake something new and get creative with their recipes, showcasing their results for all to see. The result is Cake Off, home to baking fun, a good place to hunt out recipe ideas and an all round interesting and individual food blog.
Daniel and Joanna's Description:
Where friendly rivalry could lead to a bun fight
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Recent Updates at Cake Off
Banana, pecan, date
23 July 2010
I have not baked for ages it seems, been rather busy of late. So here is rather a feeble post from me but a delicious one I think. I love dates and pecans in cakes so what better than to combine them, especially in a banana loaf recipe. This one is based on the chocolate, ...
A giant chocolate cake
20 July 2010
Make this vast – 30cm – chocolate cake for Jan’s birthday party, which I helped do the catering for along with Dom and Fran. Traditionally, large-scale cakes for events tend to be fruit cakes, as they’re solid and hold their structure well. However, fruit cakes are dull, nay ...
Maple syrup scones
07 June 2010
These are from the rather gorgeous Rose Bakery cookbook Breakfast Lunch Tea, which our friend Jude gave us as a present (not using the royal we there – we as in me and Fran, the wife, as it was our wedding anniversary). Founded by Rose Carrarini, who co-founded Villandry in London, the ...
Nosy Muffins
18 May 2010
For some reason when I bake muffins with the fan on they sometimes grow noses. These are particularly nosy ones. They didn’t all turn out like this thank goodness, but I’m tempted to stick a couple of eyes on them and some whiskers perhaps. I made this recipe up, just played around with ...
Chocolate Rum Pots
10 May 2010
I’ve been a bit off the boil, so to speak, with cake baking. I did however make these chocolate pots on Saturday night for some friends – they are pretty delicious and dead simple. They are very mousse-like without the use of horrible gelatine, so I’d call them a mousse rather ...
Tamarind, date and walnut cake
08 May 2010
I’ve had a block of tamarind pulp hanging around in the fridge, from some curry or other a while back, so this seemed a perfect opportunity to use some of it up. It’s another delicious Dan Lepard recipe, from the Guardian Weekend. Here’s the recipe. Thing is, pulp ain’t ...
Muscovado peanut cookies
04 May 2010
Another Dan Lepard recipe from the Guardian. Find it here. These are very handsome, tasty cookies. Not the usual massive monsters I make. Dan L says “place round, teaspoon-sized balls” on the baking sheets, but I just got teaspoon fulls and rolled them between my palms to the size of a ...
Jam Buns & Carrot Cake
26 April 2010
I cracked two eggs whilst making another batch of Lavender Cupcakes the other day so I had to make soemthing else as well (of course I did). These jammy buns are from a nice little book my sister sent me Best-kept Secrets of the Women’s Institute: Cakes and Biscuits (only their cakes and ...
Whoopie pies
26 April 2010
Such a silly name. They originate from the Pennsylvania Amish, apparently, and one theory suggests they name comes from the utterance made by a hard-working farmer when he found one in his packed lunch. Or something. Anyway, supposedly they’re trendy. Like cupcakes. Or trendier than cupcakes. ...
Maple and pecan parsnip cake
19 April 2010
Some people can still be a little put-off by vegetable-based cakes, but carrot cake is pretty commonplace, and beetroot goes decidedly well with with dark chocolate, so I thought it was about time to play around with parsnip. Parsnip is a very sweet, aromatic root veg anyway, so I think it needed ...
