Recipe from February’s cake club, much requested, with thanks to Claire Gruner, it was a stunning and delicious cake, very tall and impressive: This is the original recipe and was intended for a rectangular cake. I baked mine as 4 x 8” round cakes instead. Dark Chocolate & Raspberry Buttercream Cake with Ganache Drizzle Yield: [...]

This recipe is kindly given to us by member Ann Jennings. Ann tells me that last year  (2011) it was chosen for M&S charity cookbook called The Little Book Of Treats on sale in their stores supporting Macmillan Cancer Support. VICTORIAN TRIFLE CAKE What could be nicer than cake with a layer of custard cooked [...]

Recipe adapted from Nigella 1x 23cm/9in springform round cake tin. Ingredients (cake) 200g/7oz soft unsalted butter, plus some for greasing 200g/7oz caster sugar 200g/7oz ground almonds 100g/3½ oz fine polenta/cornmeal 1½ tsp baking powder (gluten-free if required) 3 free-range eggs 2 oranges, zested (save the juice for the syrup) Ingredients (syrup) 2 oranges, juiced (see [...]

Ingredients Serves 10 (at least!) 250g/9 oz plain flour 250g/9 oz caster sugar 1tsp ground cinnamon 1tsp bicarbonate of soda 3 eggs, beaten 7 fl oz sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing 100g/ 3.5 oz pecan nuts roughly chopped 375g/13 oz ripe bananas peeled weight. Mashed 85g/ 3oz canned crushed pineapple plus 4 tbsp juice [...]

Ingredients (cake) 400g peeled & grated parsnips Zest & juice of 3 limes Plus an extra 2 dessert spoons of lime juice 350g golden caster sugar 250g plain flour 2 tsp baking powder 2 tsp ground ginger 1 tsp salt 250ml sunflower oil 4 eggs 1 tsp vanilla essence 3 rounded dessert spoons glacé ginger [...]

This recipe was kindly sent in by Chris Holmes one of our Men Who Bake. Described by Chris as “a rather tasty carrot cake”  Ingredients 150g sunflower oil 100g soft light brown sugar 2 free range eggs 75g golden syrup 175g wholemeal self-raising flour 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground allspice 1/2 tsp ground [...]

Lisa Gair aka The Yummy Yank and a great Cake baker, came to our November event in Chapel Allerton and made a wonderful Sour Cream Coffee Cake. Check out her blog, see the recipe link below and a learn little bit more about what Lisa gets up to. Recipe for Sour Cream Coffee Cake  

This cake was made by Maggie Poppa for the Charity Event in Chapel Allerton in November 2011. Maggie used to own the very successful Georgian Tea Rooms behind the Corn Exchange in Leeds in the mid 1990′s Ingredients 12ozs Butter/margarine 12ozs Brown Sugar 4 Standard Eggs beaten 1lb 4ozs Self Raising Flour Pinch Salt 4 [...]

Lynn Hill – Elderflower Cordial Cake with white Chocolate Ganache made for Manchester event on 23rd November 2011 Makes 1 x 8ins cake Grease and line 2 x 8in cake tin Ingredients For the Cake 4 large eggs separated 190g Caster Sugar plus 40g 130g Self Raising Flour 2 tablespoons Elderflower Cordial For the Ganache [...]

This cake was made by Claire at the Manchester event on 16th November 2011 Serves about 16 Ingredients  For the cake:  4 ounces dark chocolate, chopped  6 tablespoons water  8 ounces unsalted butter, at room temperature  1 ¼ cup + ¼ cup sugar  4 large eggs, separated  2 cups all-purpose flour  1 teaspoon baking powder [...]