Cakes, some healthy, some not, all delicious
My son is mad on Minecraft and asked for a ‘Creeper’ cake for his birthday, here’s the recipe, the instructions are on YouTube. This took me 2 full days to make, it’s not difficult, just labour intensive as making and sticking on all the ‘pixellations’ takes a long time.
Simnel cakes are traditionally given on Mothering Sunday. If you don’t have a mini loaf tin you can use muffin cases. The icing uses freshly squeezed orange juice and gives a pale yellow icing, if Blood or Blush Oranges are in season these will give you a pale pink icing. Source the edible flowers carefully…
These are amazing cakes that look just like a pot plant, they will fool anyone, just remember that the flower doesn’t have any water in it so put it into the tube at the last minute, do NOT eat the flower or the pot! You can buy the flower tubes from a florist and you…
A low fat and sugar free version of classic muffins with half wholemeal flour making them slightly healthier too. Ripe bananas and agave nectar replace the sugar to add sweetness.
Low fat version of classic muffins with half wholemeal flour to make them slightly more healthy too. There is no butter or oil in this recipe so the end result can stick to the muffin cases a little, bake in silicone to avoid that. If you can’t get hold of quark increase the skimmed milk…
These cupcakes have oranges and sweet potatoes in them so it makes them slightly healthier than standard cupcakes. If blood oranges are season this gives lovely pale pink icing and lots of ‘ooohs and ahhhs’ from children. Omit the walnuts for people with food allergies or who dislike them. These are my 11 year old…
This is made using the whisking method, it’s lower in fat than normal sponges as there is no added butter, until you come to the buttercream topping so don’t kid yourself that it’s in any way healthier or low in fat, it isn’t, at all, no way.
Just like the Crunchy bars you can buy. If you have time you could make the cinder toffee yourself.
