March 2013

Sweet Corn and Bacon Macarons

Yesterday was ‘Macaron Day’. I was informed of this by my Sister who loved my last attempt at macarons. She recently bought me a macaron book which includes a section with savoury options. I decided to surprise her by making some with her favourite ingredient, sweet corn (I once even made her a sweet corn cake). Sweet corn and bacon is one of our family’s favourite combinations; we have it in

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Salted Caramel Eclairs

This morning I went to the On Cookery School to learn how to make salted caramel eclairs. Choux pastry and salted caramel are two very cool things I’ve been wanting to learn how to do for a long time.  The morning was a great balance between demonstrations and hands on learning within a small class. Our teacher Loretta Liu was brilliant, she clearly has a lifetime of skills and knowledge in the kitchen but was patient, calm and still managed to be funny. We began by

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Kleicha

Ok, so you may have never heard of these before. That’s cool. I’ve only just learnt how to spell it, and even now I’m not sure it’s right. These delicious little parcels are something that my Grandy has been making since I can remember, so I asked her to teach me how to make them. They are a Middle Eastern sweet treat that come in all sorts of shapes with

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Happy Birthday Sharon

Everyone should be provided with cake on their birthday. Fact. These cupcakes are for our lovely friend Sharon to celebrate her birthday today. I wanted to make her something pretty with a bit of sparkle. I made vanilla cupcakes and topped them

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