By Val | It’s a Cake Life
Fruit and Cake Combinations January is typically the time when a lot of people are trying to eat more healthily after the excesses of the festive period. It always seems like the month of doing without. You do without going out as payday is still a long way off, you are doing with alcohol as […]
want more?By Val | Nuts and Bolts of Baking
Have you ever picked up a recipe, bought the ingredients and then gone to make the cake and not really understand what you are meant to do? You are not alone, some terms can be quite confusing but today I will explain exactly what you should be doing with these 5 basic terms that you […]
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Butter Substitutes for Vegan and Dairy Free Baking The butter substitute you love on your toast is not going to be the best one to use in your cakes. But I love the flavour of it, I hear you cry. Pull up a chair and let’s talk about butter substitutes, and I will explain why […]
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Piece of Cake Easy Bake Gluten Free or Vegan Cake mixes. I get told so many stories on our market of free-from baking fails, I hear all about your dry and crumbly cakes as well as your heavy dense ones, not forgetting the ones that dont rise at all. These are the stories from those […]
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Do you know your Mothers Day from your Mothering Sunday? People often use the two terms interchangeablly without realising they are actually refering to two different days. Here in the United Kingdom we celebrate Mothering Sunday, despite all the retails giants saying otherwise in their advertising. Mothers Day is what is celebrated in the United […]
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