Chocolate Chip Orange Cake

Chocolate and Orange are perfect flavours when baking cakes and never more so than in this recipe for Chocolate Chip Orange Cake. Chunks of good quality chocolate lace the moist orange sponge. This Chocolate Chip Orange Cake is reminiscent of when you bake with marmalade only this time you use a whole raw orange!

Chocolate Chip Orange Cake
Chocolate Chip Orange Cake

Read on for my recipe…

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Cinnamon Buns

It has taken quite a while for me to get up the courage to make Cinnamon Buns. Don’t get me wrong I love eating Cinnamon Buns but dough is my

Cinnamon Buns
Cinnamon Buns

nemesis. Back in secondary school our bread lesson in Home Economics was interrupted by a fire alarm and all our hard work was ruined. I went home with wholemeal cannon balls rather than bread rolls. Continue reading “Cinnamon Buns”

Moroccan Orange & Almond Cake

This recipe for Moroccan Orange & Almond Cake comes from a 2010 book called Everyday Baking. I flicked through it one day in a cheapy bookshop, liked

Moroccan Orange & Almond Cake
Moroccan Orange & Almond Cake

the look of some of the recipes and bought it for £4.99. Until this day it has sat on my bookshelf unused. So I have picked a the Moroccan Orange & Almond Cake recipe for my Cookbook Challenge. Continue reading “Moroccan Orange & Almond Cake”

Hairy Bikers Somerset Chicken

This weeks Cookbook Challenge comes courtesy of the Hairy Bikers. In 2009

Hairy Bikers Somerset Chicken
Hairy Bikers Somerset Chicken

the Hairy Bikers presented a cookery show where they toured Britain and cooked up dishes using local recipes and ingredients. I bought the accompanying book and have made a couple of the recipes religiously. However my cookbook challenge gives me the incentive to try something new so today it is Somerset Chicken. Continue reading “Hairy Bikers Somerset Chicken”