My love for Collies, Cakes, Cooking, Eating Out & Days Out.
A few months ago I found a recipe for a Maple Syrup Cake which turned out to be a disaster. The quantities, nor the method seemed correct but I ploughed ahead and baked a dreadful dry and sunken cake. So after a bit of experimentation I now have a recipe I have created for a delicious Maple Syrup, Orange & Pecan Cake with an orange buttercream filling. Even better, you can always swap the Pecans for Walnuts and it will be just as tasty!
My recipes for Chocolate Bundt Cakes have proven to be very popular. However there has been many calls for a smaller version to be made in sandwich tins. I’ve re-written and tested the recipe so it fits into 2 x 20cm/8inch round cake tins. This version is a Chocolate Orange Cake but you could swap the orange for 120g of fresh raspberries and make a Chocolate Raspberry Cake.
To boost the flavour of the Chocolate Orange Cake I used a 100g bar of 
Fairtrade Dark Orange Chocolate from the Co-op topped up to 50g with Callebaut 54% Dark Chocolate Callets. This combination gives a rich chocolate flavour without being too bitter. I also used Yorkshire Rapeseed Oil but this can be substituted for any rapeseed, sunflower or vegetable oil.
Surprisingly I have never had a slice of Hummingbird Cake when I have been out for Coffee and Cake. Mainly because what was on offer had dessicated coconut in it and I’m not a lover of coconut. Most recipes I looked at for Hummingbird Cake didn’t include coconut anyway, so I’ve put that down to a personal preference on behalf of the baker. However they all included some
fabulous tropical fruits, mango, passion fruit, banana, orange and pineapple.
So here is my take on Hummingbird cake. It’s big, but totally worth it especially as we have all Bank Holiday weekend to enjoy it!
As it is my birthday this week my hubby said he would bake me a cake instead
of me baking one. Not going to argue with that! After a bit of mooching through some recipes we found the perfect one. From the book Scandinavian Baking by Trine Hahnemann, Honey Cake with Orange Buttercream. This is a book we’ve had a while but not yet tried a recipe from but this one has a lot of my favourite flavours in it. So whilst hubby baked I was snapping photos so I can share this bake and recipe with you. Continue reading “Honey Cake with Orange Buttercream”
This recipe for Orange Olive Oil Cake was inspired by Twitter and my recent purchase of a 12 Mini Bundt Cake tin from Lakeland. The recipe has been adapted from one shared with me by a Twitter friend in Portugal and the original recipe by Leite’s Culinaria can be found here. Made with navel oranges and fruity olive oil the cake has a deep, rich orange flavour.
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!
Read on for my recipe…
I love a good moist chocolate cake but how many times do you bite into a slice
that looks moist but ends up being quite dry and crumbly. I’ve been researching Chocolate Cakes for quite a while now and think that this recipe for Chocolate Orange Bundt Cake ticks all the boxes. Rich, moist, flavoursome and most importantly delicious. So dust off your Bundt tins and give it a try. Although this recipe uses a 23 cm Bundt tin, you can split the mixture into two 23cm cake tins, cook for less time (approx 30/35 minutes) and then sandwich them together. Continue reading “Chocolate Orange Bundt Cake”
When I was deciding what to bake this week a little voice from the neighbouring room asked if requests could be made. I stuck my head round my husband’s office door and he said “something orangey”. So here we are a moist yet light Orange & Lemon Layer Cake.
On 16th May I was invited to the Truffle Launch at Amelia’s Chocolate in 
Scarborough. Amelia opened her shop in 2013 is always reinventing her products, workshops and chocolate parties. Now Amelia has branched out into the luxury market with Continue reading “Truffle Launch at Amelia’s Chocolate”