This tart has apple puree and home grown plums on top and is a good way to use up extra fruit from summer.
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- Stewed plums on top
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- Boil the apples in honey to make the puree
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- Label for apple plum tart
17 Sep 2016
Apple and Plum Tart
11 Sep 2016
Ginger and Plum Cake
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If you’re lucky enough to have fruit trees, late summer is a great time to make fruit pie, fruit cake, jam, or all of the above. This spiced plum cake is like a pineapple upside down cake (tarte tatin), but with plums.
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- Slice of plum cake
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- Stewed plums on top
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- Label for plum and ginger cake
10 Sep 2016
Kiwi Cupcakes
Kiwis are a delicious summer fruit and an interesting variation to cupcakes. These have strawberry buttercream on top.
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- Sliced kiwi on top with strawberry buttercream
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- Finely chop the kiwis
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- Strawberry buttercream filling
27 Aug 2016
Gizzada
Somewhere between a pecan pie and a macaroon, Gizzada is a Jamaican coconut tart which has a spiced coconut and brown sugar filling on top of a pastry crust.
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- Spices coconut and brown sugar filling
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- Golden brown coconut filling with toasted flaked coconut on top
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- Label for gizzada
14 Aug 2016
Blueberry and Apple Pie
The atlantic crop of blueberries is in shops at this time of year (though I’ve never grown them at home), which are bigger than the smaller variety at other times of the year. Frozen are fine – they come out the same when used in pie. I mixed a bag of frozen blueberries with cooking apples and baked a pie with vanilla custard to go with it.
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- Blueberries and apples inside
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- Mini pies with lattice tops
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- Slice of the bigger pie
31 Jul 2016
Coconut & Ginger Bites
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Everyone loves things on sticks – lollipops, hot dogs, kebabs… cake is no exception. These cake pops are a light coconut and ginger sponge coated in white chocolate and sprinkled with desiccated coconut.
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- Chocolate and coconut coating
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- Plate of coconut and ginger bites
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- Label for coconut and ginger bites
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23 Jul 2016
Hawaiian Sunset Cupcakes
These sunset coloured cupcakes are flavoured with layers of pineapple, coconut and orange and an awesome chance to use cocktail umbrellas!
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- Sprinkle with desiccated coconut
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- Pineapple, coconut and orange layers
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- Stick a cocktail umbrella in each cupcake
17 Jul 2016
Eton Mess Meringue Cupcakes
After going overboard on sprinkles I ended up with (among others) a bag of mini meringues. With it being strawberry season, Eton Mess cupcakes seemed like a perfect use for them. These cupcakes have chunks of strawberries in and are filled and frosted with strawberry buttercream.
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- Eton Mess cupcakes
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- Mini meringues and raspberries
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- Finely chop the strawberries
16 Jul 2016
Magic Pistachio and Cherry Cake
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Magic cakes are a unique type of cake which form three distinct layers from one batter. They’re cooked at a lower temperature (150C/300F) which allows the layers to split out during baking. The base is a standard sponge, the middle forms a custard and the top is a Genoise sponge. These were studded with pistachios and had cherries on top, the with vanilla cream cheese frosting.
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- Cherries and custard in the middle
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- Chopped pistachios on top
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- Cherries and pistachios in the cake layer
10 Jul 2016
Toffee Swiss Roll
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A light swirl of cake filled with toffee filling. Swiss roll’s can be a hit and miss – this exact recipe worked perfectly for the cinnamon cream cheese swiss roll I made a couple of months ago, but this time cracked while rolling.
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- Toffee swirl inside
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- Roll up the log tightly after filling with toffee
