Amma usually made a cake for our birthdays-mostly a vanilla sponge cake with butter cream icing topped with ‘hundred and thousands beads’. In keeping with this ‘tradition’ November is a month of cake! With four people in my life having a birthday this month, equals a cake every week! This […]
Baking
Shortbread Biscuit Recipe
Shortbread is one of the simplest biscuits to make –requiring just 3 basic ingredients- flour, butter and sugar…perfect for Diwali baking on a budget! Although the dough is basic-with a few additions like spice and fruit you can create several variations to form different flavours- even colour biscuits- to impress […]
Cookie Press Dough Recipe
Cookies made from a Cookie Press (biscuit cutter) is often known as Pressed Cookies or Spritz Cookies. The latter is the term used in both the U.S and in Germany. A term derived from the action of the cookie press- ‘das Spritzen’ (meaning to inject/squirt)- hence the dough for a […]
How To Make Chelsea Buns
Chelsea buns are quite similar to sticky buns, cinnamon rolls or cinnamon buns (in the U.S and Sweden), with the addition of sultanas in it’s cinnamony center. The consistency of the South African chelsea bun also differs from cinnamon buns. It is not pastry like but rather more like soft […]