RAW Baking

This year's Christmas cake was one of my best yet. It smelt lovely and boozy - I had used Carribean rum given to me by a friend. The cake was just right, not too moist and cut slices very easily. The chillies i used to decorate together with rosemary from the garden were last minute decoration ideas!

A wonderful colleague, Mary-Ann who we shall all miss left work today after 10 years at Hastoe. I made her one of her favourites cakes. The classic coffee cake. 

Today at work, we enjoyed Blondies (filled with white chocolate and some peanut butter), Snow flecked brownies and Glitter shortbread. 

Today as it was wet and windy I made some mince pies. The pastry is made with ground almonds and uses egg yolk which gives it a nice and delicate texture.  Christmas is coming!!  

One of my favourites and a classic. Lemon Meringue Pie. Yum.

It’s that time of year again! Here’s my list of Xmas baking goodies. New for this year – White Chocolate Blondies. Crunchy peanut brownies style with white choc chips. RAW Baking Christmas Bag -£6.00 each 1. Snow Flecked Brownies. Everyone’s favourite! Dark chocolate, fudge style brownies filled with white chocolate chippings. 2. Butter Shortbread. Classic butter shortbread sprinkled with sugar and topped with glitter. 3. Classic Flapjacks. Delicious buttery flapjacks. Order plain or with chocolate chunks. 4. The Triple R - Rachels Rocky Road. A sticky chocolate base mixed with shortbread biscuit and stuffed with soft pieces of marshmallows. 5. Malteser Tiffin chocolate slab . Smooth chocolate base mixed with crunchy biscuits and topped with maltesers. 6. White Chocolate Blondies. A mix of peanuts with white choc chunks. Soft in the middle with crunchy edges.Also known as a white chocolate brownie. 7. Honeycomb and Peanut chocolate slab. A winning combinati...

One of my most popular baking goodies especially at Christmas time!

My classic Rocky Road with a Halloween twist! 

A chocolate cake, with chocolate butter icing and filled with rolos, minstrels and maltesers!  This is what my niece,  Tia asked for her 8th birthday.

This is the ultimate indulgence in the world of cakes. I absolutely love them. Highly calorific but truly delicious, I recommend one of these with a cup of coffee anyday (but not everyday!!). The mix of shortbread, with caramel oozing out when you bite into a slice topped with chocolate is so good.

For my nephew's 12th birthday I made a rainbow sponge cake with a cake topper of our family dog, Flapjack!

 A strange tradition having to take cakes into work when its your birthday but it gives me a chance to try out a new recipe or two! The passion fruit sponge as well as the Apple crumb cake were both very popular and both were new recipes so I was pleased! Passion fruit sponge cake Selection of birthday cakes!   Double chocolate sponge cake   Apple crumble cake

Another one of my many favourites. These slices of shortbread are perfect with a cup of tea. The shortbread is buttery and just melt in the mouth with a sip of tea!

A Triple chocolate cake.  For my brothers birthday, I made a moist chocolate sponge cake and filled it with tasty white chocolate frosting. I sprinkled caramac chocolate on the top. 

This is a cake for anyone with a sweet tooth who loves chocolate. It is filled and topped with shortbread biscuits and marshmallows as well as covered in fudge icing. The chocolate sponge is rich, moist and dark.

I really love blackberries and this year, there are loads to pick. It's been a good year for them with all the heat and sunshine. I picked a small batch on the way home form work and made some blackberry muffins.

Moana cupcakes are so pretty - topped with shells, sand, glitter and pearls.

I love Harry Potter and had great fun making these cupcakes with help from my sister in law.

A classic cake - a moist chocolate sponge using oil instead of butter , topped with chocolate fudge icing.  Chocolate birthday cake

Since I had bucket loads of plums from our garden, I found a really nice and easy Plum Crumble Tray bake recipe. It has a light sponge base, topped with a layer of plums and then a crumble topping to finish, I also added cinnamon to the plums - as I love a touch of a cinnamon. Here's the recipe  Plum crumble traybake recipe