RAW Baking

For mums birthday we gave a holiday to the donkey sanctuary so it seems very appropriate to make a cake with a donkey on the top!

This is my all time favourite winter dessert! Sticky Toffee Pudding (aka STP) with lashings of custard. I used Nigella Lawson's recipe, which is easy to follow and always successful to date. The last portion which I gave to my mum! The Cream Tea Birder Chris Townend

No butter, sugar or eggs. This fruit cake uses dates, mixed fruit and ground almonds. It is very moist and tasty. This one I baked today is slightly overdone but still tastes good.  Have a go at baking it yourself . Look under my recipe section `Guilt free easy peasy fruit cake.'

Boxing Day at the Dingain household was the venue for the third Dingain-Walls Christmas Cake-off - where Rachel 'RAW Baker' Walls battles it out with with Patricia 'I make one Christmas cake for everyone else and another one for me' Dingain, for baker of the best home-made Christmas cake. These two legendary bakers are usually very good friends, but with one win each to date, the gloves were set to come off for this year's competition. This year there were four judges this year - Stacy and Phill Dunkley joining John and Lee Dingain. Each cake was graded using the same criteria as last year - rating the presentation, icing and marzipan and fruit cake as either crap, poor, average, very good or the nuts. In the interest of fairness, cake samples were given to the judges labelled A and B - very serious stuff this competition! Judge John Dingain Judge Stacy Dunkley As with the last two years, both cakes were baked to an exceptionally high standard...

I made my first Christmas pudding this year, using rum bought from Goa earlier this year. I was really pleased with the results as you can see form this photo! It was worth the 14 hours it took to steam in the slow cooker. It lit up marvellously and tasted very good. You cannot make beat a home-made pudding. Rawbaking Christmas pudding

  Order your Christmas Bag- £6 each  Butter shortbread 1. Snow Flecked Brownies. A best seller. Dark chocolate, fudge style brownies filled with white chocolate chippings. 2. Butter Shortbread. Butter shortbread sprinkled with sugar and topped with glitter. 3. Fruity Flapjacks. Delicious flapjacks, bursting with mixed fruit. 4. The Triple R - Rachels Rocky Road.   My favourite! A sticky chocolate base mixed with shortbread biscuit and stuffed with marshmallows. 5. Chocolate ginger slab. Chocolate filled with crystallised ginger pieces. 6. Xmas Jammy dodgers. Biscuit filled with jam and sprinkled with icing sugar. 7. White chocolate & cranberry fudge.  Velvety Smooth white chocolate fudge filled with tasty cranberries. Email Rachel at rawbaking@gmail.com with your order!

Using my popular `Triple R' (rachel's rocky road) recipe I used a skull mould to make a Halloween special. A rocky road skeleton skull.