Claire’s miniature chocolate and cherry cakes

In case you’re curious, here’s a breakdown of how many recipes I have left: Biscuits and traybakes: 3 Bread: 4 Cake: 4 Sweet pastry and patisserie: 2 Savoury: 3 Puddings and desserts: 3 Throughout this baking adventure, I’ve been trying to keep them more or less even so I’m not left with, say, all savoury…

Richard’s Black Forest chocolate fondants

It’s been about a month since I last baked for this blog. Everything slows down in times of COVID, it seems. The reason I chose this bake is because cherries are finally in season! I’ve been waiting to do this one justice until I could get delicious local cherries. Before I go into the details…

Morello cherry Bakewell

Another day, another bake. This time it’s one I can share with people at work. A huge sacrifice on their part, as you can imagine. This bake is in the section immediately following the cakes. What is that section, you ask? Sweet pastry and patisserie. Pay attention, already. I still have nine recipes left in…

Mary’s cherry cake

I guess the same way Paul is king of the breads, Mary seems to be queen of the cakes. I know it’s been a few weeks since I last baked-and-blogged, but it’s actually only been two days since my last bake (snickerdoodles) and five days since my second-to-last bake (sourdough). I just haven’t talked about…

Paul’s chocolate and cherry loaf

I started this bake assuming this post would end up being as boring as the scones. The recipe is short, the dough apparently comes together quickly and, with only a couple of rising times, a loaf happens. Well, that assumption was terribly, terribly wrong. This turned out to be the grossest bake yet. But I’m…

Cherry and almond Battenberg cake

I am too casual about this bake. Probably because it’s my third in four days. This is my first three-spoon recipe and I’m pretty blasé about it. I blame Mondays, amiright? Where to start. Well step one is preheating the oven and I didn’t do that. Pre-step one was gathering the ingredients which I did…