baking Archives - Yellow Days

Apple and Cranberry Chelsea Buns

Cat Parrott — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 16:16:07 +0000

I’m joining in with the Great Blogger Bake Off again this week. The theme is bread so I had attempted the ‘technical challenge’ of English muffins but I rolled out the dough a bit too thin and ended up with sort of flat bready pancakes so a second bake was definitely in order. Hubs is […]

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More Baking Help From Sainsbury’s (and a chance to win a bread mix)

Cat Parrott — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:31:25 +0000

I recently blogged about how much I had liked trying out Sainbury’s cupcake and macaron kits and this week I’ve had a go at making ciabatta rolls with their new bread mix for ciabatta and focaccia. The mix can be used in a bread maker but I set to work with my trusty mixer and […]

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How to Make Simple Traditional Welshcakes You’ll Love

Cat — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:40:24 +0000

Today: How to make Welsh Cakes. My favourite recipe for fabulous Welshcakes. They’re traditional, super simple to make and absolutely delicious. Until I moved to Cardiff 10 years ago I’d never had a welshcake. Now I adore them! If you haven’t tried one I’d describe them as a cross between a scone and a biscuit […]

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Chocolate Whoopie Pie Recipe – Easy and tasty!

Cat Parrott — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:44:37 +0000

I’m choosing happiness this year and one way I can guarantee it, at least for a little while, is baking something tasty. I am declaring this the year of the whoopie pie. They are a dense, moist cross between a cake and a cookie and you can let your imagination run wild with flavours and fillings. […]

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Savoury Halloween Cheese Biscuits

Cat Parrott — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:24:07 +0000

Today – Savoury Cheese Biscuits – The perfect quick and easy bake E’s favourite part of baking is when he get to roll something out and use the shape cutters so he was very enthusiastic to help with these pumpkin shaped, flaky cheese biscuits. I’ve been making cheese biscuits for years but to stick with the […]

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How to bake the best Apple and Mincemeat Pie

Cat — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:24:28 +0000

Today – How to bake the best Apple and Mincemeat Pie, a quick and foolproof recipe Even though I love baking I don’t normally make pastry. I can knock out some tasty cupcakes, a pretty good sponge and even some passable scones but pastry can be a bit fiddly and doesn’t always turn out great. I decided to brave […]

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Making Shortbread in the Real World

Cat — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:18:14 +0000

Now the summer holidays are upon us what could be nicer, I thought to myself yesterday, than to attempt a spot of baking with three year old E. Shortbread is pretty simple, isn’t it? We’ll give that a go.I’d popped on to the BBC website, which is always my first stop for spontaneous cooking, and […]

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So why Yellow Days?

Cat — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:29:25 +0000

Life with small children often seems like one long ‘To Do’ list. You feed and dress and wash and tidy and shop and entertain and cook. Not that any of these tasks are particularly arduous, it’s what we signed up for after all. It’s just that the list seems to expand to fill the available time leaving no […]

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