Cake of the Week
Cake of the Week: Customer’s Choice!
Gorgeous, amazing cake photography courtesy of whatkatieate As anyone who has been to Plaisir on a Saturday will know, I like baking. Cake of the Week was dreamed up in the heady days prior to us opening our little shop, as a way to do something nice for our customers whilst letting me indulge my [...]
Chocolate Fudge Cake!
So, what remains of this week’s Cake of the Week is lying in tatters on its cake stand, having been mercilessly munched by a succession of hungry customers. Chocolate fudge cake, it seems, is irresistible to many, and this is a really good recipe by the queen of indulgence herself, Nigella Lawson. I had to [...]
Wholemeal Honey and Almond Cake
This week’s Cake of the Week is another old favourite of mine. I really need to become more adventurous in my baking and try something new, but it’s been a busy few weeks and I’m afraid I’ve been all too happy to rely on easy, well-worn recipes. It’s a good one though! First things first: [...]
Lemon Cake with Fresh Cream and Lemon Curd
This is an old favourite of mine, and one that I actually blogged about on our very first blog – awfully primitive compared to this spangly all-singing all-dancing one. Therefore, as it’s very sunny outside and I want to go and bask, I am copying and pasting the old post from there to here. Lazy? [...]
Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies!
Firstly I must apologise for not posting a Cake of the Week recipe for a while. My excuses are varied and wide ranging, from not being able to take a decent photo of the last couple of cakes, to a stag weekend getting in the way! Anyway, here’s this weeks, and it’s really tasty – [...]
Scones for a sunny weekend
Clare suggested that as it was a bright, sunny summer-like day today, I should make little bite-size scones for Cake of the Week. That’ll have nothing to do with the fact that she’s a total Scone-Hog then, and can generally sniff one out at 100 paces – much like a great white shark can sense [...]
Maple and Pecan Cake. Yum.
Here’s the recipe for today’s Cake of the Week. It’s pretty darn good too, if I say so myself, and very easy indeed! Next time I make it, I’m going to see if I can incorporate bacon somehow. As anyone who’s eaten bacon with maple syrup will know, it’s a dreamlike combination! And for anyone [...]
jam thumb prints recipe
Sometimes baking is all about comfort. I love rich, dark chocolate extravaganzas as much – if not more – than the next man, but sometimes what’s needed is a tasty thing that’s very easy to bake, and made to mindlessly munch with a steaming hot cup of tea. These little fellows fit that brief perfectly. [...]
Amazing Chocolate Cake!
This cake has gone down a storm in the shop today – rather a shame as I was looking forward to having a nice fat slice with a cup of tea when I got home. Ah, well. It’s slightly unusual in that it doesn’t contain any flour, or any of the usual flour substitutes like [...]
