After many years in the wilderness, trying and failing to make red velvet anything, I thought I had succeeded thanks to a bake at home kit from Crumbs and Doilies!
I’m not kidding when I say I’ve tried to make various red velvet bakes about 100 times. Well, ok, 5 times. And every time, EVERY TIME, the bakes aren’t red. No matter which method I use, which recipe I use, which food colouring I use, I just get brown red velvet cakes. And brown red velvet cakes are a problem because they’re not red, and ergo can’t possibly count as red velvet cakes.
Here we are once again with the delectable Cadbury’s ‘Simply Chocolate’ cookbook. You may recall I’m continuing to test this book because the recipes are so easy and I wondered if it’s me picking easy ones, or if they really are easy.
When browsing through my phone the other day, I found a load of pictures of things I’ve made when I’ve been on baking courses.
When I turned 30, I went to Devon on a week-long patisserie course at the Ashburton Cookery School.
Well today we’ve opened up the old Cadbury’s cookbook again. Last time I did that was for World Chocolate Day and I made the chocolate covered gingerbread from the front cover of the book.
Well who even knew potato scones were a thing? Mary Berry did, that’s who.
I have a lovely book, part history and part cookbook, called Tea Fit for a Queen. I love the Queen, so this was a wonderful and very appropriate birthday present from a lovely friend one year.
Now it’s World Chocolate Day on July 7th, so I thought it would only be right to crack open a Cadbury cook book to celebrate.
Yes, you read that correctly.
One of my very dear friends gave me a cupcake book about 10 years ago, and I’m ashamed to say I haven’t made anything from it.