Author: Sami

Pandan Chiffon Cake

This is one of my all time favourite cakes, very light and full of flavour. When I found this recipe by Christine, I had to try it out – homemade is much nicer than the shop-bought version! The cake gets is green colouring from pandan leaves (the shop-bought ones tend to have artificial colouring to make it super green). Essentially it’s an angel food cake, except it’s flavoured with pandan rather than vanilla. Not all that difficult to make, as long as you get the egg whites right..  Continue reading “Pandan Chiffon Cake” →

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Chocolate Toothpaste Tart

What exactly is chocolate toothpaste tart I hear you ask? Well, it’s a school pudding, but judging on people’s reactions when I’ve spoken about it, it was only ever served in a few select areas of the country… It’s an oddly named pudding, but most likely named because it reflects the consistency of the chocolate “paste” in the tart. It was one of my favourite desserts at school, albeit, not particularly healthy (no wonder they stopped serving it, along with the turkey twizzlers!)  Continue reading “Chocolate Toothpaste Tart” →

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GBBO – Egg Custard Tarts

The Great British Bake Off is back! Ok, so it’s been on for a few weeks now and I still need to catch up on the latest episode but I thought I might try out a few of the bakes they do on the show and share them on here (success or not..)

First up, egg custard tarts from week 4. This was the technical challenge based on Paul Hollywood’s recipe, luckily for me, I was able to follow the entire recipe unlike the bakers in the tent! BBC Food have put up the recipe and instructions here.

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