This is not the cheesecake I learnt to bake at my mother’s knee.  That cheesecake is a light and fluffy, lemonscented confection.  This cheesecake is heavier, richer, chocolatey-er, and easier to bake.  I have been making it a lot at the deli recently and as it has been so well received we keep baking it.  [...]

2 Comments »

This mix will make 12 muffins, or six bounteous buxom beauties like these.
Butter and flour your muffin tins.
Sieve:
4 cups flour
8 Tbspns flat baking powder
1 teaspoon mustard powder
A good pinch of flavoured or Maldon sea salt and some fresh black pepper.
Add 100g butter and blend with your fingertips until crumbly.
Mix 1 ½ cups of grated cheddar [...]

1 Comment »

 
For the sponge (you can skip this bit and use Ladie’s fingers or Boudoir biscuits instead)
In a food processor put:

125g butter
125g caster sugar
2 large free range eggs
125g selfraising flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla sugar

Process until it comes together then add:

2-3 Tablespoons of milk and pulse until smooth.

Pour the batter into a buttered and floured square tin and [...]

2 Comments »

I am fairly certain I have posted the recipe for choux pastry before, but when my blog went down I lost all the tags and links.  Being the highly organised person that I am I have only redone about six weeks worth so find it easier to repost a choux pastry recipe at this point.
Preheat [...]

No Comments »