It’s that time of year again, GBBO is back. We were initially worried that the new series would be different and it wouldn’t be the same, but after week one it’s safe to say we miss Mary B, but the wonderful Noel Fielding makes up for all the sadness and it’s honestly not that different. […]
We put chorizo inside of sausage rolls, obviously it’s going to be great! Sausage rolls are great – they’re easy to put together, can be prepared in advance and they’re a real crowd pleaser! There’s something great about having people round and pulling a tray of sizzling hot sausage rolls out of the oven for […]
One again, we are back with another millionaires shortbread recipe. This time we are putting a twist on the banoffee pie, using bananas with our salted caramel Layers of butter biscuit base, using digestive biscuits instead of shortbread like you would with a banoffee pie or our s’mores millionaires, topped with a layer of sliced […]
Poached pears with chocolate sauce are a great combo so why not just bake poached pear inside a chocolate cake?! Oh and then pour chocolate sauce all over it of course… Soft pear encased in soft chocolate sponge and then smothered in thick warm chocolate sauce? It’s pretty much the perfect pudding! This is ideal […]
Summer sun calls for fresh and fruity cocktails so when the sun appeared this afternoon after a fairly rainy week or 2 we whipped up this pear and ginger summer crush! Originally we were going to make a mojito, but as we were making a chocolate and pear loaf cake at the same time, we […]
It’s Fri-yay and we are once again bringing in a Cadbury Creme Egg Bake! Today is another recipe from Rinkoff bakery and Cadbury’s collab, and we have saved the best for last. Creme Egg S’mores Brownies… Following on from our Passionfruit Creme Egg Meringues and Creme Egg Eclairs we have bought to you our favourite […]
With Easter coming up we had to do a Hot Cross bun recipe and these ones are so easy there’s no reason not to whip up a batch!! So yes, yes, we did a traditional hot cross bun recipe last year. But when we got our hands on this Panasonic bread maker from ao.com and discovered […]
You may have seen in our last post, these creme egg and passionfruit meringue nests, we were trying our hand at a recipe created by Rinkoff in collaboration with Cadbury, well today we’re bringing you another one with these creme egg eclairs. Choux pastry is something we both enjoy to make and in fact chocolate […]
So you all know by now how we feel about creme eggs by now… so when the chocolate gods themselves reached out to us and asked if we wanted to try our hand at their new Easter recipes it was a no-brainer. So it turns out that Cadbury have teamed up with Rinkoff, whose creme […]
What’s better than a classic apple crumble? When you add cake into the mix of course! And caramel… and custard… and ginger… We created this recipe alongside HelloFresh as part of their blog post about apple crumble recipes with a twist, make sure you check it out! And make sure to have a read of […]
Everyone stay calm, but it’s finally pancake day! Is it just us or does shrove Tuesday appear on the horizon at the beginning of the year bringing the hope of spring and Easter chocolate?! This year for this momentous occasion we decided to take our Fluffy American Pancake recipe to a new level and made […]
Looking for something to use up your leftovers for Christmas Dinner? Reheating everything for a second meal is all well and good and just as tasty, but it’s repetitive and boring. We have decided to make a super quick and easy way to use up some of the leftovers, in the glorious form of a […]
A great layer cake for the festive period with christmassy flavours! We made this as an alternative to a traditional christmas cake. Now we’ve already established that we, here at Baking a Mess, don’t like christmas cake, we’ve got nothing against it.. just isn’t our thing. So last year we made an orange and cinnamon […]
Tis the season… and who doesn’t love a mince pie? This year we decided to do something a little different to the traditional pastry and mincemeat and turned it into a gooey iced bun. We already posted a mince pie recipe last year with our own homemade mincemeat with added cranberries for extra flavour. Making […]
As 2016 is drawing to a close and this is our 100th post on the blog, it seemed fitting for us to take a second and reflect back on the journey so far. It’s safe to say when we started we never thought the blog would end up being so important to us, although it’s […]
So shortbread is good, and cheese is good, so parmesan shortbread is really good… These biscuits are so unbelievably moreish (actually we can believe it) the parmesan is the perfect amount of salty, making it exactly the right cheese to go into a shortbread! The recipe calls for the addition of cayenne pepper which adds […]
It’s no secret we’re big fans of millionaires shortbread, so we couldn’t let christmas slip by without doing a festive take on the traybake! We’ve done them before (quite a few times before), millionaires shortbread is one of our favourite bakes. We’ve had creme egg, we’ve had oreo, we’ve had s’mores, we’ve had peanut butter, […]
Chutneys are essential at christmas when there’s cheese everywhere you look (or at least there should be) so we made a batch of spiced pear chutney! This spiced chutney is perfect for christmas as it has all the traditionally festive spices. We love making chutneys and other preserves during the winter as we find any […]
A bundt cake just says christmas to us, so what can be more festive than a mulled wine bundt cake?! Any keen readers of the blog may notice this cake looks pretty similar to a bundt cake we did as part of our GBBO 2016 series, this yummy pink grapefruit drizzle. It was entirely unintentional, […]
Grapefruit is one of our favourite flavours to work with, it’s sweet, sour and delicious. We’ve made lemon curd, passionfruit curd and even lime curd in the past but grapefruit curd is something we have been wanting to try and isn’t something you come across that often. This recipe was used to make our Pomegranate, […]
So here it is, the last of our Great British Bake Off bakes! We love working with meringue so jumped at the chance to create this 4 layered fruity pavlova. As soon as we saw the signature challenge of the final we knew it was something we wanted to take on. And then the technical […]
A little late with our bake from the semi final of the bake off (seeing as the final has sadly been and gone already!) but these palmiers are worth the wait! We chose to fill ours with some parma ham, extra mature cheddar and wholegrain mustard! So even though the final has actually happened, we’d like […]
A delicious tart with gooey camembert and spicy chorizo, inspired by our love of baked camembert (and chorizo). This tart is essentially a quiche, which we feel is a typically summery dish, but we feel that the smoky flavours make it more appropriate for these autumnal months. We added hot smoked paprika and some thyme […]
In our humble opinion, the filling of these is so divine it should be worshipped… But when you’re working with the flavour combination of pistachio and salted caramel it’s obviously going to taste delicious. These are probably our all time favourite macarons (not that we like to play favourites…) You literally can’t go wrong with […]
