Baking

Cute Easter Bake

Mini Egg Rocky Road

Perfect for Making with Little Ones

This cute little bake is great fun and simple to make with children. And it’s a huge hit with anyone who tastes it – young and old alike!

 

Mini Egg Rocky Road

  • Servings: 16 squares
  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 175 per portion
Fat 11g (6g sat) per portion
Suitable for vegetarians

Ingredients

  • Butter 110g (4oz)
  • Milk chocolate 110g (4oz), chopped
  • Digestive biscuits 110g (4oz)
  • Chocolate mini eggs 110g (4oz)
  • Mini marshmallows 110g (4oz)
  • Dried cranberries 25g (1oz)

Instructions

  1. Line an 18cm (7in) square baking tin with cling film.
  2. Place butter and chocolate in a large bowl and microwave for about 1 minute, until melted, checking frequently.
  3. Put biscuits and mini eggs into a strong polythene bag and bash with a rolling pin until broken up. Stir into chocolate with marshmallows and cranberries.
  4. Press into tin and refrigerate for at least an hour until firm. Remove from tin and cut into 16 squares.

A Dairy Diary recipe.

 

 

 

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Recipe of the Week: School Dinner Coconut Sponge Pudding

Coconut Spong Pudding

In a celebration of carefree school days, here is an absolutely gorgeous recipe for Coconut Sponge Pudding – it’s super-easy to make too!

‘School Dinner’ Coconut Sponge Pudding

Take a nostalgia trip back to school days with this Coconut Sponge Pudding recipe. It’s super-easy and speedy to make, and not to mention super tasty! A Dairy Diary recipe. For more delicious recipes visit the Dairy Diary Recipe Collection.

CLICK HERE FOR RECIPE

There are plenty more retro puddings in the classic Dairy Book of Home Cookery.

For more information click here.

School Puddings

A recent Facebook post regarding school puddings evoked a huge outpouring of nostalgia.


It would appear that, with the exception of sago or ‘frogspawn’, we Brits have a real affection for our fondly-remembered school puds.

The most popular are:

  • chocolate cornflake
  • chocolate cracknel with lurid strawberry or mint custard (my personal favourite!)
  • spotted dick
  • pink blancmange
  • chocolate or coconut sponge pudding

In a celebration of those carefree days, here is an absolutely gorgeous recipe for Coconut Sponge Pudding – it’s super-easy to make too!

Coconut Spong Pudding

‘School Dinner’ Coconut Sponge Pudding

Take a nostalgia trip back to school days with this Coconut Sponge Pudding recipe. It’s super-easy and speedy to make, and not to mention super tasty! A Dairy Diary recipe. For more delicious recipes visit the Dairy Diary Recipe Collection.

CLICK HERE FOR RECIPE

There are plenty more retro puddings in the classic Dairy Book of Home Cookery.

For more information click here.

Recipe of the Week: Coffee Sponge with Ginger Cream

 

A gorgeous but simple Mothering Sunday bake.

 

Coffee Sponge with Ginger Cream

Coffee Sponge with Ginger Cream

  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 491 per portion
Fat 37g (23g sat) per portion
Suitable for vegetarians
Suitable for freezing

Ingredients

  • Instant coffee 2 tsp
  • Unsalted butter 175g (6oz), softened
  • Caster sugar 175g (6oz)
  • Eggs 3, beaten
  • Self-raising flour 175g (6oz), sifted
  • Double cream 400ml (14fl oz)
  • Icing sugar 1 tbsp
  • Stem ginger in syrup 2 pieces, finely sliced
  • Blueberries and/or edible flowers to decorate (optional)

Instructions

  1. 1 Preheat oven to 180°C/160°fan/Gas 4. Grease and base-line two 18cm (7in) sandwich tins. Mix coffee with 1 tablespoon boiling water.
  2. In a large bowl, cream butter and caster sugar until fluffy.
  3. Beat in coffee and eggs, a little at a time. Fold in flour and then pour into tins.
  4. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until sponge springs back when lightly touched. Cool in tins for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
  5. Whip cream with icing sugar and1 tablespoon of syrup from ginger. Use half to sandwich cakes together. Spread remaining cream on top and decorate with ginger, blueberries and/or edible flowers. Chill until ready to serve.

 

A Dairy Diary recipe.

 

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#mothersday

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Mothering Sunday bake

An easy but decadent bake for Mothering Sunday

Every shop that you wander into will have made sure you know it’s Mothering Sunday this weekend, as there’s no end of signage everywhere badgering you to spend.

Mother’s Day can be met with mixed emotions as many cannot be with their own mum, for many different reasons.

Mums should be celebrated though. Parenting is one of the hardest, most challenging ‘jobs’ in the world and those who do it well deserve a big thank you.

This cake is really easy to
make but looks really pretty.

Bake it for a mum you know who deserves a treat. (You could also leave your Dairy Diary open at this page as a big hint to your children/other half!)

I’ll be making two this year – one for my own long-suffering mum, and one for my sister-in-law Jo, who’s a brilliant mum and who also recently lost her own mum.

 

Coffee Sponge with Ginger Cream

Coffee Sponge with Ginger Cream

  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 491 per portion
Fat 37g (23g sat) per portion
Suitable for vegetarians
Suitable for freezing

Ingredients

  • Instant coffee 2 tsp
  • Unsalted butter 175g (6oz), softened
  • Caster sugar 175g (6oz)
  • Eggs 3, beaten
  • Self-raising flour 175g (6oz), sifted
  • Double cream 400ml (14fl oz)
  • Icing sugar 1 tbsp
  • Stem ginger in syrup 2 pieces, finely sliced
  • Blueberries and/or edible flowers to decorate (optional)

Instructions

  1. 1 Preheat oven to 180°C/160°fan/Gas 4. Grease and base-line two 18cm (7in) sandwich tins. Mix coffee with 1 tablespoon boiling water.
  2. In a large bowl, cream butter and caster sugar until fluffy.
  3. Beat in coffee and eggs, a little at a time. Fold in flour and then pour into tins.
  4. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until sponge springs back when lightly touched. Cool in tins for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
  5. Whip cream with icing sugar and1 tablespoon of syrup from ginger. Use half to sandwich cakes together. Spread remaining cream on top and decorate with ginger, blueberries and/or edible flowers. Chill until ready to serve.

 

A Dairy Diary recipe.

 

#motheringsunday

#mothersday

#bakewithkindness

#cake

#tripletested

 

Forget Blue Monday – make today a peach one!

Today is supposed to be the gloomiest day of the year.

But let’s not dwell on that.

Yes, we’re all trying to ‘be good’ after Christmas, but just for today why not bake a yummy treat and take it to work or to a neighbour or a friend?

Share a slice of this scrummy Peachy Lemon Cake and have a chat with someone who you think may need a little cheering up.

Some kind words (and cake), can make all the difference….

This recipe is taken from the 2018 Dairy Diary, which is still available to purchase here.

 

Peachy Lemon Cake

 

Peachy Lemon Cake

  • Servings: 10
  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 285 per portion
Fat 17g (10g sat) per portion
Suitable for vegetarians
Suitable for freezing

Ingredients

  • Butter 175g (6oz), softened
  • Golden caster sugar 150g (5oz) plus extra for sprinkling
  • Lemons 2, finely grated zest only
  • Eggs 3 large
  • Plain flour 150g (5oz)
  • Baking powder 1 tsp
  • Plain yogurt 4 tbsp
  • Peaches 3, stoned and each cut into 8 wedges
  • Plain yogurt or crème fraîche to serve (optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C/160°fan/Gas 4. Line a 23cm (9in) cake tin with baking paper.
  2. Cream together butter, sugar and lemon zest until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in eggs then sift in flour and baking powder. Gently stir in yogurt.
  3. Spoon mixture into prepared tin and scatter peach wedges randomly on top, pressing them in a little. Bake for 1 hour until risen and golden. 4 Cool in tin for 10 minutes then cool on a rack. Refrigerate. 5 Sprinkle with sugar and serve with yogurt or crème fraîche.

 

A Dairy Diary recipe.

 

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#notbluemonday

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