Back in the days, before they had access to baking powder and baking soda, bakers had to be a bit more creative in how they were going to create light airy cakes and sponges. They couldn’t use the chemical reactions that make gas in a baking powder. Besides using yeast, …
We’ve been making bread for thousands of years, using flour, water and in a lot of cases yeast. Yeast is what makes our breads light and fluffy, by producing carbon dioxide gas bubbles to make the dough rise. Without yeast, we would have been limited to flatbreads or tough lumps …
It’s bright red but slightly translucent, has a peculiar flavour, is full of sugar, keeps for a long time and used in typical British cakes. When using them in a cake, you should be cutting them in small pieces, rinse them and dust them with flour ensure they don’t sink …
We’ve discussed why you would use zucchini or carrots (even purple ones!) in a cake as well as how you can use corn starch powder instead of eggs. Of course there’s plenty more interesting variations to make, what about using sour cream for instance? We recently made a new recipe from …
We are facing a zucchini overload. Our two courgette plants have been giving us a new courgette at least twice a week. As a result, we’ve been eating a lot of courgette. So much so that we just didn’t feel like them anymore. After giving some away, preparing to make …
A lot of ‘western’ recipes for cakes, cookies and pies contain eggs. But if you don’t eat eggs, no matter the reason, that can be quite a challenge. In most recipes you can’t just leave out the eggs. Eggs tends to have several roles in the recipe and thus will …
A (presumably Dutch) ‘joke’ on carrot cake: A rabbit enters a bakery and asks the owner, ‘do you also sell carrot cake’? The owner said he didn’t so the rabbit left. The next day the rabbit came over again and asked the same question. The baker again mentioned he didn’t …
Carrots are orange, aren’t they? No, not necessarily! Purple and yellow carrots are a relatively new variation of carrots in our supermarket (at least in my perception, until I found out it’s actually the purple ones that were there before the orange ones). Most supermarkets still only sell the orange …
