Showing posts with label homemade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homemade. Show all posts
Monday, 29 September 2014
Sunday, 6 April 2014
Homemade Rhubarb Jam
So the 1st thing ready from my veg patch was lots and lots of rhubarb, so after trying rhubarb crumble and rhubarb muffins, I still had plenty left. A quick google search lead to an easy rhubarb recipe courtesy of allotment heaven. The only thing I did differently was to add a chopped up apple to put some pectin in, because apparently rhubarb doesn't contain much pectin and that's what helps jam set. Turns out it didn't make a blind bit of difference - the jam was still runny. I tried it the second it cooled and it pretty much just tasted of sugar, but when I left it a few days it tasted of deliciously sweet rhubarb. The plan is now to get some ice cream and smother it in runny jam!
Monday, 31 March 2014
Carrot Cake
It was recently my dad's birthday and him being a keen gardener I decided to make him a carrot-shaped carrot cake, complete with carrot root fly. My second ever attempt with fondant icing - which came out much better than my 1st go. I made the carrot cake using a muffin recipe from this Cupcakes & Muffins
book, though minus the walnuts because they remind me of brains and I don't like the taste. While the cake was cooking I made a very easy version of fondant icing by chucking some icing sugar and egg whites in a bowl, mixing them together then adding some glycerin. To make the orange part I put Wilton Icing Color Orange
in the icing and kneaded it in until I got the colour I wanted. For the green i used Wilton Leaf Green Colouring. - I like using the Wilton brand. It colours well and doesn't have a taste.
The first time I rolled out fondant icing it kept sticking to the rolling pin and the chopping board I was rolling it on. A friend suggested using clingfilm, I didn't have any to hand so used greaseproof paper with good results. After a bit of fiddling getting the fondant onto the cake, I used a baking wheel roller to make the leaf like fronds at the top of the carrot then dusted it with Rainbow Dust Metallic Paint Dark Gold
. My skills don't yet extend to sculpting so I used this mold
to make the fly out of white chocolate.
It ended up tasting really nice.
book, though minus the walnuts because they remind me of brains and I don't like the taste. While the cake was cooking I made a very easy version of fondant icing by chucking some icing sugar and egg whites in a bowl, mixing them together then adding some glycerin. To make the orange part I put Wilton Icing Color Orange in the icing and kneaded it in until I got the colour I wanted. For the green i used Wilton Leaf Green Colouring. - I like using the Wilton brand. It colours well and doesn't have a taste.The first time I rolled out fondant icing it kept sticking to the rolling pin and the chopping board I was rolling it on. A friend suggested using clingfilm, I didn't have any to hand so used greaseproof paper with good results. After a bit of fiddling getting the fondant onto the cake, I used a baking wheel roller to make the leaf like fronds at the top of the carrot then dusted it with Rainbow Dust Metallic Paint Dark Gold
. My skills don't yet extend to sculpting so I used this mold to make the fly out of white chocolate.It ended up tasting really nice.
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