Queen of Sheba Cake

I decided to try something different today. In our family, we usually have a dessert on Saturday evenings and there's nothing better than baking up a treat on a Saturday afternoon. I saw a recipe a few weeks ago from a Sunday magazine and thought I'd give it a go. It's called the Queen of Sheba cake for whatever reason (I have absolutely no idea why!) and looking online, I found out it was originally a Julia Childs recipe. So here's my take on the Queen's chocolate cake and it turned out pretty pretty pretty nice.

Chocolate chunk muffins

Now normally I'm not a big muffin-type of girl but I had some cooking chocolate that had been sitting in the cupboard a while and I had an event I needed to bring cake to so I thought why not? Let's try making some simple chocolate chunk muffins.

Simple Choux Pastry

Another rainy Sunday afternoon in England and with some left over fresh custard, I decided it might be a good time to attempt a batch of choux pastry puffs. I had always heard that choux pastry was a difficult recipe to master and easy to get wrong so I was a bit nervous. 

Following a recipe in one of my mum's worn-out Japanese cookbooks, I whipped up a bunch of light and crispy choux pastry puffs in next to no time.

Mascarpone and Brown Sugar Scones

I had some leftover mascarpone cheese after using some in a pasta bake recipe and I decided to scour the internet for ideas on how to use it up. I came across a recipe for mascarpone and brown sugar scones that sounded delicious and easy so I thought I'd give it a shot. This is originally a recipe from Lorraine Pascale's Baking Made Easy.