Ms Maile's Afternoon Tea

My all time favourite cake is battenburg. Sweetened with sugar & almonds, moist with jam & marzipan. I can eat a whole cake by myself....

I found my first typo in the copy of 'The Best of Mrs Beeton's Afternoon Tea' - only took 37 recipes. Not bad, most recipe books I come...

This week I tackled one of the longest recipes in The Best of Mrs Beeton's Afternoon Tea. Not only that, but I made the sponge fingers...

When starting at a new job, I like to stack the odds in my favor. I'm discovering that bringing in baked goods in those first few weeks...

Last time I made Hazelnut Meringue Gateau, it went completely to waste as we had noone to eat the meringue on the day and it went...

After an exhusting week and a rude early awakening by builders, this weeks bake needed to be easy. I've been making marble cake since I...

A busy weekend left me short on time to bake this week. So I whipped up a hazelnut meringue gateau from the Best of Mrs Beeton's...

Home baking a swiss roll always makes me think of The Great British Bake Off - contestants trying to get a tight roll and avoid cracking...

In aid of my birthday this week, I wanted to challenge myself to another bake I've never done before. Invented by Franz Sacher in 1832,...

So, I was going to bake cookies/biscuits, but when I went to the co-op to buy oats (for flapjacks) I saw caraway seeds so I baked a seed...

Having exhausted my taste for teabreads and loafs right now, I skipped ahead a few chapters to the cakes section of The Best of Mrs...