Meet The Baker….Monkfish tails takes you behind the scenes at the Manna House Bakery in Edinburgh….read all about Drew Massey and his artisan baking, his passion for bread and our 5am alarm call…
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A rather quick post from me and one that doesn’t really need much chat (you’ll be pleased about that….). Introducing Mymonkfish’s wicked three tier red velvet sponge cake with cream cheese frosting made especially for the lovely ladies (and the odd gent) of the ‘Edinburgh Cake Ladies’.
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Tagged baking, cake, edinburgh cake club, Edinburgh Cake Ladies, Mr Predictable, red velvet cake
Not sure I need to say that much about what you see before you except that they’re jammy, they’re scrumptious, one is not enough (true about most of the baking activities I undertake) and of course they are very very romantic 😉 Continue reading
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Tagged baking, Jam tarts, Jammie Dodgers, Mr Predictable, Olive magazine, valentines day
Of late this blog mostly seems to have been about cake….OK OK, I hear you, it’s been ALL about cake – so I thought I’d finish the ‘ongoing theme’ off nicely (for a while) with a review of Mimis Bakehouse, the new ‘cake kid on the block’ down in lovely sunny Leith.
What better way to spend a lazy sunday afternoon than with a pot of tea or two……. Continue reading
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Saturday afternoon was spent with Nigella with one very important mission in mind, that of icing my lovely Christmas cake – Nige. Maybe a little over familiar considering I’m going to be eating him (!!) but we’ve become extremely close during the last few weeks. Myself and Ms Lawson baked Nige a few weeks ago at our own stir up saturday party and he’s been tucked away in the Hillside pantry since then. Continue reading
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Tagged baking, cake, Christmas, christmas cake, forevernigella, nigella lawson, nigella lawson christmas cake
