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Japan really gets into Christmas - and every year around this time, stores come out with "Kurismasu Keiki" (literally, Christmas Cake!) but it's a little different than what I was used to. I expected a dense, fruit cake when I moved here and heard of the Christmas Cake tradition...but their...

Ingredients 1½ cups (12 fl oz/330ml) Cold strong tea 2 cups (9oz/270g) Plain or all purpose flour ½ cup (4oz/80g) Soft brown sugar 3 cups (1lb/350g) Mixed raisins & sultanas ½ teaspoon (1 level teaspoon) Bread soda (Bicarbonate of Soda) ½ teaspoon (1 level teaspoon) Mixed Spice or allspice 1...

Ingredients The Cake mix Eggplant - 1 Large Eggplant (about 450g when whole and raw) Rice Syrup - 2 -3 heaped Tablespoons Natvia - 1/4 cup Butter - 80 grams or Macadamia Oil for Dairy Free Vanilla Extract - 3 teaspoons Cinnamon - 2 teaspoons Eggs - 3 XL eggs Baking Soda - 1 teaspoon Fresh Lemon...

Judges licence here in starting a new thread (I'm talking of The CookingBites Recipe Challenge, for which I have the honour of being the current judge). @classic33 entered a recipe for Vegan Heartache Cake (Chocolate Eggplant Torte). I was sceptical! I was scathing! Aubergine/eggplant in a...

The other day I came across a very odd cake recipe. As the thread name implies it is for a magic custard cake. in short, all the Ingredients are mixed together into a batter, placed in a baking tin and baked for about 60 70 minutes. When the cake comes out of the oven, it has separated into...

We're not keen on traditional Christmas cake in our house, but rather than just having a chocolate cake (or something else you can have year-round) I bake this rich apple cake instead. Its dense and moist and I think it has a really Christmassy flavour. Ingredients 200g butter, softened plus...

I was rewatching the BBC's Great British Bake Off Master Classes where Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood bake their own recipes. I was particularly taken with the reduced sugar carrot cake because it was also dairy free up until the filling and frosting that is and thought that I might include the...

Ingredients 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (about 5 1/2 ounces) 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom 1/4 teaspoon ground mace 3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar 1/2 cup granulated sugar 2...

Hey all, I tried out a courgette and lime cake, simply because I had these ingredients hanging about in my fridge. I've never made a vegetable cake before, but this was amazing, it still tasted so sweet even without much sugar. I've written up the recipe on my blog post so you can try it out...

Ingredients For the cake 6oz Dairy free spread, soft (Pure) 6oz Caster sugar 6oz Self raising flour 3 eggs 2oz Milk free chocolate powder (Nesquik) Chocolate butter icing 4oz Dairy free spread (Pure) Pack Icing sugar Milk free Chocolate powder (Nesquik) Plus any favourite Dairy free chocolate...

“God made food; the devil the cooks.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses Ingredients Serves 6 8oz butter 8 oz soft brown sugar 4 eggs (lightly beaten) 10oz plain flour and 2 level tsps of mixed spice sieved together 8oz seedless raisins 8oz sultanas 4oz mixed peel 8-12tsps of GUINNESS® Draught 4oz walnuts...

Ingredients: 200ml of vegetable oil of your choice 250g brown caster sugar 3 large eggs 150g black treacle (molasses) 200ml strong black tea 4 tbsp whisky (my choice is Laphroaig :D) A small thumb of fresh ginger, peeled and finely grated 2 tbsp of ground ginger 150g oatmeal 300g self-raising...

I know that I’ve probably lost most of you with the title of this one! Many people would look more favourably on a cake made from toxic waste than the humble brussel sprout. Maybe the cake is named so purely for the shock factor; however, if you glance at the ingredients you’ll notice that it’s...

Whilst looking for recipes in came across an interesting recipe for an alternate chocolate cake recipe made with olive oil and ground almonds. The recipe is both wheat free and dairy free, with the latter being of particular interest to me. I am also guessing that it would not be that difficult...

This is actually a buttery / lemon-flavored pound cake made with 7up soda as one of the ingredients. Ingredients; 3 sticks butter, softened at room temp. 5 or 6 eggs at room temp. 3 cups sugar. 1 teaspoon lemon extract. 3 cups sifted flour. 1 cup Seven-Up. Directions; Preheat oven to...

I finally got around to making a dairy free (and incidentally gluten free) lemon polenta cake last week for my "1/2" birthday (being a Christmas babe, birthdays tended to get lost, so I adopted a 1/2 birthday policy many years ago and spread some of the calories of birthday and christmas cakes...

OK, this is a once a year epic, you have been warned. It is best made around October half term and stored until Christmas. It is stunningly moist from the apple juice, but very heavy and simply wonderful for a hungry cyclist/mountaineer. We have omitted from the orginal recipe what we don't...