Profiteroles

These profiteroles are extremely fun to eat, but we can guarantee they are just as much fun to make! The pastry on profiteroles is unique, coupled with the thicker cream and chocolate sauce, you have the perfect dessert. Profiteroles are ideal to make if you are having family and friends around for a party, as people can just help themselves!

After seeing profiteroles on the Great British Bakeoff final earlier in the week, we haven’t been able to stop thinking about these fantastic little desserts. So here is a recipe for profiteroles courtesy of BBC Good Food, what could be better than homemade profiteroles!

 

Ingredients:

For the Pastry

  • 50g butter
  • 2 tbsp caster sugar
  • 75g white flour with a pinch of salt
  • 2 lightly beaten eggs
  • 300ml double cream
  • Vanilla Extract

For the Sauce

  • 50g cocoa powder
  • 175g caster sugar

Instructions:

Step 1-Preheat your oven to 220 degrees celcius/200 degrees celcius in a fan oven/Gas Mark 7. To start making the profiteroles, add the butter, 2 tbsp of caster sugar, and around 150ml of water on a saucepan. Leave the mixture to melt and bring to the boil. Take the mixture off the heat and add the flour, then beat together quickly until the dough starts to come away from the edges of the pan.

Step 2-Let the dough cool for 5 minutes then add the eggs in gradually using a food processor until the dough turns glossy. Then take two baking trays and rinse them with cold water and shake them to leave them slightly damp (to help the dough rise). Then start placing spoonfuls of the mixture on the baking trays and place in the oven to bake for around 20 minutes. Once baked, remove from the oven and cut a small slit in the base of each profiterole to ensure that they don’t sink.

Step 3-Once cooled, whip the cream and add the remaining sugar and vanilla extract to your taste. Cut each profiterole in half and add a generous amount of cream to each one and pile them up on a plate. Refrigerate them for around 1-2 hours to chill, but no longer as the pastry will go soggy.

Step 4-To make the chocolate sauce, add the caster sugar and 100ml of water to a pan and warm until it is fully dissolved. Bring this to the boil and add the cocoa powder to the dissolved mixture and stir in until it is smooth.

Step 5- Set aside the sauce for about 15 minutes, then remove the profiteroles from the fridge. Drizzle the chocolate sauce over the profiteroles, and that’s it! All that is left to do is to enjoy your very own homemade profiteroles!

Source: BBC Good Food 

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To celebrate National Cupcake Week, we have this fantastic recipe for you to try at home. It is National Cupcake Week from 15th to 21st September, so what better way to celebrate than baking a few cakes for yourself. The organisers of National Cupcake Week do some fantastic work for Wellbeing of women charity, so why don’t you take a look at their websites for more information!

Here at British Bakeware, we love cupcakes, so when there is a week dedicated to these delicious sweet treats, we couldn’t help but celebrate it! We have launched a competition for one of our lucky followers to win a cupcake tray and cooling rack, and we thought we would give you this recipe as an idea for something to bake if you were lucky enough to win, or even if you just want to celebrate National Cupcake Week like us. These cakes take only 35 minutes to prepare and cook, and a fantastic twist on the classic cupcake recipe. The flavours from the raspberries really compliment the orange sugar drizzle giving you a burst of fruity goodness when you take your first bite!

 

Ingredients:

For the Cupcakes

  • 200g self-raising flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 200g of softened unsalted butter
  • 4 eggs
  • 200g caster sugar
  • 3 tbsp milk
  • 50g ground almonds
  • Zest of 1 orange
  • 150g raspberries slightly crushed

For the Sugar Crust

  • Juice of 1 orange
  • 4 tbsp of caster sugar

Instructions:

Step 1- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees celcius/Gas Mark 4. Take a 12 cup cupcake tin and line with paper muffin cases.

Step 2-Add the first 8 ingredients on the list to a mixing bowl and beat with an electric whisk. You should do this until the mixture starts to become smoother. Once this is the case, fold the crushed raspberries in to the mixture.

Step 3-Divide this mixture equally between the 12 paper muffin cases, place in the oven, and bake for 20 to 25 minutes until the tops of the cupcakes start to turn a fantastic golden brown colour.

Step 4-For the sugar drizzle, mix the orange juice and 4 tbsp of caster sugar together until fully blended together.

Step 5- Remove the cupcakes from the oven and let them cool for between 10 and 15 minutes. Then equally split the orange sugar drizzle over the top of each cupcake.

Step 6-Serve with any of the remaining raspberries, and enjoy!

Source: BBC Good Food 

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Plum Jam Sponge

This is a deliciously simple Plum Jam Sponge recipe that you can prepare and bake in under 45 minutes!

Last month we launched a competition to win our heart shaped cake tin and a cooling rack, and our lucky winner was Rebecca Angela Lewis! Rebecca decided to show us what she had baked, so here we have her very own recipe and fantastic photo of her Plum Jam Sponge. Thanks very much for sharing your baking skills with us Rebecca, it looks fantastic!

 

Ingredients:

For the Cake

  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
  • 2 eggs
  • Margarine
  • Sugar
  • Self Raising Flour
  • 1 jar of plum jam

Instructions:

Step 1- Weigh 2 eggs, and whatever the weight of that is, proceed to weigh the same amount of margarine, sugar and flour.

Step 2- Place the margarine and flour in a mixing bowl and mix until it turns fluffy.

Step 3-Add the vanilla essence and the 2 eggs to the mixture and mix together. It helps if you beat the eggs before hand.

Step 4-Once the eggs and vanilla essence are mixed in, sift the flour and baking powder in to the mixture and begin to fold in until it is part of the mixture as well.

Step 5-Take a heart shaped cake tin and layer it with grease proof paper to stop the mixture from sticking.

Step 6- Add a layer of plum jam and spoon in the cake mixture. You can use any type of jam, it doesn’t have to be plum!

Step 7-Bake for 25-30 minutes at 180 degrees celcius until the top turns a delicious golden brown colour. Allow the cake to cool for 10-15 minutes.

Step 8-All there is left to do now is enjoy a slice!

Rebecca Angela Lewis 

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Marble Loaf Cake

This Chocolate and Vanilla marble loaf is a fantastic recipe for you to try at home, combining two of the nation’s favourite flavours in one delicious cake!

There is nothing better than a slice of loaf cake with a cup of tea or coffee! Since the Great British Bake Off is in full swing, we thought we would give you one of Mary Berry’s recipes to try for yourself at home. This fantastic Chocolate and Vanilla marble loaf looks incredible, and is extremely easy to bake!

 

Ingredients:

For the Cake

  • 225g softened butter
  • 225g caster sugar
  • 275g self-raising flour
  • 2 tbsp baking powder
  • 4 large eggs
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • Half tsp of vanilla extract
  • 1 and a half tbsp cocoa powder
  • 2 tbsp hot water

For the Icing

  • 25g butter
  • 15g of sifted cocoa powder
  • 1-2 tbsp milk
  • 100g sifted icing sugar
  • Roughly 25g of melted white chocolate

Instructions:

Step 1- Preheat your oven to 160C/325F or gas mark 3.

Step 2- Lightly grease a loaf tin and place a piece of non-stick baking paper in the tin, ensuring that it covers the wide sides and base.

Step 3- Put the milk, eggs, flour, butter, sugar, baking powder and vanilla extract in to a large bowl and mix together using an electric whisk. Then place half of the mixture in to another bowl, and put to one side for later. So now you have 2 bowls of cake mixture.

Step 4- In a separate small bowl, mix the hot water and cocoa powder together until it becomes silky smooth. Add this to one of the bowls of cake mixture once it has cooled.

Step 5- Put the chocolate and vanilla mixtures into the loaf tin you prepared earlier until all of the mixture has been used up.

Step 6- Bake the mixture for around 50 minutes to an hour until it starts to rise and move away from the sides of the tin. You’ll know when the cake is finished baking as it will be springy to touch. If it isn't, simply bake for a few minutes more. Once finished, allow the cake to cool slightly before removing the baking paper and place on a cooling rack to finish cooling.

Step 7- For the icing, you need to melt the butter in a pan to start. Once melted, add the cocoa powder and mix in for about 90 seconds. Add the milk and icing sugar and start to stir it in.

Step 8- Remove this from the heat and mix it together. Leave the icing for a while to thicken up.

Step 9- Once the icing has thickened, spread it over the cake, and finally drizzle the melted white chocolate over the top and leave it to set!

Step 10- The only thing left to do now is cut yourself a slice of this delicious cake!

Source: Telegraph 

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These delicious jammy biscuits could not be easier to make if you tried, something excellent to bake with the kids on those rainy summer days.

The subject on the GBBO this week is biscuits, so we thought we give you a simply recipe so you can bake along later tonight. These jammy biscuits are classic, and let’s be honest, who can resist a jammy biscuit, we certainly can’t!

 

Ingredients:

  • 200g self-raising flour
  • 100g caster sugar
  • 100g butter
  • 1 egg
  • 4 tbsp strawberry jam

Instructions:

Step 1- Preheat your oven to 190C/gas mark 5/160 fan.

Step 2- Mix the butter, sugar and flour together in a mixing bowl until it starts to take the consistency of breadcrumbs. Or you can do this in a food processor if you want to take the easy option.

Step 3- Once you have mixed the butter, sugar and flour together, beat the egg and add as much of it as is needed to turn the mixture in to a stiff dough.

Step 4-Then shape the dough mixture in to a tubular shape ensuring it has a diameter of about 5cm. Once this is done, cut the rolled dough in to 2cm disc shapes.

Step 5- Spread the discs out on a baking tray or baking sheet, ensuring there is enough room left between each one, as the mixture will need the room when it is baking.

Step 6-Make a small mark in the middle of each disc and place 1 tbsp of the strawberry jam in the centre .

Step 7-Bake for 10 to 15 minutes until the biscuits start to rise and they turn a delicious golden brown colour. Place on a wire rack to cool.

Step 8-Once cooled, you can tuck in and enjoy these scrumptious biscuits!

Source: UK TV 

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