This month's Daring Bakers challenge, hosted by Deborah of Taste and Tell and Elle of Feeding My Enthusiasms, is Cheesecake Pops. Or, as I like to think of it, cheesecake-onna-stick. My love of cheesecake is legendary and of course,...
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...or how to dent your ego in one easy step. I've been baking Lemon Meringue Pies (hereafter abbreviated to LMP) since the age of seven, so when LMP was announced as the January challenge for the Daring Bakers--hosted by...
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Happy New Year everyone! Thank-you for visiting A Spoonful of Sugar--especially those readers who have stuck with me though my all-too-frequent absences--and for all your kind comments and questions. I really appreciate them. As I skipped out on blogging...
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I did intend to write about the delicious turkey, the gloriously claret-red cranberry sauce, and the mountain of gloriously crunchy roast potatoes--the latter made by Dave--but it wasn't until we were all licking the plates clean that I remembered...
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Do you know what I miss most while dieting? Cheese? Nope. Chocolate? Nope; you can still make amazing low-fat chocolate desserts while dieting. What I really, really miss is pastry. Pies, tarts, pasties, and quiche. Oh, how I miss...
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This may be Lucas's new favourite food. He gobbled down a massive portion in record time--it's amazing just how much food that boy can eat when his taste buds get motivated.... In cold weather you can't beat rice pudding...
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I love cheesecake and I love lemon curd. Using the magic of culinary mathematics, that means that I also love... lemon curd cheesecake! If you squint ever so slightly you can see the lemon curd at the bottom of...
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(Please excuse the photo. I forgot to take one before it started being devoured. Think of this as an action shot, if it helps.) A few weeks ago a friend of ours invited us to her birthday BBQ/garden party....
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When I was eleven we visited my grandparents in Barbados. One of my most striking memories of the trip was being offered a tall glass of lemonade and discovering a whole new taste. It turned out that Mama (my...
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Spring has arrived in England; everywhere you look daffodils and crocuses are providing splashes of colour, brightening up gardens and roadsides. To celebrate the joys of spring, I thought that a nice brightly flavoured citrus dessert would be just...
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I love Creme Caramel and seriously considered making it for this month's Sugar High Friday, as hosted by Debbie. It just seemed a little pedestrian and obvious; I was therefore delighted when I stumbled across Flan, the Mexican version...
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I had a disastrous cooking session on Thursday when I decided to make my cookies for this month's IMBB (hosted by Jennifer, she's having a busy month!). I had decided to make some German Cinnamon Star Cookies from a...
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I eat a lot of ice-cream (a slight understatement, you understand) but I rarely get around to making my own. In fact, my poor ice-cream machine has been shoved to the back of a cupboard since we moved house...
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It's time for another edition of "Sugar High Fridays", the sweet-toothed sister event to "Is My Blog Burning?". This month's theme is very seasonal, apples! My first thought was baked apples stuffed with mincemeat (I'm still working my way...
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I first had lemon posset about eight years ago when I was at university. One Sunday whilst working my way through the newspapers I stumbled across a very short recipe for what appeared to be the easiest dessert in...
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I recently invested in a copy of Rose Reisman's "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Light Desserts" after some long email chats with Renee about light baking. It's packed with loads of really delicious sounding recipes and I'm enjoying cooking...
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Tablet is a traditional Scottish sweet which dates back to the early 18th century. If you've never had it before then you've been missing out for years! The texture is hard to describe; I'd say its somewhat like slightly...
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This month's edition of "Is My Blog Burning" is hosted by Donna of There's A Chef In My Kitchen. This months theme is wines and spirits which is perfect timing as I've just decanted my home-made strawberry liqueur! I...
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For some time now, I've been trying to acquire a copy of Alice Medrich's "Chocolate and The Art of Low-Fat Desserts" (a mouthful of a title, if I ever heard one!), but with no success. Renee has baked several...
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This is my ultimate cheesecake. A veritable tower of smooth ivory satin.... Perfect on its own, but also equally as nice with a fruit coulis. Unbelievably this cheesecake is low-fat (doesn't look it, eh?) and hails from Sue Kreitzman's...
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Having guests for the weekend is always a fantastic excuse for baking, and this weekend was no exception. I flicked through How To Be A Domestic Goddess for some inspiration and as usual, ended up drooling over Nigella's Boston...
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Yes, yet another cheesecake! I'm going through a definite cheesecake phase just now.... This one is also low-fat and my very first cheesecake with topping (although, it is the easiest topping in the world). The unique thing about this...
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Dieting is so often a dismal business, but occasionally you do find a ray of hope. For the past few years, my occasional diets have been cheered considerably by my discovery of Sue Kreitzman's low-fat cookbooks. She may be...
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On Friday, Dave spotted an entry in one of our guidebooks for Gelateria Nico; apparently the most renowned gelateria in Venice. Never one to pass up a visit to an ice-cream parlour, I squealed and jumped around a bit....
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I recently indulged in a little spending spree at my favourite bookshop. Amongst the treasure I brought home was a book that I've been ogling for some time - HomeBaking by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid. The only reason...
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When I was little, coconut ice (along with tablet) was a mainstay of School Fetes, Bake Sales and the Summer Fair. Shops did sell it, but it was always much better when homemade (as is the case with most...
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This boozy jelly, by it's very nature low-fat, made the perfect dessert to follow the Tandoori Chicken I made a few nights ago. Jelly is one of my standard desserts when I'm dieting; and now that I've discovered how...
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Whilst browsing Epicurious this week I came across this rather interesting sounding recipe and promptly decided to make it. Curiously, the recipe was actually created to serve two portions, something which is rather rare these days. I must confess...
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I've had a lot of fun making my cake for this month's "Is My Blog Burning?" day, hosted by the lovely Renee. I've owned a beginner's piping set for a few months now, but I've only used it to...
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Renee recently posted an article about kaya - a Malay coconut spread. This really piqued my interest as I'd previously made a coconut curd which had similar ingredients, but which was billed as a European recipe. I searched for...
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I'm a huge fan of rhubarb and have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the first forced rhubarb in the shops. I spotted some at the weekend and decided that it would make a great dessert for Wednesday night....
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This is an adaptation of Jill Dupleix's (yes, her again) Rhubarb Crumble Cake. I had planned to do the rhubarb cake but when I got to the greengrocers they didn't have any rhubarb left and neither did Waitrose. So,...
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This was intended to be the dessert for a dinner party/gossip session that we had planned to go to tonight; however, a combination of Dave working late and not feeling well meant that we stayed home and enjoyed it...
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In a fit of efficiency a few days ago, I used up some of the odds and ends in the kitchen to make this delicious bread pudding. The recipe comes from Gordon Ramsay's "Just Desserts" and I modified it...
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