in the bakehouse oven.....

baking banoffee pie cake ....order now! XX

sisterhood of the travelling cake queens

We spent nearly a year travelling across Europe. We intended to embrace local culture and eat as much as possible like the locals. Every now again we couldn't help but be tempted and enticed by the amazing cake shops we found along the way, often tucked away down a back street.

  

Family search for fresh chocolate pasta and cake, Italy





Iced nut milks and italian pastries, Lecce, Southern Italy



Enjoying pastries in Paris, France.

Wherever we explored, once the vegetables were in our basket, we went in search of cake....

Choosing pastries in Rome, Italy.

Our love of small cups of thick Spanish hot chocolate was well and truly developed in Barcelona. Never had we tasted anything so delicious that could be called a drink - more like a cup of slightly bitter chocolate creamy custard. Especially delicious to dip churros in, and yes they look like chips but taste more like fresh donuts bought off Brighton Pier, crisp and sugary.

Chocolate con churros, Barcelona.

Chocolate brownies, Amsterdam.

And then we came back to some of our favourite places in Soho, London - Patisserie Valerie in Old Compton Street, who made our parents' wedding cake and Bar Italia in Frith Street where we used to hang out at a pavement table or in the back of the car nibbling at pasteis de nata (custard tarts) 

Patisserie Valerie, Soho, London.

Pasteis de Nata, Bar Italia, London

And after tasting cake from all over Europe, cake is definitely our thing! Our own version of pasteis de nata is going into the oven now. XX

And Dad said it wouldn’t work!

The latest addition to our ever expanding small bakehouse collection – especially made for our dad who would rather eat pudding than cake.

Made with Italian Arborio risotto rice, organic milk and cream, cinnamon, Green and Black's fair trade chocolate, and topped with a dollop of sweetened mascarpone – in a jar. Hot or cold.
It tastes like Me-Mum's homemade rice pudding with thick Spanish hot chocolate mixed in. Yum.

We made a vegan friend a coconut and cardamon version with fresh almond milk, raisins, agave syrup, and topped with coconut cream and pistachios - dairy and gluten free and no refined sugar.

And everyone's been telling us just how much they like eating cake and now pudding out of the jar. Sustainable packaging at it's best – recyclable, reusable, and no chemicals leaching into the food from plastic containers or wrapping. When you've eaten enough – just screw the lid back on. Perfect. XX

Whizzy bars

It was school sports day, and we were competing in six track and three field events between us. So Mum made us these granola bars to keep us going fast all day long.

Oats, chia seeds (Mexican endurance food), almonds, coconut, sesame seeds, raisins, sweetened with some cacao and maple syrup.
Sports day turned out to be cancelled as it rained so hard. So we shared the granola bars with our friends instead.

Rather than being tired when we got home from school, we were still full of energy - so mum made us go out for a run!