In the Bakehouse oven for Christmas

We've been working hard – mostly on school work and exams L but also in the kitchen on some new recipes J

Our brownies have been such a huge hit, everyone seems to love them so we've introduced some new flavours especially for the festive season;

Double Chocolate,

Pistachio and Cardamom,

Cranberry and Mandarin,

Black Mitcham Minter Wonderland,

Chocolate Hazelnut,

and Mochachino.

 

 


Our cake*jars have also had a christmas makeover;
 

Minter Wonderland,

Sticky Mandarin,

Cranberry, Pecan and Orange,

Hazelnut and Chocolate,

and Festive Panettone

All delicious and perfect for sharing XX

PS. photos on their way when we get a chance to take them before the cake get eaten!!

end of summer rice pudding

At the end of the summer holidays we made up a big batch of rice pudding to experiment with flavours.
 

We decided we loved the chocolate one but our favourite is the coconut and cardamom. We ate it cold with fresh raspberries and banana outside in the late summer evening sun.
 

 

Here's what we use.....

Italian Arborio risotto rice – yes the kind of rice risotto is made from. Calon Wen organic milk and cream, fresh grated coconut plus it's milk, cardamom seeds, brown unrefined sugar, plump organic raisins and lots and lots of stirring.

It really was delicious.  That seems so long ago now, looking forward to eating it hot by the fire. Homemade comfort food. XX

in the bakehouse oven .....

We've been busy working towards exams. That hasn't stopped the flow of requests for our brownies so The Small Bakehouse has baking and baking and baking brownies in between maths and chemistry revision.
 
Here's what we use as our ingredients ......

Organic wheat flour from Shipton Mill or Dove's Farm organic gluten free flour, Calon Wen unsalted organic butter, local free range eggs and unrefined, unbleached sugar. Green and Black's organic AND fairtrade chocolate and cocoa. A little magic and a lot of love.
 

Wrapped in brown paper and stripy cotton string with a hand stamped label made from recycled paper and a little bit of washi tape.

That's it. Simple and completely natural. Ethically sound.
That said, we do like a good brownie with something special added to it like pecans or almonds, though our favourite is Oreo cookies. Yum.
 

                                                                                                                                       
Last week we had a big school stage production of Phantom of the Opera and on the last night we baked up a double batch of brownies, wrapped them up in a huge parcel and took them to share with our friends.

One problem we are having is that we now have to hide from our teachers as if they spot us in the corrider they want to know where our stash of brownies is hidden and why they haven't had any delivered to them at breaktime! XX