Taste of Glasgow

If you are a keen baker like me you will most likely have this little brown bottle of vanilla goodness in your cupboard.  And I’m going to give you some extra handy tips for using this for something other than baking. But before I do, did you know you need to be over 18 to [...]

The recipe is inspired mostly by Levi Roots’ recipe for ginger cake, but as always I’ve made a few tweaks after baking it several times over the last year while still keeping it easy peasy, my favourite type of baking.

As some of you know I had the delights of coming up with a recipe for the little beetroots that arrived in my organic veg box recently. Thanks to the help of many of you, you did clarify they were indeed beetroots otherwise this might have been a whole different recipe.  After a little online [...]

It was a Saturday afternoon and we were off to friends for coffee and I couldn’t possibly go empty handed so I baked this coffee concoction, it’s easy to bake and undoubtedly impresses. Ingredients 250g unsalted butter at room temp (I recommend lurpak) 250g of light soft brown sugar 4 eggs beaten 3-4 tbsp of [...]

In response to a request from a Taste of Glasgow foodie we took it upon ourselves to try out some oaty raisiny cookie concoctions and find a good recipe for these sought after cookies.  So after a few batches I hope we’ve come up with something that works, it has a cakey chewy consistency and [...]

In honour of National Cupcake Week we thought it only fitting to get baking some cupcakes at Taste of Glasgow HQ, so here you go some easy peasy maple syrup squeazy cupcakes.