cake Archives

Try this moist chocolate courgette brownie recipe

At this time of the year you might be overwhelmed with courgettes / zucchini. I swear that they grow whilst you look at them. Or you might also like the …

An amazing orange cake by Emily Scott

I’d suggest that after chocolate, citrus is everyone’s favourite flavour. Flavours that excite the palate and add a refreshing touch. With that in mind, I am pleased to share simply …

Pistachio and Pomegranate Madeleines

Madeleines – small, delicious and very moreish A madeleine is a small very buttery cake with a crisp edge. They have a distinct shell-like shape from the tin in which …

Make mini berry rum babas

Clandestine Cake Club

She struggled into the packed room clutching a very large white box. “I don’t know what happened” she said. “I ended up making 3 cakes”. She opens the lid to reveal a beautiful towering cake which later proves to have no less than six layers.

There are sixteen of us squeezed into a very pleasant room at the back of Peppers Cafe in Gloucester. We were given the theme last month, but the secret location was communicated by our organiser Julia, just a few days before. This is the Clandestine Cake Club. Today there are 180 such local clubs not only in the United Kingdom but worldwide and as far away as New Zealand with more than 16,000 members. The clubs are the brainchild of Lynn Hill who around 5 years ago set up a secret cake club in her home town of Leeds.