Tag: Delia Smith cakes

A Baking Mistake Isn’t Necessarily a Disaster …

.Reading time 14 minutes.

I’ve said on these pages a number of times that I’m not really a baker. By this I mean I rarely bake cakes and tend to stick to old favourites most of the time when I do. The particular old favourite that I’m writing about here goes back an impressive 40 years! I’ve written about […]

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Wholewheat Fruit & Guinness Cake

.Reading time 12 minutes.

This is a recipe I used to make regularly many years ago. More precisely, when my daughter was a baby, back in the early 1980s. It comes from Delia Smith’s Book of Cakes, published in 1977, where it’s named Wholewheat Guinness Cake. The page where the recipe is printed in the book is so stained […]

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