Caramel Honeycomb Cake with Biscoff Cheesecake filling

16/02/201805/07/2018 by bakedbyh ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

How cute is this rustic caramel cake with homemade honeycomb and biscoff cheesecake frosting guys?! There’s something delightfully organic about the juxtaposition of straight layer cakes piled high with messy frosting and topped with golden crunchy honeycomb. It’s a super easy cake to assemble, and I would thoroughly recommend it for all occasions/birthdays/rainy days.

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve officially taken my first real hiatus. My OCD-like tendencies have always stopped me from missing out on writing a blog post each month, purely because my archive list over there on the right would get messed up! Honestly, keeping up that archive list to satisfy my weird and annoying control and organisation obsession, has been in the back of my mind every month for the last 3 years. Read more ›

Matcha and White Chocolate Cupcakes

31/03/2017 by bakedbyh ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

So unless you live under a rock, you’ll have heard about Matcha. It’s a “health food” but it’s a lot trendier than goji berries or açai etc, because it’s not new or ‘undiscovered’ – it’s been used in East Asian culture for, like, ever! Matcha is basically stone ground green tea leaves; it has more benefits than green tea because you actually consume the leaves themselves as opposed to the water from brewed leaves like green tea. It gives you buckets of slow-release energy and has lots of antioxidant benefits. Yeah so I’m sure you’re all wondering how and why this information has this made its way on to BBH? Basically, it’s super trendy to bake with Matcha. It has a slightly earthy taste, that is complemented by a lot of flavours we know well (white chocolate, lemon, honey etc). It used to be exclusively Japanese bloggers and restaurants that dabbled with Matcha, but now it’s a lot more accessible, and it tastes so good!

Matcha is typically made into a hot drink – with hot water for tea, or hot milk for a matcha latte. The latter can be quite sweet and is an excellent caffeinated hot chocolate alternative if you fancy a change from the usual mocha. The flavour doesn’t have the sourness of green tea, but is slightly more deep and complex (like me). You can of course, bake with Matcha and it lends a lovely green hue to everything with no artificial colour! It’s not an overpowering flavour, and can be very subtle. These cupcakes are particularly subtle, but you can adapt them to have as much, or as little matcha flavour as you’d like. I may or may not have introduced Matcha in this post as a health food – just to clarify, these cupcakes certainly do not count as healthy! Whilst the cake part of these cupcakes probably aren’t that bad for you, the (pink) white chocolate ganache, vanilla frosting, Matcha frosting, and white chocolate shards, probably are. YOLO, though.

WeLoveMatcha is a great U.K. based brand selling Matcha and the various paraphernalia necessary. They were kind enough to offer BakedByH readers a 20% discount on their products! The WeLoveMatcha Starter Kit would be a great gift or perfect to start the summer grind, if you need more energy for the gym or the library!

Use code bakedbyh20 for the generous discount (this is not an affiliate code – I don’t make any money from you guys using the code!) 😊

For more benefits of Matcha, read this.

Red Velvet Brownies

14/02/2017 by bakedbyh ♥ 2 Comments

So, these are like, totally in the top 5 bakes to ever emerge from the BBH testing kitchen. They are just the right amount of sweet and chocolatey (aka the classic red velvet tang) with a healthy dose of the old fudgy brownie texture. There’s something very magical about them if eaten still slightly warm from the oven. They took an hour start to finish and they are soooo easy. No mixer, one bowl, easy clean up. Just great😍. Red velvet on Valentine’s has become a bit of a theme on BBH, with last years Red Velvet Cookies, but in my honest opinion, these are a little easier & quicker and taste SOOOOOO GOOOOOOOD. Don’t just take my word for it, make them yourself!

Millionaire’s Shortbread

30/01/2017 by bakedbyh ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

I think this is one of my most requested recipes – a true British classic that defined childhoods nationwide. Although BBH has a (very yummy) shortbread recipe, I thought I’d find a simple all-in-one recipe that combines the three aspects of Millionaire’s shortbread together well. I had just watched an old episode of Bake Off, and it had James Morton in it… You know the clever Scottish med student? I always liked him (he reminds me of my brother, though, not as much as Tamal does!). I wanted him to win when he was in the competition! Yeah, so this is his recipe. And it’s really simple. Which my tired, unmotivated self currently appreciates.

These aren’t hugely labour intensive and including the chilling time, will take you under two hours. They are great with tea or coffee and aren’t too sweet. I adapted the recipe slightly by adding more salt than it calls for – I think that qualifies these as salted caramel millionaires shortbread. You guys know how I feel about salted caramel… 😏

Chocolate, Mascarpone and Popping Candy Cake

31/12/201631/12/2016 by bakedbyh ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

It’s the 31^st December. And I’m currently in a habit of stating the obvious, apparently. Let’s not talk about how quickly this year has gone, or that it seems to have been a year full of misery. From politics to personal, 2016 just doesn’t deserve to make the history books. So I won’t talk about it. Instead, let’s talk about this cake. It’s a bit extra I know; I’m clearly trying to make up for the fact that I didn’t provide my loyal readers with various festive bakes. In my defence… I tried. I had a really good idea, it just didn’t go how I planned. So for all those who ask how “everything I bake is so perfect first time” etc etc. It isn’t. Trust me. That one didn’t make the cut. By next Christmas, hopefully I’ll have refined it a little!

This cake is a chocolate cake, helped along the chocolate train with a little kick of espresso powder and sandwiched among pillows of mascarpone and vanilla frosting. There’s not much more to it than that – it’s simple, quick and can be as fussy or fuss-free as you wish to make it. I sprinkled popping candy between each layer, because New Year’s Eve and all that. Totally optional, and won’t affect the final flavour/look of the cake.