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Clandestine Cake-a-long Returns – Torta Columbina & Homemade Orange Curd Recipe
We’ve had a few weeks break from the Cake-a-long but its back raring to go! It seems that with every cake I’ve made from the Clandestine Cake Collection, I’ve learnt a new skill and developed a new addiction. This time it is a delicious orange curd – when I came to make the Cake-a-long bake I discovered I didn’t have any orange curd in so undeterred made my own. Delicious! And so easy in the microwave. All the way through, I was convinced I’d mess it up, my eggs would curdle and it would taste awful – but NO – IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS! We are now eating Homemade Orange Curd with everything – the kids might draw the line at Orange Curd Tuna Pasta however. I’ve never heard of a Torta Columbina before – I have googled and found Tarta Columbiana which sounds very similar. This cake was the brainwave of Euan Greig who blogs over at Signor Biscotti, a lovely blog that will have your mouth watering. Euan’s version of the cake looks so much better than mine and you can find the recipe here. I’m going to try to interview Euan in time for the next more »
Lime & Pistachio Round-Up: Clandestine Cake-a-long 1
Source: picmonkey.com via Helen on Pinterest Wow! What a fabulous start to the Clandestine Cake-a-long. Our first bake seems to have been a great success with many more people saying they hope to take part. The Clandestine Cake Club Cookbook was published almost 2 weeks ago now and everywhere I go people are talking about it. I came across it in Costco last week when I was shopping with the 3 mini Costellos – we may have left it open on my recipe page for all to see ahem! Anyhow, back to the Lime and Pistachio cake – I thought it would be an idea to do a round up of all the bakes submitted to the Cake-a-long. I have added them all to the Clandestine Cake-a-long Pinterest board too. Feel free to visit the pics and leave comments. For our first recipe, we had bakes from Katy Hough, Rhonda Kirby, Cassandra Simpson and Victoria Murray. We have had a fortnight of getting to grips with Pinterest aswell as a new recipe so we’ve all learnt something. I hope to add a Clandestine Cake-a-long Facebook page in the next few days to make it easier for FB diehards to add more »
Clandestine Cake-a-long Episode 1: Lime & Pistachio Cake
Cor, what a cake to start with! For those of you who haven’t read last week’s post – I’m embarking on a new mission to bake my way through the fabulous new Clandestine Cake Club Cookbook. Every fortnight I will hopefully be joined by other crazy bakers as we show our attempts at the cake choice of the fortnight. I have been in contact with many of the contributors of the book (many of whom have said that they are also up for the challenge of baking along too) to find out more about them. This week, I am starting with Lynn Hill, Founder of the mighty Clandestine Cake Club. I’ve not actually met Lynn yet but I feel like I know her well following several phone calls and email exchanges over the past 2 years. (One of my sisters has been in Lynn’s house for a Secret Tea Party so that makes us nearly relatives?!) Lynn lives in Leeds, where she set up the very first Clandestine Cake Club. In order for us to get to know Lynn a little better, I posed some questions for her to answer: How did you get into baking? My mother baked and more »
