A Taste of Staffordshire When you think of Staffordshire’s culinary heritage what springs to mind? Oatcakes, Burton on Trent’s beers? Branston pickle? Well one things for sure I’m sure it isn’t ice cream. Needwood Farm produce award winning (gold medal at the National Ice Cream competition) hand finished dairy ice creams made with fresh milk, [...]
Here we are at the Daring Bakers time again, yippee! The February 2009 challenge is hosted by Wendy of WMPE’s blog and Dharm of Dad ~ Baker & Chef. We have chosen a Chocolate Valentino cake by Chef Wan; a Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Dharm and a Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Wendy as the [...]
Well yesterday I was in the mood for baking and in the mood for chocolate (when am I ever not?), and it just had to be a large, tall, extravegant looking creation. What better than the Devil’s Food Cake which just screams excess. Devil’s Food Cake is one of my all time favourite treats, [...]
Can it ever be too cold to eat ice cream? As popular foodie debates go that has to be a pretty highly rated question. I would (and often do) argue that the answer is a definitive no, sometimes only a bowl of ice cream will do, and homemade is always that notch above. So yesterday, [...]