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Bara Brith

March 1, 2022 By Amy 5 Comments

Bara Brith recipe from Baking with Granny.

Happy St David’s Day! Or to our Welsh cousins, “Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!” It is no secret that here at Baking with Granny we are firmly a Scottish family but in celebration of the National Welsh holiday, we have managed to obtain a couple of traditional Welsh recipes to share with you. The first being Bara Brith.

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Filed Under: cake, recipe, traditional, welsh

Almond Slice

February 25, 2022 By Amy 25 Comments

Recipe originally published May 2017. Updated and republished in February 2022.

Almond Slice recipe from Baking with Granny.

A sure sign of a recipe being a winner is when half of it is gone before I even manage to get photos! I knew the kids would like Almond Slice, given their love for Mr Kipling Bakewell Slices but I hadn’t anticipated making two batches within a few days.

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Filed Under: cake, jam, pastry, raspberry, recipe, tray bake

Butterfly Cakes

January 14, 2022 By Amy 6 Comments

Butterfly Cakes recipe from Baking with Granny.

My kids reaction upon seeing these Butterfly Cakes in my kitchen was, “wooooah, look at those cupcakes!” What was a perfectly innocent response of glee and excitement actually made me feel a unexpected pang of sadness.

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Filed Under: cake, cupcake, kids, recipe, scottish, traditional

Upside-down Pineapple Cake

February 17, 2021 By Amy 6 Comments

Upside-down Pineapple Cake recipe. Traditional Scottish recipes from Baking with Granny.

You know me, I love a simple bake, especially one that looks deceivingly like a showstopper with very minimal effort. This upside-down Pineapple Cake is just that! A delicious sponge, topped (bottomed?) with glowing rings of pineapple and gems of glace cherries.

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School Cake

July 14, 2020 By Amy 58 Comments

School Cake. Recipe of traditional school dinner cake, served as part of school lunches in the UK. Sponge cake, topped with icing and rainbow sprinkles.

When I first set out to make this recipe I wondered if School Cake was now a thing of the past. The boys however informed me that you do still indeed get School Cake at lunchtime, albeit not everyday, nor after a ‘nutritious’ serving of Turkey Twizzlers and chips!

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Filed Under: cake, recipe, scottish

Carrot Cake

May 18, 2020 By Amy 12 Comments

Carrot Cake recipe from Baking with Granny. UK recipe for a easy but deliciously moist carrot cake, with raisins, sultanas, walnuts and buttercream.

There’s a few conversations from my High School years that stick in my mind. There is one in particular though, which I always recall when someone mentions Carrot Cake!

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Filed Under: cake, freefrom, recipe

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Hello, I’m Amy, the voice-behind and creator-of Baking with Granny.

So many of us have fond memories of baking with our parents and grandparents. Good old fashioned home baking, made to traditional family recipes, which are passed down through generations. It was from my own experiences and memories of this that Baking with Granny was born…

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