His Results - Ginger Biscuits

She bought me this awesome saucepan. I have a lot of nice stuff in my kitchen but this may be the nicest. Making the batter was very straightforward. When it came to adding the ginger I decided to forgo measuring and just dumped in a pretty large pile.

I must have added just the perfect amount. More than the recipe called for certainly but the's great since I love ginger.


They turned out really well. A bit chewy, nice and moist and fantastically gingery. I handed some round to a few folk and they were very keen on them. Loads of compliments. I'd certainly recommend the recipe.

Recipe 63 - Ginger Biscuits

You can't go wrong with a ginger recipe can you?

I chose this recipe for ginger biscuits.

We'll be needing:


100g butter
1tbsp golden syrup
2oo g demerera sugar
300 g flour
2tsp baking powder
1tsp bicarbonate soda
3tsp ground ginger
Pinch of salt
1 egg beaten

I'll probably pop a little extra ginger in in some form too.

His Results - Green Apple Cakes

A colleague of mine has an apple tree or two in his garden. He brought some of the bounty in to work for me last year and did so again last week.

I enjoy the challenge of trying to keep the apple peel in one piece when I peel them by hand with a knife. I did pretty well with this lot.

It was dead easy to make this cake. In the recipe it said to put it in a buttered pyrex dish. I'd suggest you line it with baking paper though since mine stuck a little.



This was honestly one of my favourite cakes I've made as part of his little project. It was the texture and moistness that really pushed it over the edge into being extraordinary. The flavour was great too but the super moist, sticky, light texture was knock out. I think I probably put in a lot more apple than the recipe writer intended. I also left it in reasonably big chunks, perhaps a centimeter cubed. That will have helped with the ridiculously fine texture. Try this cake gentle reader!

His Results - Victoria Sponge Cake

Delia was as dependable as ever.



Making a victoria sponge is a little more involved than the all in one sponge recipe I mostly use. It's amazing how much difference the technique makes really because the ingredients are more or less identical.



I sandwiched the layers with seedless raspberry jam and served it with some whipped cream. It was very nice! Not the perfect victoria sponge but a nice one.

Recipe 61 - Victoria Sponge Cake

Once more we turn to football club majority owner, best selling cookery writer and fairly-old-lady Delia Smith. This week she will guide us through the making of a true british classic - victoria sponge cake. I've made it a fair bit in the past but never from this recipe. I'm assuming it's a good one.

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/cuisine/european/english/victoria-sponge-cake.html

His Results - Salted Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

I did a pretty poor job getting photos this week.

There's even less excuse than normal since I made this twice. This is a great recipe. Super tasty and a doddle to make. I enjoyed it so much that I rustled up another batch on thursday.

I didn't get a photo of the finised, baked cookies for some reason but they were nice. I've just never found a single cookie recipe where I enjoyed the finished article more than the raw dough. Most of both batches never even made it to the oven.