Sharabelle bakes

MR KIPLING  NEW GLUTEN FREE RANGE Recently discovered that the Mr Kipling Brand are taking advantage of the increasing demand for Free From Foods, by releasing their own range.  There currently for sale in Tesco Supermarkets.  I don't know when they plan to roll out the new cakes to the other supermarkets.   Mini Cherry Bakewells TESCO £2.50 Ginger and Lemon Loaf Cake TESCO £3.00 Apple Loaf Cake TESCO £3.00 Cherry Bakewell Loaf Cake TESCO £3.00 Can't wait to try these out x

Something from a lot of nothing I made a small batch of vegan Lemon Curd yesterday, unfortunelty I made it too thick.  The plan had been to use it to flavour my Soy yogurt for breakfast.  I hate anything going to waste, so I needed to find something I could do with it.   Today is also not one of my good days, forgot to re-order my pills from the doctor and run out this morning.  I also have a large red spot on my chin, not an attractive look.    In times like this there is only one thing that can be done, BAKE.... Basic Biscuit/cookie Recipe 4 oz Dairy free margerine 2-4 oz caster Sugar (depending on your own taste) 1 egg or egg substitute (Linseed/flaxseed egg subb) 8 oz Flour soy milk to mix if required Using an electric food mixer Cream Marg and sugar together for a few minutes.  Next add a small amount of flour along with egg or subsitute.  (This will stop the mix curdling) Slowly add rest of flour till the mix st...

Baking on a Budget, with limited resources and time Lemon Soda Loaf Cake It's the weekend and I should really be relaxing, however anxiety doesn't come with an off switch.  So basically I'm in hyper mode.  Imagine a child running around and playing all day then crashing in the afternoon, is basically the nearest description I can get.  I already know why, Iv done it again and scheduled too much into for next week!!! Along with a full week Iv also promised to bake for several different people.  I always bake for the reading group monthly meeting.  I'm baking for the Express group since it's my friends last day before she leaves for her new job and I promised to bake one of my giant cookies for the guys at the Pantry.  The weekend is the only time I have to bake.  I can't really afford to be spending a lot of money on baking ingredients.  So time for some Budget Baking , checked what I had already in the house...

 Caught the show Food Unwrapped  on Channel 4 a few days ago. The premise is that they phone customer service lines of food  production companies and ask simple questions.  Like what type of wax is used on Lemon's?  How do you get the wax on the lemons? And why do they need to be waxed?  If they can't answer they go to the factory's themselves to see first hand.  I've now been put off buying waxed lemons for life!!!! The main ingredient they use is a "food safe" product called shellac.  Which is basically the harvested secretion of an Insect.  Ohh it gets even better.  The secretion is produced by the female laying eggs on tree branches, to protect them from predators.  The tree branches are harvested and placed in the sun too kill the insects, then scrapped off and processed down to a fine powder.  Before being combined with other chemicals to produce a liquid wax that can be sprayed on the fruit. Shella...