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Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Win an Eric Lanlard Hamper with Silver Spoon and Macmillan Cancer Support



On the 28th of September this year the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning is going to be taking place. This is a fantastic one day fundraising event hosted by Macmillan Cancer Support to raise money for people with lives affected by cancer.
Silver Spoon, the homegrown sugar people, are the official sugar sponsor for the event, and this year have decided to launch a fantastic competition as part of their activity. On the 24th August 2012 Silver Spoon and Macmillan are launching Silver Spoons Little Local Hero Awards. They are scouring the country for local heroes under the age of 18 who have done something truly special. Your local little hero could have looked after their little sister when they were ill, gone to great lengths to make Mother’s Day very special, or done something fantastic to raise money for charity.
If you know someone under 18 in your local area who you think would be a worthy winner, just follow this link and explain in less than 100 words who you are nominating, why, and what you would bake them to say thank you www.macmillan.org.uk/littlehero



Master Pâtissier Eric Lanlard, star of Channel 4’s Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard, will choose a Silver Spoon National Little Hero and to celebrate he will bake them a special cake of their choice! 10 runners up will also receive a Silver Spoon Baking Hamper packed full of exciting treats.



There are sure to be some amazing stories from our local little heroes all over the country, but in the meantime don’t forget to register to hold your own coffee morning on the 28th September, just follow this link and you can help to raise money for people with lives affected by cancer. http://coffeeregister.macmillan.org.uk/2012/register.asp

We have a Macmillan coffee morning at work every year which I am singularly bad at finding time to bake for, mainly because it is generally at the end of the week and I do my baking at the weekend. However I do go along and EAT the cakes and make my donation.  If you would like some inspiration for what to bake for The World's Biggest Coffee Morning, then pop over to the Round up of the Cake Stall Cakes and Bakes for Tea Time Treats at Lavender and Lovage.  There were 68 entries, so there is bound to be something to suit your baking taste and ability.



Part One - Cake Stall Cakes and Bakes

Part Two - Cake Stall Cakes and Bakes

Tea Time Treats is run by Karen at Lavender and Lovage and Kate at What Kate Baked

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Wednesday, 1 August 2012

We Should Cocoa - Chocolate and Cherries

When Choclette, of the Chocolate Log Blog and co-owner of the  'We Should Cocoa' challenge, asked me to guest host while Chele of Chocolate Teapot was taking a break, I jumped at the chance.  Then the panic set in.  What would I choose to go with chocolate?  There have been a frightening number of WSC challenges and they cover a multitude of flavours.  I scanned the list and realised that there had been no challenge using CHERRIES!

 If you haven't heard about We Should Cocoa before, scroll down to the bottom of this post for details.


 My entry is this gorgeous Chocolate Cherry Cake  baked to a recipe by Jason Atherton from the Baking Mad.com website.  It's a bit like a cross between a giant chocolate brownie and a black forest gateau!  It's worth noting that it gets better with keeping, so make it a couple of days before you want to eat it.

Chocolate Cherry Cake


Preparation Time 25 minutes
Baking Time 25 minutes
Portions Serves 8-10

200g 70% cocoa solids chocolate broken
125g butter, unsalted, cubed
50g ground almonds
100g self raising flour (Allinson Nature Friendly)
4 Free Range Eggs, Large
125g Silver Spoon Homegrown Caster Sugar
2tbsp cherry jam
Fresh cherries to serve

1. Preheat oven to 180C/gas 4. Place chocolate and butter in a bowl over a pan of simmering water.  Melt, then cool and stir in ground almonds and flour.  In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs and sugar for 5 minutes, then fold the egg mixture into the chocolate.

 The egg mixture should look pale and frothy like this (above)

2. Line a 20cm cake tin with baking paper and spoon in the cake batter.  Bake for 20-25 minutes, until set but slightly soft in the centre. remove from the oven, allow to cook in the tin then transfer to a wire rack.  
Spread with warm cherry jam and top with fresh cherries.


The cake was made using British homegrown Silver Spoon Sugar


Silver Spoon sugars are made from sugar beet which is a large pale brown root crop, similar to parsnip which grows in the temperate climates of Europe and North America. The sugar beet that goes into Silver Spoon sugars travels a short distance to the factory (an average of only 28 miles) direct from the fields around Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia. Silver Spoon work with 1,200 local farmers to grown the beet, which is then made into their range of homegrown sugars for families all over the country.
 Silver Spoon are committed to reducing energy use, emissions and waste at every stage. All raw materials in the factory are aimed to be transformed into sustainable products.
Disclaimer: Baking Mad supplied me with the ambient ingredients for this recipe, I was not required to write a positive review and any opinion expressed is my own..


The idea is to make something with chocolate each month.  You can use any sort of chocolate or cocoa substance and use any ingredient that you like.  But you must include the special ingredient or ingredients selected by the host.  It can be sweet or savoury, simple or complicated; be as creative as you like.  You can use anyone’s recipe (acknowledging the source of course) or make up your own.


What to do?

1.     Post your recipe on your blog – accompanying photographs would be nice.
2.     Mention “We Should Cocoa” in your post and link back to Farmersgirl Kitchen  Chocolate Teapot and Chocolate Log Blog.  
3.  Add your entry to the Linky Tool below
4.     Entries should be submitted no later than midnight of the 25th of the month.
5.     The round up of entries will be posted on the relevant host’s blog on or before the last day of the month.
6.     The new challenge will be posted on the 1st of the month.
7.     If mentioning on Twitter you can use the tag #weshouldcocoa and I will endeavour to retweet.


Add your entry to the Linky Tool below


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