Bessie's Bakery

24/04/2022

Not as perfect as I would have liked but my little one year old loved eating it, and that’s all that matters 💙👦🏼💙

21/04/2022

Cake base ready to assemble my son’s first birthday cake tomorrow 🥹🥹🥹💙👶🏼💙

17/04/2022

Maryna from the Ukraine who hosted the bake sale yesterday ❤️🇺🇦❤️:

Hi everyone.

Thank you so much to everyone who bought and brought cakes this morning; it was lovely to meet so many people and I'm very grateful for all the support that we received, both in donations and kindness.

To those who were unable to attend but would still like to make a contribution, you can donate money to our cause via the JustGiving link below.

Thanks again! Слава Україні! 🇺🇦

justgiving.com/crowdfunding/food-for-ukraine

16/04/2022

How has it been nearly two years since I made a cake! I have been pretty distracted with our precious little boy, Coby, who is now very nearly ONE year old!👶🏼💙❤️💙 The idea that I thought I’d be able to casually make cakes during Mat leave cracks me up 🤣

Donating this three layer Victoria sponge today to bake sale at St Martins Parish Centre in Knebworth to raise money for open to purchase cakes from 10am until 12 noon today, get yourselves down there! 🎂🧁🍰 ☕️🇺🇦❤️

09/10/2020

Hi everyone! I’ve been away for a long while due to lockdown delaying our house move and my baking equipment being in storage for 7 months! Thankfully we moved in last week and are starting to find our feet again so I’ll be back with more tutorials soon. I hope you are all surviving this very odd year. For now here is my Pumpkin cupcake tutorial linked below from last Autumn, great to make with children and not too tricky at all 👍🎃🎃🎃❤️

Wow, how this video has dated in less than a year, I mention Brexit - who remembers those happy heady days 🤣

This is a fun and easy Autumn / Fall baking activity to do with your children during Pumpkin season or a great looking treat to make for a Thanksgiving party...

15/05/2020

Pear caramel upside down cake: I don’t know about you but I always seem to have a lot of fruit left at the end of the week, that’s what happens when you live with a Scotsman 😂 so this is a simple recipe to utilise your left over fruit, I’ve used pears but you can use apples, oranges or pineapple. You wil need:
100g dark brown soft sugar
60g butter
2-4 pears peeled and sliced (or fruit of your choice)
90g butter
90g caster sugar
2 eggs beaten
180g plain flour
1.5 teaspoons baking powder
80ml milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla paste or extract
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Peel and cut the pears/fruit (remember to cut out cores).
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Grease 8-10 inch tin with butter.
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Melt butter in pan on a low heat and stir in the dark brown sugar, when it is bubbling as in photo 6, pour into the greased cake tin and arrange the pears on top as per photo 7.
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Whisk/beat the butter and caster sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy.
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Add in two beaten eggs and mix slowly, add a bit of flour if it curdles, which it probably will but that doesn’t matter as it will all come together when you put the flour in.
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Mix in milk and vanilla with wooden spoon.
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Add the Plain flour and baking powder then whisk/beat until smooth as per picture 12
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Pour into tin with the pears and level off with a knife.
Pop in preheated oven at 180 for 30-35 or until golden brown. Take out of oven, leave to cool for 10 minutes then turn out so the cake is upside down with pears on top. Serve with ice cream or cream and enjoy 😋 Send me your photos if you try this recipe out 💜
Head over to my YouTube channel here https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCn-KmU2HhegWjwS-y-eBujg for more baking and cake decorating tutorials such as; classic Victoria sponge, cheese scones, Kit Kat cake, drip effect cake and much more! 💜💛💚

03/05/2020

Cheesecake Brownies, here we go! 😍😋 You will need an 8 inch by 11/12 inch tin, or just improvise like me and use any tin you have 😂, if a smaller tin cook for bit longer if bigger tin cook for 5 minutes less. Ingredients;
Brownie mix
135g chocolate
120g butter
220g caster sugar
90g plain flour
2 medium eggs
Cheesecake mix
150g cream cheese
30g caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla paste (optional)
1 medium egg
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Melt the butter and chocolate for the brownies in a heat proof bowl over saucepan with an inch of boiling water in (make sure water doesn’t touch bottom of bowl because it can burn the chocolate), the result should be a smooth, glossy mixture as per picture 3.
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Stir in the sugar = pic 5
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Stir in the flour = pic 7
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Stir in the two eggs = pic 9
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Grease tin with butter
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Cut a circle/square/rectangular piece of grease proof or baking parchment for bottom of your baking tin
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Pour in brownie mixture - keep a few tablespoons to one side for after you’ve added cheesecake mixture
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Mix all cheesecake ingredients together with hand whisk in a bowl until smooth.
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Drop/pour the cheesecake mixture on top of brownie mix in your baking tin, then add the few tablespoons of brownie mix that you set to one side on top of the cheesecake mix and swirl it all together making a marble pattern, using a cocktail stick or a knife.
Pop in oven for approximately 30 - 35 minutes at 170, the centre should still be gooey and edges fairly firm. It should look better than mine because I forgot to set aside some brownie mix to put on top of cheesecake mix - so send me some pics of your creations 😂🥴❤️ Let cool and turn out of tin - refrigerate after 1st serving ... if your family don’t eat it all in one go that is 😂
If you want more ideas for baking/cake decorating at home head over to my YouTube channel where there are loads of baking tutorials https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCn-KmU2HhegWjwS-y-eBujg
Hope everyone is staying safe 💜💚💛

02/05/2020

Cheesecake brownie recipe coming tomorrow 💜💚💛

01/05/2020

So you can’t order in a special cake for a family birthday/celebration cake. Why not use my easy to follow tutorial, linked below, to make this easy Kit Kat chocolate cake instead, you can fill the centre with your favourite sweets or chocolates (would be malteasers or skittles for me!) 💜💚💛

This is a really great recipe for a light and fluffy chocolate cake sponge with a beautifully silky/light chocolate frosting, yum! You can dress the cake up ...