Rachel
BBC Good Food Member since 16 February 2008
My Latest favourites recipes
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Crispy chilli beef with broccoli
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Decadent chocolate truffle torte
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The ultimate makeover: Carrot cake
Last comments I've made
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24 October 2009
"My husband and I absolutely love this, had it with coconut rice and the combination was gorgeous! Made it with the full amount of sugar the first time and it tasted amazing but will try it with less next time to ease the guilt!"
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09 February 2009
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09 February 2009
"Made these with twice the amount of baking powder and 2 eggs, as some people have suggested, but they turned out not only heavy and dense but very egg-flavoured! Am jealous of those who have said theirs turned out perfectly with no problems! Have since made raspberry muffins from a recipe where you cream the butter into the sugar first then gradually add flour and wet ingredients, and these turned out much lighter and more muffin-like."
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11 November 2008
"We got our poppy seeds from a larger Co-op store, but I have since seen them in Sainsbury's/Tesco. Maybe Sally burnt her sugar, as you have to be very careful when melting sugar and we had no problems at all by heating it very slowly and gently. I think next time we make this we'll try cutting up all of the caremelised oranges and incorporating them into the cake mixture, as the cake itself was dry in areas which didn't have orange next to them."
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22 June 2008
"I found the ideal loaf tin size is 21 x 11cm (8 x 4 inches). Looked in 3 different shops before we found poppy seeds, but the cake turned out perfectly. We used a quarter of a teaspoon of baking powder. It took the longer cooking time of about 62 mins for a knife to come out of the cake clean. Disappointingly, the icing didn't look at all like the icing in the picture above - it was clear and there was a lot of it, and it all just sank into the cake and made it taste very intensely marmaladey at the edges. I think this may be because we used very juicy oranges so there was too much liquid. The caremelised oranges on the top of the cake seemed a bit pointless as they didn't attach to the cake in any way, so we took them off, but the cake tastes good and overall was a great success!"
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