BBC Good Food

10 December 2009

"Was really excited about making this after reading all the great reviews and judging by the ingredients it sounded really delicious. Frankly I was underwhelmed, yes it was very nice, but so so nice that I cant wait to make it again, in fact I probably wont. If I do I'll definitely give the apricots a miss as I didn't like the flavour they added and I probably would use slightly less onion. Oh and be careful when roasting chestnuts I've never done them before and didn't realise that they can explode when cooking - it looked like it had been snowing in my oven when I discovered that!"

17 October 2009

"Was intrigued by the addition of parsnip in this recipe and felt I just had to try it. The cake was absolutely fantastic, very moist and tasty. I cooked it in 3 19inch cake tins as I has enough mixture left over and sandwiched it all together in into a triple layer cake, I also added the rest of the chopped pecans from the pack Id bought into mascapone/syrup mix before sandwiching the cake. Very yummy, my new favorite cake recipe."

10 May 2009

"This ginger cake is so easy to make and absolutely gorgeous. I did make a couple of changes, I only had Golden Syrup, so I used double quantity instead of Treacle, and I couldnt find any Stem Ginger in my local supermarket so I bought Ginger Conserve with chunks of stem ginger instead and put 120g in. The cake was lovely and moist, with lots of flavour. Definitely a keeper.... and I think I'll stick to my slightly modified version. It worked for me. :-)"

10 May 2009

"This ginger cake is so easy to make and absolutely gorgeous. I did make a couple of changes, I only had Golden Syrup, so I used double quantity instead of Treacle, and I couldnt find any Stem Ginger in my local supermarket so I bought Ginger Conserve with chunks of stem ginger instead and put 120g in. The cake was lovely and moist, with lots of flavour. Definitely a keeper.... and I think I'll stick to my slightly modified version. It worked for me. :-)"