Whisk together all the ingredients until smooth. Cover and refrigerate for one hour. Melt some butter in a frying pan over a medium-high heat. Pour some batter into the bottom of the pan, then lift and tilt the pan around so the batter forms an even coating. Cook for 40 seconds, then flip and cook […]
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Balsamic, mushroom and goat’s cheese pancake
Heat the oil for the filling in a frying pan over a medium-high heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, for 7-9 minutes until soft and caramelised. Add the garlic and cook for another minute until fragrant. Add the butter. When it begins to foam, add the mushrooms and thyme. Season with salt and […]
Mushroom, cheese and ham baked pancake
Once you’ve cooked the pancakes, wipe the pan clean and heat the oil over a medium-high heat. Cook the shallot for one minute, then add the mushrooms and cook for three minutes until soft. Season with salt and pepper. Pour in the wine. Bring to a boil and cook until the liquid has nearly evaporated. […]
How to: Decorate with fondant
Shannon Peare, one of Easy Food’s resident food stylists, shares her expertise on working with fondant. “Working with fondant takes me back to the days of playing with play dough. Fondant can be sculpted into fun designs or textured to look like fur, wood or even waves. Cakes covered in fondant have a beautiful, smooth […]
How to: decorate with fondant
Shannon Peare, one of Easy Food’s resident food stylists, shares her expertise on working with fondant. “Working with fondant takes me back to the days of playing with play dough. Fondant can be sculpted into fun designs or textured to look like fur, wood or even waves. Cakes covered in fondant have a beautiful, smooth […]
Unusual ingredients: Aquafaba
Not many foods have their own web pages, but www.aquafaba.com is dedicated solely to the liquid found in tins of chickpeas and beans. The website was registered in 2015 by a software engineer in Indiana, Goose Wohlt. Along with a 45,000-person Facebook group devoted to the liquid, Wohlt chose its name, combining the Latin words […]
Unusual ingredients: aquafaba
Not many foods have their own web pages, but www.aquafaba.com is dedicated solely to the liquid found in tins of chickpeas and beans. The website was registered in 2015 by a software engineer in Indiana, Goose Wohlt. Along with a 45,000-person Facebook group devoted to the liquid, Wohlt chose its name, combining the Latin words […]
Birthday cake
Preheat the oven to 180˚C/160˚C fan/gas mark 4 and grease and line two 20cm round sandwich tins. Whisk the first four ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Whisk together the remaining ingredients in a jug, then gradually stir this into the dry ingredients. Divide the batter between the two prepared tins. Bake for 50 minutes […]
Cookies and cream cake
Preheat the oven to 180˚C/160˚C fan/gas mark 4. Grease two 17cm deep sandwich tins and line with baking paper. Beat together the eggs, flour, caster sugar, butter and baking powder until smooth. Put the cocoa in a separate mixing bowl and gradually stir in the water to make a stiff paste. Add to this the […]
Basic chocolate ganache
Place the chocolate in a heat-proof mixing bowl. Heat the cream in a saucepan over a medium heat, stirring constantly. When bubbles have formed at the edges of the pan, remove it from the heat and pour the cream over the chocolate. Add the salt and leave the chocolate to stand for five minutes, without stirring, until […]