Sugar paste icing

Just found out about these gorgeous fairtrade sugar pastes at http://www.squires-shop.com/uk/product/sk-sunshine-yellow-sugarpaste-250g


Loads of beautiful colours!

Five brown buns in a ...

Made sultana rolls today by adapting a Mary Berry recipe for Cinnamon Rolls from her Complete Cookbook* .

Fairtrade ingredients were:




^Traidcraft Caster Sugar


^Traidcraft Sultanas


Vanilla Essence bought in Mauritius






*Berry, M. 2012. Mary Berry's Complete Cookbook. London. Dorling Kindersley

^Traidcraft Sugar from Fairer World, 84 Gillygate, York. Fairer World or

Traidcraft Online Shop

Stained Glass Window Biscuits

This brilliant biscuit recipe was in Christian Aid Magazine 2014.  See the  

Christian Aid website for the recipe and a lovely photo of the biscuits.  I used only half the recipe ingredients and got two whole trays of biscuits.

I used Traidcraft F/T Golden Caster Sugar* in substitute for the soft brown and you can use F/T Ground Ginger^ but I left it out.

*Traidcraft Sugar from Fairer World, 84 Gillygate, York. Fairer World or

Traidcraft Online Shop

^Several shops and online sites sell F/T Ground Ginger.

Auntie Susan's Favourite Apple Cake - again

 

Had a second go at this cake from 'Bake a difference'*.  This time with ingredients cut down so it fits a 20cm/8 inch tin.  Had to divide by 6 and multiply by 5. Worked brilliantly!
It was gorgeous with plain yogurt instead of caramel sauce.

Used F/T walnuts this time.


*Rawlinson, B. 2014, Bake a difference. Gateshead, UK. Traidcraft plc

Mary Berry's Apple and Sultana Dessert Cake

A brilliant cake, which I used to make years ago when my children were small.  It's made even more brilliant by using fairtrade ingredients.  It's also very handy to make with the glut of apples that are around at the moment. And it actually goes in an 8" or 20 cm round cake tin which I happen to have!

You can find it in several versions of the book 'Fast Cakes'*.


It needs 100g caster sugar so I used Traidcraft's  lovely natural caster from Mauritius.
The 50g sultanas were from Traidcraft^ too. I bought them both at Fairer World in York.


* Mary Berry (1981) Fast Cakes. London, Sphere books (and later editions).
^ Traidcraft.  Traidcraft
   Fairer World, 84 Gillygate, York  Fairer World

Auntie Susan's Favourite Apple Cake

This recipe from Bake a Difference* page 57 went down particularly well.  Also, it has the advantage that you can put 100g of any F/T fruit and nuts you happen to have in your storecupboard. I used 50g of Zaytoun Premium almonds from Fairer World^ (blanched and sliced) and 50g of Traidcraft sultanas.


I didn't make the caramel sauce because it was tasty without it.  And without the sauce, it is one of the healthiest cakes I've made recently.


*Rawlinson, B. 2014, Bake a difference. Gateshead, UK. Traidcraft plc
^Fairer World, 84 Gillygate, York. Fairer World

Aunt Glad's Lemon Cake (only Orange)

This was a great hit!  The recipe is on page 13 in Bake a difference*.  I had no lemons so I had to use oranges.  I changed it slightly: only using 50 grams of F/T caster sugar in the topping instead of 100.




As I had to use oranges, I grated the rind of two oranges to put in the cake mixture and used the juice of one orange in the topping.




Both the sugars came from Traidcraft.



*Rawlinson, B. 2014, Bake a difference. Gateshead, UK. Traidcraft plc.