Recipes I've 'Pinned' and Tried.

Due to my recent string of success through finding recipes that actually worked on Pintrest, I thought it was about time I shared a few of them. It seems that whatever craving one might have, there is a recipe for it somewhere in the depths of these virtual pin boards. I love having great recipes that I haven't gotten round to writing down anywhere yet all stored in one place where they can't get lost (or covered in cake mixture as usually happens.)

1) My first success of late has been the 'cookie in a cup.' Normally, I'm not a fan of microwaves and hardly ever use them unless i'm quickly reheating a dessert or something, but on this occasion I quite fancied a cookie but didn't have much time to bake one. I found a few pins that would make 2 cookies but then the link below it caught my eye:
Here is the recipe I used.
It turned out surprisingly tasty and was ready in under a minute. I couldn't finish it all because it was actually quite big in the cup so I saved some for later. It tastes best when it's warm though!

Here is my cookie in the cup!

2) Though I do generally swear by The Hummingbird Bakery vanilla cupcake recipe, I found another website that I liked the look of and tried their version. The joy of baking is a great website that has lots of great video tutorials and tips for making great cake! I highly recommend this recipe, though I still think the Hummingbird Bakery's frosting is the best on earth.

3) The next find comes from Martha Stewart, one of my all round heros. I've baked quite a few of her recipes including this one that I added to pintrest. It was such an easy and rather yummy cake, but I didn't add any frosting. 

4) My favourite find has to be 'Sally's Baking Addiction.' Though this American concept of using 'ready made mixture' as a valid ingredient when baking cakes is something completely alien to me - a lot of her recipes look really fun. The first one I've tried has been Dark Chocolate, Banana and Raspberry Bread. This cake disappeared in about the time it took to bake it. I did find that it was really hard to tell if it was baked or not due to all the melty ingredients but thankfully, it wasn't raw in the middle. I took half of it on a trip to see my old University buddy and it went down very well there too. I will be making it again for sure!

Apologies for the bad quality photos! My banana bread!

5) This website also has some great tips, after I saw the sauce drizzling one, I put some of those bottles on my Christmas list and can't wait to use them! Much neater and easier than using piping bags and such like.

6) Of course my board is also full of pins from The Pioneer Woman. She has made some amazing looking Sheet Cakes but before I can start on those, I need to find a cake pan big enough! That is next on my kitchen 'to buy' list.

7) A while ago, I bought a Bundt Cake tin and have been busy collecting recipes to make for that. I'd like that to be my next experiment - i'm thinking blueberry would be a nice place to start so i'm swaying towards this recipe: Blueberry Almond.

If you'd like to see my ever growing 'Cakies and Bakies' board - check it out right here.

Much Love xxx