Break brioche up into a blender, add the fennel fronds, blend until fine and the brioche turns green. Place lid onto pot and braise shank in 170 degrees Celsius oven for 1 1/2 hours or until lamb is ...

When I learned that baking powder wasn’t invented until the late 1840s, I wondered how cakes ― which need some type of leavening agent to produce a fluffy, soft crumb ― used to get made. Ancient Roman ...

When autumn comes, a whole new season of entertaining begins. Small dinner parties, club and charity meetings, cocktail get-togethers, big holiday open houses. No matter the size and type of event, a ...

THE Great British Bake Off is back on our screens and it’s got us all inspired in the kitchen. But what is the infamous genoise sponge all about, and how do you go about making one..? A Genoise sponge ...

During the infamous cake week, we watched the Great British Bake Off contestants tackle not just one genoise sponge but THREE during the technical challenge. A genoise sponge is the main star in the ...

Genoise cake GENOISE is an Italian sponge cake made with vanilla, sugar, eggs and flour. Baked and cooled, the genoise is a simple cake recipe, spruced up with butter-cream frosting. You can flavour ...

When I add melted butter to sponge cake mix, it loses all the trapped air and turns to slop. H. Knight What you are referring to is a genoise sponge or, according to Mrs Dorothy Floate, a "Victorian ...