Classic Caggs

In my eyes, a girls night in calls for a pretty special supper. My housemate Aimee and I had been talking for ages  about having baked Camembert, and we decided that seeing as it was only us in the house, tonight was the perfect opportunity to have it.  For rosemary and garlic baked Camembert you will need: 1 whole Camembert 2 cloves of garlic, sliced in half A few pinches of fresh rosemary Dipping implements - we went for a nice crusty ciabatta Preheat your oven to 180 ° C If you don't have a ceramic Camembert baker (and why on earth wouldn't you?!) then you can just wrap the Camembert in silver foil instead. Unwrap the Camembert and use a sharp knife to cut the top bit of rind off to expose the cheese beneath Place the Camembert in your ceramic baker (or on the silver foil) and stab the rosemary stalks into the cheese. Make a few slits and push the sliced garlic in.  Pop the sliced-off rind atop the cheese, put the lid on the ...

This is one of my absolute favourite vegetarian lasagne recipes. It's much less faff than the traditional minced beef one (which, don't get me wrong, I love too!) and is a whole lot healthier.  To make sweet potato and spinach lasagne you will need: 3 medium-sized sweet potatoes (approximately 700g) 1 tsp of dried sage (or 4 fresh sage leaves, chopped) 2cm knob of ginger, peeled and grated 500g mascarpone cheese 2 tbsp milk 1 egg 75g toasted pine nuts 100g parmesan 70g spinach leaves 10 lasagne sheets, or e nough sheets to make 2 layers of pasta   (but it'll be totally dependent on the dish you're layering everything up in!) A little bit of parmesan to grate on the top Preheat the oven to 170 ° C and kick things off by peeling and dicing your sweet potatoes, pouring over enough boiled water to cover then and cooking for 10 minutes until they're soft enough to mash In the mean time you can prepare the white sauce. Pop the sage, gr...

This is a bold claim, but I'm pretty sure this is the best cake I have ever made. Luckily I had saved the occasion for baking my best-cake-ever for one of my closest friend's birthdays. The cake itself has a whole blitzed up orange in it, meaning that it is not only really orangey (and very chocolatey), but also super moist. It is basically a Terry's chocolate orange in cake form.  The recipe is based on the  BBC Good Food  recipe (but I personally think mine looks much prettier!) To make the chocolate orange cake you will need: 1 large orange 100g dark chocolate 3 eggs 280g caster sugar 240ml sunflower oil 250g plain flour 25g cocoa powder 2tsp baking powder 100ml double cream 150g plain chocolate Terry's chocolate orange pieces to decorate Set a pan of boiling water on and push an apple corer through the middle of the orange. Place the orange in the boiling water for 20 minutes to soften it up. Blitz the whole orange and set to one side. Preheat...