Deli Muru

19/06/2026

14/06/2026

POLENTA mini cakes filled with blueberries & raspberries topped with a sprinkling of coconut.

This theme is gluten free and the recipe is from Ginger & White cookbook with the added fruit and coconut topping!

Using
Biona Organic polenta
Doves Farm gluten free self-raising flour

Perfect with a cuppa at the campsite with friends, hence no photos!!

Simple bakes are often the tastiest…

07/06/2026

SERIOUSLY GOOD…

They should come with a warning ‼️

The most incredibly light sponge filled with just the right amount of sweetened cream and balanced with the a sharp jam.

NAPKIN CAKES with white chocolate cream and homemade gooseberries & elderflower jam.

Inspired recipe from from Baking and the Meaning of Life p.293

The only thing I switched was the jam as I’d made it this week to use in today’s theme SOUR and added freshly zested lemon to the sponge!

A tray of these makes the most perfect summer party dessert and I can’t recommend them enough!

SERIOUSLY GOOD!!!… did I say that already?

24/05/2026

HAPPY SUNNY SUNDAY ☀️

After a busy week of chemo, bloods and appointments I finally got to do something fun this weekend. Making one of my all time favourite desserts ‘puddings’ from childhood! This was my treat when we went to a little cafe in Tynemouth and if we were lucky Super Gran was being filmed!

I spent half a day with one of the best patisserie chefs here in Northern Ireland learning how to make BABA AU RHUM alongside fellow baking enthusiast Andrew.

From learning the skills to get the right texture for making the ‘bun’ base, not unlike brioche but a denser more gluten texture to hold what’s to come!! To then creating the layered ingredients, spiced dark rum syrup, which our buns would be drunkenly drowned in, to the homemade raspberry jam and vanilla mascarpone cream!

Swipe for the shots of making and creating.

Thank you to Daniel for sharing your knowledge so openly, answering our questions and for the best craic! Ideas were flying, the banter was great and the final results sensational 👌

My contribution for today’s Pudding theme for

PUDDING or as I like to call it call it comfort food…a big hug in a bowl!

17/05/2026

What would you say is an unpopular bake?

Is it one that you don’t like?
Gone out of fashion?
Or a regional bake that isn’t popular outside that region?

So I started off doing a summer pudding with my vintage jelly mould which turned out a disaster! It wouldn’t budge for many reasons, bread wrong type, too thick, I decided to add jelly etc, etc! No idea why I thought I would make this as soggy bread really doesn’t appeal at all and I can understand why it may have fallen out of favour for some. Don’t hate me if you love it’s just my personal preference.

So a quick switch to a popular in NI but unpopular bake [no bake] elsewhere that anyone can achieve and a great one to do with the kiddies!

FIFTEENS

Recipe above as you swipe, save for emergencies.

Plus a couple of my favourites that I’ve baked which came up when I searched unpopular bakes for todays theme

ENJOY x

10/05/2026

MERINGUE…
today’s theme for

Matilda cake from Baking & The Meaning of Life!

Thought it was appropriate as it’s Mother’s Day down under and no better cake to celebrate🌸🌼🌸

Switched up the fruit to something more seasonal for here in the Northern! hemisphere!

For all the Amazing mums 🧡

30/04/2026

Quindim a delicious sweet Brazilian coconut dessert! 🇧🇷

This didn’t quite work out as I’d hoped, there should have been a separation between the coconut base and egg custard on the top to give a beautiful yellow glossy topping!

I had a feeling while I was making it that the texture wasn’t right but followed the recipe I’d chosen… I’ll definitely do it again but with a different recipe. Plus I think I may have taken it out of the mould too quickly… I have no patience 🙈
Not all recipes are equal! And it’s always good to learn from mistakes…

It still tasted great & I love coconut I just needed a drizzle of dark chocolate!!!
I’m a dark chocolate bounty gal…🥥



Very late to the grid for 🇧🇷

19/04/2026

CHALLENGE…🤎

Do NOT eat!!!

Feeling a bit weary so decided to challenge myself not to bake today for as I’d baked a bit this week for a friend’s event…

I try and challenge myself every Sunday with a new bake so if you want to see some previous bakes scroll through the grid and hit like if something catches your eye…🤎

Check out the other bakes

12/04/2026

CLASSIC camper van weather, every season in one day…

So that means plenty of chilling and popping the kettle on with a slice of coffee cake, ginger cake or date & walnut on the side!!

Today’s classic cake selection for … enough for sharing with our fellow campers and friends.

Decided to give coffee & walnut and her ginger cake a go from The Irish Bakery cookbook, very traditional and classic recipes that are winners time and time again, passed down for generations!! 💚

Coffee cake was my favourite as a child and I still love it… I used make it for a very dear friend of mine, who sadly is no longer with us, so it’s been a while since I’ve made it!

You just can’t beat a classic cake recipe! The date & walnut is my m**s! [recipe a few grids back].

It’s so important we don’t loose these family recipes.

What’s your favourite classic cake?