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Using your loaf to transform a popular cereal

Jan 24, 2025 | keighleynews.co.uk | Keighley’s Mike Armstrong

By Keighley’s Mike Armstrong, an award-winning master baker with a big passion for baking... LET'S bake a fatless and high-fibre cake this week, as I'm sure most of us will still be on our diets after eating all those mince pies at Christmas! This fat-free and easy-to-make Weetabix (other brands are available) cake sounds just too good to be true, doesn't it? Well I promise you, it isn't. It doesn't even require a lot of mixing – it's that easy.
A dessert to toast Scotland's national bard

Jan 17, 2025 | keighleynews.co.uk | Keighley’s Mike Armstrong

By Keighley’s Mike Armstrong, an award-winning master baker with a big passion for baking... WITH Christmas and the New Year well and truly behind us, the next event we can all look forward to is Burns Night next Saturday (January 25). It is an important date in the Scottish national calendar. Burns Night is an annual celebration of Scotland's most famous poet, Robert Burns. Born in Ayr, Burns was more than just a poet. He produced hundreds of poems and letters.
Head over heels for a delicious winter warmer

Jan 10, 2025 | keighleynews.co.uk | Keighley’s Mike Armstrong

By Keighley’s Mike Armstrong, an award-winning master baker with a big passion for baking... IF a roast chicken, golden and glistening, is a showstopper stiletto of a dish, the pie that inevitably follows is a comfortable slipper – not as glamorous perhaps, but infinitely nicer to slip into on a cold, bleak January evening when we tend to seek plainer foods.
Festive favourite is surrounded in superstitions

Dec 6, 2024 | keighleynews.co.uk | Keighley’s Mike Armstrong

By Keighley’s Mike Armstrong, an award-winning master baker with a big passion for baking... DECEMBER is finally upon us, which means for most of us we are in full-on festive fever! Our thoughts go to putting up the Christmas tree, the kids have written their lists to Santa and we are on a mission to have our houses constantly looking and smelling of Christmas. And what better way to achieve that than with a batch of freshly-baked Viennese whirl mince pies?
Pudding serves up 'hug in a bowl'

Nov 29, 2024 | keighleynews.co.uk | Keighley’s Mike Armstrong

By Keighley’s Mike Armstrong, an award-winning master baker with a big passion for baking... I LOVE autumn. I love the colours and smells of crisp leaves underfoot, I love apples at this time of year, and I love comforting puddings like Eve's pudding. Most people will have forgotten about Eve's pudding, so here's a little reminder of what you've been missing out on! The name of course comes from the Biblical story of Adam and Eve, when Eve tempted Adam with the apple.
A timeless dessert that deserves respect

Nov 22, 2024 | keighleynews.co.uk | Keighley’s Mike Armstrong

By Keighley’s Mike Armstrong, an award-winning master baker with a big passion for baking... WANT to make a delicious apple strudel for tea tonight? Try this amazing recipe, which definitely is worth the effort! Did you know apple strudel is known as apfel strudel in German? This timeless dessert is created from freshly-made strudel dough and packed with spiced apples and raisin filling. It's also a very popular Austrian dessert and is eaten in many regions of Europe too.
Wind of change saw baps rise in popularity

Nov 15, 2024 | keighleynews.co.uk | Keighley’s Mike Armstrong

By Keighley’s Mike Armstrong, an award-winning master baker with a big passion for baking... A BAP is, at its simplest, a bread roll. At its more complicated, it is a tender pillow of dough, often made with milk, lard and butter. The bap is the ideal bread for a simple meat sandwich. Whether the meat is leftover boiled beef, ham, bacon or sausages, the bap takes a simple meat and elevates it to one of the most steadying sandwiches a person could crave.
A uniform way to end summer of fun

Aug 16, 2024 | keighleynews.co.uk | Mike Armstrong |Keighley’s Mike Armstrong

Banana split (Image: submitted) By Keighley’s Mike Armstrong, an award-winning master baker with a big passion for baking... I DO hope everyone has had a good summer holiday and the weather's been kind. All this got me thinking of the school holidays coming towards an end and the August bank holiday looming. I remember those last weeks of the school summer holiday – being dragged off our bikes and into town for school uniform for the new term.
Saddle-up, bon ami, for a wheely delicious pastry

Jul 5, 2024 | keighleynews.co.uk | Alistair Shand |Keighley’s Mike Armstrong

By Keighley’s Mike Armstrong, an award-winning master baker with a big passion for baking... WHO could resist a Paris-Brest? A gourmet creation par excellence, few sweet-toothed people would turn their nose up at this French flagship pastry. The Paris-Brest was created in 1910 and has delighted tastebuds ever since, but who was the inventor?
Tastes change but room for dollop of nostalgia

May 31, 2024 | keighleynews.co.uk | Mike Armstrong |Keighley’s Mike Armstrong

By Keighley’s Mike Armstrong, an award-winning master baker with a big passion for baking... THERE are some recipes that seem to bring a sense of nostalgia. A treat that was always made in granny's kitchen, or a family favourite recipe torn out of a magazine long faded but always remembered, food really does have the power to take you back to a time gone by.