Recipe: Top banana cakes
Daily Mail
Sit 12 paper muffin or cupcake cases in suitable muffin or fairy cake tins. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, nutmeg and salt. Stir in the sugar. In a separate bowl, mix together the butter, eggs, vanilla, milk and mashed bananas

Delicious delve into cakes' past
Townsville Bulletin
Recipes for these small round cakes date back to the 12th century and the rhyme "Pat a cake, pat a cake baker's man, Bake me a cake as fast as you can" has been around in some form since Thomas D'Urfey's play, The Campaigners in 1698.

Review: 'Sugar Rush' by Donna Kauffman
USA TODAY
is cotton candy pink, and the bottom half is decorated with rows of cupcakes crowned with swirling mounds of tinted frosting sprinkled with glitter and crystals and the occasional candied heart — all bringing to mind the English term "fairy cake.

Nigella’s junior rival shows how to be a real spice girl
Yorkshire Post
The aspiring chef, from Huddersfield, first began cooking aged six when she used to help her mother and father bake fairy cakes and buns. Since then she has added a whole host of dishes to her repertoire, including chicken stir-fry with peppers and

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Angela Carter: a portrait in postcards
The Guardian
She wrote of the "silver gilt light on Brandon Hill" in 1969, jotted down a recipe for soup using the balls of a cock and, in her later pages, took notes on Ellen Terry's lectures on Shakespeare. She made, again and again, lists of books and lists of

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