Rowan's Baking

Chocolate biscuits, sponge cakes and Scottish shortbread. Written the way I actually make them, mistakes included.

Fresh out of the oven

Chocolate-Dipped Caramel Biscuits
Bakes, 1 hr 20 min
My most-requested bake. Soft shortbread rounds with a sticky caramel centre, completely dunked in milk chocolate. Eleven of these disappear before they even cool.
Deep Chocolate Brownies
Bakes, 40 min
Cream-Filled Victoria Sponge
Cakes, 1 hr
Nutella Pancakes with Marshmallow
Bakes, 30 min

Rowan greasing a baking tray at the kitchen sink

Sixteen, Scottish, and baking since I was eight

This blog is where I share everything: the recipes I'm proud of, the ones I had to remake four times, and the new styles I'm working through this year.

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The bake gallery

Rowan proudly showing her tray of chocolate-dipped caramel biscuits — Eleven biscuits, all mine

Chocolate-dipped biscuit cut in half revealing sticky caramel filling — The inside is the best bit

Victoria sponge with piped cream rosettes and icing sugar — Piping finally clicked

Stack of Nutella pancakes with marshmallow and fresh strawberries — Saturday morning sorted

Pancake decorated as a smiley face with strawberries and whipped cream — A face only a baker could love

Rowan pouring chocolate brownie batter into a lined tin — Batter o’clock

Rowan working green pistachio matcha batter into a baking tin — Going hands-in on the matcha bake

Rowan cutting shortbread rounds from a baked slab — Shortbread, Gran’s recipe

Rowan's Baking

Fresh out of the oven

Chocolate-Dipped Caramel Biscuits

Deep Chocolate Brownies

Cream-Filled Victoria Sponge

Nutella Pancakes with Marshmallow

Sixteen, Scottish, and baking since I was eight

The bake gallery