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Celebrate the joy of Scotland's larder with recipes, reviews, tips and delicious ideas!

Helping you get the best from Scotland's wonderful natural larder with weekly recipes, reviews, tips and delicious ideas from some of Scotland's top chefs!

The Kitchen Café: Kirsty Wark sits in

Kirsty Wark sits in

23/05/2012

BBC Radio Scotland - The Kitchen Café, Kirsty Wark sits in

Celebrity Masterchef finalist Kirsty Wark discovers the secrets of baking clubs.

Join Celebrity Masterchef finalist Kirsty Wark to discover the secrets of baking clubs, explore allspice, and bake the perfect scone.

Join Celebrity Masterchef finalist and baking fan Kirsty Wark on this weeks Kitchen Café.

Home baking has seen a recent surge in popularity. This has led to the formation of baking clubs - but what exactly do you do at a baking club. Do you bake cake or just eat cake or both? Gillian Russell joins the Edinburgh Cake Ladies for a day and finds out that they are not all ladies.

How much of baking a cake is an art and how much is a science? What elements of baking must you be strict about sticking to the recipe with and which bits can you freestyle. Lea Harris, the only Scottish finalist on The Great British Bake Off along with cook Wendy Barrie join Kirsty Wark to give us a baking masterclass.

In this month's Spice Cupboard Ghillie Basan looks at uses for All Spice.

Scones are the nemesis of any home baker or professional alike so how do you make the perfect scone? Should they be sweet or savoury? And what combinations of ingredients work best? 

In The Kitchen Café Takeaway, Lea Harris bakes the perfect Carrot Cake.

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