Hi! My name’s Nichola and I’m a dietitian who loves to bake and eat nutritious food! I started blogging in January 2012 as a way of promoting healthy eating in a readable and accessible manner and was lucky enough to be given my very first Herman Cake (starter mixture) in June. Finding [read more...]
by Hannah Walker Inspired by the gluten-free version of Herman on your website, I went ahead and made a gluten-free Herman starter, and have handed out some of the portions and made a cake with the remainder. It came out brilliantly! For the starter, I simply used Doves Plain White gluten-free flour blend, instead [read more...]
Hello! With Christmas just around the corner I thought I’d post a recipe that can be made for both you or as a gift for someone else. This pumpkin granola recipe is delicious and is very festive too! I put my granola in an empty candle jar and added a little bow with the intention of giving [read more...]
So, the days and nights really are getting chilly here in England which means more time for baking (hurray!). Lots of you have commented on how you like to add different textures and flavours to your Herman Cakes and I wondered if anyone had used pumpkin?! I bought canned pumpkin for the first [read more...]
by Elspeth Barraclough My mother always told me not to play with my food, but I often find myself unable to resist. Having contemplated it for a while, and then been spurred on by the discussion in the comments, I decided to have a go at a ‘real’ sour-dough cake, that is one raised using [read more...]
by Chloe McKell I have been caring for my Herman starter for around three months now and the delicious cakes have become a weekly treat in our house. I have experimented with many of the recipes on the Herman website and loved almost all of them including some delicious Herman bread. I like [read more...]
Buns and cakes are ALWAYS in fashion. Whether it’s a birthday celebration, Halloween or Christmas, everybody likes an excuse to do some baking (well I do at least!). This month, I thought I’d share with you my top ‘healthier frosting’ mixes. Regular frostings are loaded with butter and sugar – the recipes below [read more...]
by Cheryl I’ve tried some of the bread recipes shown, and they seem to taste a bit “sweet”, no good for a ham sandwich. So I’ve been playing around with Herman and I think I’ve cracked it. To prevent Herman Bread tasting too sweet, you need to make an adjustment on “Day 9”. [read more...]
Don’t you just wish you could eat cake and not gain weight? The truth is, most people do not gain weight from eating ‘the odd bit of cake’ as it’s actually the regular day-to-day eating that matters more. I promote the 80:20 rule when it comes to eating: if you’re eating healthily [read more...]
My Top 5 Healthy Baking Tips! Baking doesn’t have to be unhealthy. Here are my top tips on how to either reduce the calorie content or boost the nutritional goodness of your baking. Add fruit. Dried fruit is packed with antioxidants, nutrients and fibre and goes well in most baking dishes. Try [read more...]
by James Pollard Whilst i was outside cleaning the car my neighbour came over and we got chatting, she said she was baking a cake and wondered if I had a large cake tin she could borrow, after a further conversation it transpired she was making a herman cake, I found this quite [read more...]
by Barbara I love your site I refer to it all the time. I had my first Herman a few weeks ago and since then I am hooked and have made 3 myself. The basic, a strawberry and white chocolate and my 3rd and so far best Herman cake a crystalised ginger, apricot [read more...]
I had never heard of Herman before, when I received my mix and although I love trying new recipes and baking, especially banana breads, my first thoughts were, oh heck! What do I do? Will it be easy? I was worried about killing him or the cat eating him (yes my cat does [read more...]
I live in Britain, so use grams, because we do not have standard cup sizes. This makes a moist cake which is inspired by cherry bakewell tarts. The use of sour instead of glacé cherries cuts through the sweetness of the cake with a delightful tartness. I use less sugar that the standard Herman [read more...]
by Linda Gray Today I made a cherry and almond Herman cake; both flavours are my husband’s favourite . I used tin black cherries in stead of apple , I first soaked them in amaretto, I used glacé cherries in place of the sultanas. I also changed the vanilla essence to almond extract. I topped [read more...]
Ultimate Sticky Carrot, Apple and Pecan Herman cake We have a tradition of Bake week where I work at Logistik, and when a colleague gave me a portion of traditional Herman and it was my turn to bake for the office, I wanted to see what happened if I took Herman to the [read more...]
by Hazel I first met with ‘Herman’ in the 1980’s, when my children where young and good friend gave me the starter. (Oh yes, I know that ages me….) I was given instructions that had been typed on a type-writer (remember them?) and then copied on the very strange paper that we had [read more...]
by Helen My girls love their breakfast pancakes. They don’t take long to make and it all stemmed from doing finger foods when my eldest was a baby, pancakes were a quick and easy finger food and could pretty much include anything you like (her particular favourite was banana and banana yoghurt ones).I used [read more...]
I’m a wheelchair user in a care home. I was given Herman by a friend from Church. An entertaining thing to do! He’s turned out OK – would comment though that I had to put him in for much longer than stated, even in my fan oven, and even then he’s crunchy on [read more...]
by Maddie Hi, I’m Herman. I am a project in Mrs McIntosh’s P5\6 class, in Methlick Primary School, Scotland. All the children got their names put into a hat, and three lucky people would get their names pulled out! Maddie got her name drawn out of the hat and so she was the [read more...]