KUMPULAN MASTER BLOG

Happy New Year! Hope 2018 has been a good year for you.   I have been doing my annual rootle through my blog statistics for the year, to see what 2018 most popular recipes are on The Improving Cook blog. Much like the last two years, slow cooker recipes feature heavily, as you'd expect. Interestingly though, all the cake and dessert recipes have been knocked out by more dinner recipes. Read on to see which recipes made the list, followed up with some 2018 blog stats. There are some quite big changes, lots of new entries- read on to find out more! 1.  Slow Cooker Leek and Potato Soup The most popular recipe every year for the last three years, it's easy to make and perfect for winter lunches. My slow cooker leek and potato soup recipe is also the most-visited recipe on the blog ever. It had nearly 16,000 hits this year alone. 2.  Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken One of my personal favourite recipes, it has never featured in the top ten before. I made it as part of a Mexican feast thi

Cranberry Yoghurt Bundt Cake- a light sponge cake dotted with fresh cranberries and decorated with glace icing. An easy alternative to Christmas cake. This cranberry cake uses fresh cranberries, not dried. It came about because I bought a bag of fresh cranberries and was keen to find something (other than cranberry sauce) to make with them. I searched and searched and found virtually no cake recipes with fresh cranberries. So, I adapted a yoghurt cake recipe of mine to create this cake. Cranberries are tart in their fresh state. They are usually dried with sugar, but, when fresh, they are packed full of anti-oxidents and Vitamins A, C and K. This cake is light and only slightly sweet in taste, helped by the tart cranberries. I decided to cook the fresh cranberries into a quick jam, just to take the edge off the cranberries sharp taste and to make it easier to spread the cranberries through the cake. I then topped it off with a little plain glace icing and the result was delicious! Cran