Baking

Cakes of 2010

Not all of them by any means, but here is a selection of the cakes I made in 2010. Plenty more to come in 2011 🙂

Yule-Blog Bake Challenge

A while ago I was invited to take part in the Most Wanted Yule-Blog Bake Challenge, and as I’m always up for a baking challenge I thought I’d have a go. The brief was to bake, photograph and blog something that represents Christmas to you, the only rule being that it has to be a...

December Bake It! Recipe – Mincemeat Squares

Firstly, thanks to those of you who baked the recipe last month, hope you enjoyed it. I’ve seen quite a few tweets about people enjoying it, but there weren’t many posts on the linky! The winner of the cookie cutter prize is Kim from ‘Cakes from Kim‘ – congratulations! Please can you email me your...

Mincemeat

I love mincemeat and anything you can make with it, and because of this I was very pleased when Sainsbury’s asked if I would like to try some of their Taste the Difference Mincemeat. If I have time, I usually like to make my own because I can add what I like and leave out anything...

Bake-a-boo

  There’s nothing I love better on a cold evening than snuggling down with a cookery book, flicking through and planning what I’m going to cook and bake. This time of year is the best because Christmas provides the perfect opportunity to bake and try out some new recipes. So I was delighted to be...

Home Bake

I love cookery books, especially anything to do with baking and cake decorating, so much so that I had to have two extra shelves put up in the kitchen to house them all! So I was very excited when I asked if I’d like to review a copy of Home Bake by Eric Lanlard. I’m...

Simple is best

Some days you just don’t want to spend ages decorating fancy cupcakes that children will pick to pieces, so today I decided simple is best. They’re messy but I’m sure they’ll go down well! Perhaps I should pretend the children decorated them? 🙂

November Bake It! recipe – Fudgy Chocolate Pudding

I know, we’re already 11 days into November and I’ve only just got round to sorting out the recipe for this month! I do apologise! Those of you who follow me on twitter will have noticed I have been working on a project, which has been keeping me very busy, and the deadline was this...

A few cakes

Just realised I haven’t blogged any cake pictures for a while, so here are a few I’ve made recently. A 21st birthday cake for one of the staff at Faith’s nursery. A few cupcakes I iced as a demonstration in one of my cupcake classes. Mini cupcakes tower that I donated to the ‘Revealing Experience...

Gingerbread men and Halloween cookies

No matter which crafts the girls and I try, you can always be sure that some kind of baking or cake decorating will feature regularly. So we were all delighted when Silver Spoon sent us a bag of goodies to try out. We had squeezy icing tubes, food colours, jelly drops and mini chocolate beans...

Witch Craft

I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your attention that there is nothing I like better than a good bit of crafting and cooking, and what better time for crafty activities than Halloween?! So I was really excited to receive a review copy of this book – Witch Craft, compiled by Margaret McGuire and Alicia Kachmar. It...

October Bake It! recipe – sticky ginger cake

Hope you all enjoyed last month’s recipe – I certainly had some very positive feedback. Congratulations to Gemma from Growing My Family Tree who was the winner of the cupcake book. Look forward to seeing any cupcake ideas you try out 🙂 Now the weather is turning cold and damp I thought I’d try out...