Sunshine cake
We always seem to have a couple of oranges languishing in the fruit bowl and half a tin of pineapple hanging around so, very sensibly, Faith suggested I make an orange and pineapple cake. A girl after my own heart! A while ago I signed up to receive monthly food boxes from Flavourly and was very...
Chocolate, stout and ginger cake
For Christmas, my sister paid for my brother-in-law and stepdad to have a tour of West Berkshire Brewery. We often buy our beer from there, especially over Christmas time or for family get-togethers, so Dale and I thought we’d buy ourselves places and tag along too! And I’m so glad we did as it was...
Iced Bakewell Slices
I think it’s fair to say that Bakewell Tart is one of our family’s favourite treats. It’s the one thing that is always requested at family gatherings and is always the first to go! So, when I found some pastry that needed to be used up in the fridge and Duerr’s kindly sent me a...
Peanut Butter Cookies
These cookies were a special request from Faith. She decided that she wanted cookies as an after school treat, which gave me the perfect excuse to bake! I added some milk chocolate chips to them, also at her request, but you could either leave them out or experiment and add other things – white chocolate...
My 2013 baking list
I wrote this post in drafts at the start of the year and, typically, just as I get round to posting it, my oven breaks! We turned it on to preheat a few days ago but after a couple of minutes there was a flash of light, a loud pop and then nothing. It may...
Join me for #StorkBaking
Have you been busy baking ready for Christmas or are you still looking for some recipe inspiration? Either way, you should definitely join me over on twitter at 1pm tomorrow (Wednesday 19th Dec) as I will be hosting a twitter chat along with Tots100 and Stork. We are really looking forward to hearing all...
The Great Blogger Bake Off
If there’s one programme I look forward to watching each week, it’s The Great British Bake Off. As you can probably tell, I love baking and there’s hardly a day goes by when I don’t stick the oven on and bake something (hence my ever expanding waistline!). So I was delighted to be asked to...
Forever Nigella – Easy almond cakes
I have been meaning to join in with the Forever Nigella Blogging Event, which is run by Sarah from Maison Cupcake ever since she started it. But, as with everything, I am rather disorganised and forget to blog the recipe or to actually make anything! Well, this month I was determined to join in, especially...
Mini almond puddings
These mini puddings are perfect to whip up last minute and cook in the microwave. We ate them with ice cream but they’d be fab with custard too. You can use any jam you like, but I always think cherries and almond are a winning combination. Shame we didn’t have any cherry jam in the...
Jubilee baking
I know, I know, there’s enough Jubilee related posts flying round at the moment, but I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon too! At the beginning of the month, Grace’s school held a Jubilee celebration. It was great fun, with children from all the classes taking part in dancing, singing, parades and much more. There...
Apple crumble and custard cake
A few weeks back we had the first meeting of the Eastleigh Clandestine Cake Club, which was really great fun. Our theme was fabulous fruit cakes and we had a great mix of flavours to try. After a few last minute cancellations, there were five of us and enough cake to feed about 50! Everyone...
Jammy coconut sponge squares
This is one of our favourite, quick and easy cake recipes. It is ideal as a lunch box treat and is great for taking on picnics in this lovely, sunny weather. In fact, I might bake some tomorrow morning and take Faith out for a little picnic lunch! Ingredients (makes 12 squares) 200g unsalted butter/Stork...
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