It’s strawberry season! That only means one thing, summer! Glastonbury weekend {pah, not for me this year *wallows in self-pity*}, Wimbledon is dominating the tv channels {am I the only person who finds tennis a terrific bore?} and the supermarkets are stacked to...
Here’s a perfect cake to slot into your repertoire, or print it out, fold it and slip it between the pages of one of your favourite recipe books, or is that just something I do? Why, you may ask? Well, apart from the fact that...
A cake dressed up for my favourite day of the year, May 1st. Underneath the ribbons is a raspberry sponge, filled with raspberry jam and covered in white chocolate buttercream. The cake is decorated with a ‘Maypole’, complete with colourful ribbons, representing the traditional village...
I just had to revisit my boston cream pie cupcakes at some point. When there is custard involved things are never too far from my mind. I had a thought, maybe it was a custardy dream, that I could convert it to a swiss roll,...
It’s been a little while since I did a baking post, my apologies! I have done a lot of baking but all the recipes are already on here so I had nothing to blog. I’ve made more macarons and a couple of batches of red...
This week’s baking seems to all be brought on by the need to use up fruit! This time it was bananas, they were going cheap at the supermarket and we’d bought a bundle. I also had an open packet of broken walnuts to use up....
Imagine the surprise on the children’s faces as you cut into this cake! Chocolate sponge, covered with white chocolate cream cheese frosting with a hidden centre of candy treasure. It’s enough to put a smile on anyone’s face! This particular cake wasn’t made for a...
These delightful cupcakes were completely inspired by my travels through the middle east a couple of years ago. Eating turkish delight in Istanbul while musing over the domes and minarets, glinting in the late winter sun it a delicious memory. It is one incredible city...
I thought I’d follow one of my most lusted after posts, {gluten-free} Black Forest Brownies, with a sister recipe! A Blondie, made with crunchy peanut butter and white chocolate for an incredibly moist and fudgy bar. This baby is also deliciously gluten-free as it uses ground...
Here is something a bit decadent for a cold January day! It was entirely inspired from a visit to a farmers market in Knaresborough at the weekend. We were visiting friends and took a Sunday morning stroll, through the snow, into town to hunt for...
Here is a delicious bake for the new year! Everyone’s favourite, Banoffee Pie, as a cupcake. Take some toffee banana sponge, cover it with toffee creme patissiere, a slice of fresh banana, sprinkle over some cookie crumbs then top it off with a crown of...
A final post of 2012, and wishing you all a very happy new year! I’m ending this first year of blogging with three of my favourite things in cupcake form, the three c’s: cake, custard and chocolate. Normally a cake, Boston Cream Pie is two...
I’m in Switzerland! We’ve returned to the Lauterbrunnen Valley, near Interlaken for two weeks of festive, snow filled fun after loving it so much last year. And boy have we had snow! We arrived by train, well 4 of them, from London late on Wednesday...
Bonfire Night here in the UK is one of my favourite nights of the year. We wrap up warm, huddle round a bonfire to watch an effigy of Guy Falkes, our most famed terrorist failure, burn on top of it, then turn our peepers to...
Check this baby out for a wonderful autumnal pud! This is one of my favourite desserts, light sponge topped with soft apple in a buttery cinnamon syrup, served warm with lashings of cream or custard. It’s easy to make too. There are three young apple...
Effie was my nan: She was a good baker and these were her greatest bake. Well, my brother and I certainly thought so when we were children, we hoovered them up given half the chance! They were always refered to as bakewells, it wasn’t...
