Posted in Chocolate, Christmas, Fruit/Veg, Puddings, Red, White, Winter, tagged Buche de Noel, christmas baking, Christmas log, orange and cranberry, White chocolate on December 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I always make a Yule log at Christmas although at the moment I haven’t found a favourite recipe, so I am keen to keep trying some new ones. Last year I chose a white chocolate, orange and cranberry flavoured one and adapted a couple of recipes to make it, click here to see the full recipe.
(more…)Posted in Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, Red, silver, Spices, White, tagged christmas baking, Christmas cake, Gnome Christmas Cake on December 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »
I just can’t resist making more than one Christmas cake each year, so once again this one will be a Christmas present for our best friends. I chose to make some cute little gnomes and add some other pops of colour and some snowflakes. Click here to see some more pics.
(more…)Posted in Christmas, Cupcakes, Other, Red, White, Winter, tagged Candy Cane Cupcakes, Christmas Cupcakes, cupcakes, mint cupcakes on December 17, 2023| Leave a Comment »
I always try to make the girls teachers and teaching assistants some cupcakes for Christmas, this year I bought some mini candy canes and decided to use those to decorate the cupcakes with. And of course they had to be candy cane flavoured cupcakes too. Click here to keep reading.
(more…)Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, Red, White, tagged birthday cake, Chocolate Fudge Cake, Welsh Rugby Ball Cake on November 10, 2023| Leave a Comment »
It was Emily’s 8th Birthday a couple of weeks ago and this year she decided she wanted a Welsh rugby ball cake. She also wanted the Bake Off chocolate fudge cake as it was so yummy, so I managed to reshape the left over huge cake from week 1 of the Bake Off and turn it into rugby ball. Perfect! Click here to see some more photos.
(more…)Posted in Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Figure Modelling, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, Red, Spices, White, tagged Christmas, christmas baking, Christmas cake, Silly Santa hats on December 19, 2022| 1 Comment »
It’s definitely now one of our Christmas traditions to give our best friends Matt and Beckie a Christmas cake as a Christmas present. I love being able to decorate an extra Christmas cake and choose a silly design that will make Ellie and Freddie smile! Click here to see which recipe I used this year.
(more…)Posted in Blue, Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, Red, tagged airplane cake, Children's Birthday Cake, christening cake on November 18, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I keep finding photos of cakes that I made ages ago but never uploaded, so this is quite an old one from over 6 years ago! It was my nephew’s Christening cake. Click here to keep reading.
(more…)Posted in Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, Red, tagged GBBO Technical Challenge, red velvet cake on September 20, 2022| 3 Comments »
Yey, GBBO is back! We all enjoyed watching the first episode and getting to know this years bakers. I hadn’t made a red velvet cake for ages, so I was really looking forward to making this and sharing it over the weekend with friends and family. The girls were also very enthusiastic to have a go at the technical challenges again. Click here to see how we got on.
(more…)Posted in Blue, Bread, GBBO Challenges, Green, Orange, Red, Yellow, tagged Bagels, GBBO Technical Challenge, Rainbow Bagels on October 12, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Emily was super excited about making rainbow bagels this week, she loves rainbows and her favourite breakfast is bagels! We eat and bake quite a lot of bagels in our house, so this challenge was perfect for us. Click here to see how we got on.
We planned our bagel making around Sunday lunch time, so they would be fresh out of the oven in time for lunch. Paul’s recipe can be found here. The recipe was straight forward and the girls enjoyed kneading the dough, Chloe kept trying to eat it again, can’t imagine it tasted too good! I managed to knead in the food colouring in while Emily and Chloe kneaded some of the other bits of dough, so luckily avoided getting their hands coloured too.
Once it had proved I rolled it out while the girls watched and then Emily did a little bit of helping to roll and twist them. They both stood and watched eagerly while I boiled them before they went in the oven.
The end result was super and we really enjoyed them with some cream cheese on for our lunch, delicious, warm and chewy, they definitely put a smile on our faces!
Posted in Black, Cupcakes, gluten-free, Other, Red, Summer, White, tagged Espresso Cupcakes, Ladybird Cupcakes on June 12, 2018| 1 Comment »
We’ve had a really busy couple of months with various wedding cakes and visiting friends and family, so I made the most of a quiet 20 mins earlier while Emily was watching Stickman to write about the cupcakes I made for everyone when we visited friends this weekend. The wedding cake I made a couple of weeks ago had 2 tiers of coffee cake in and I tried a Hummingbird recipe that sounded like it would give an amazing coffee hit. The cake was so good that I decided to make some coffee cupcakes for this weekend too. Click here to take a look at the Hummingbird Bakery’s espresso cupcake recipe.
Posted in Chocolate, Christmas, Cupcakes, gluten-free, gold, Other, Red, Winter, tagged Chocolate mint, Christmas Cupcakes, Red and Gold, snowflake cupcakes on December 2, 2017| 1 Comment »
Hopefully this will be the first of many Christmas baking blogs this year and as usual there are so many scrummy looking recipes to try out it’s going to be hard to narrow it down. As it’s the last Met League before Christmas I couldn’t resist making some red and gold Christmas cupcakes for the Serpie runners. We haven’t been to any xc races yet this season as we now live quite far away and Rich injured his knee recently which has meant he can’t run at the moment. But after 4 years of not being able to run because of a back injury, I am now able to run 6km so I am very excited to be able to take part! Click here to try out our first Christmas recipe.
Gloverly Cupcakes 