Posted in Biscuits, Grey, pink, royal icing, tagged Baby Shower Biscuits, Elephant Biscuits on February 6, 2020| Leave a Comment »
I love making and baking things to give to people as gifts and biscuits are perfect as they have a longer shelf life than cakes and they tend to travel better too. I bought this elephant cookie cutter a few years ago and it really does make the cutest shaped little elephants, whether it’s for a cake or some biscuits. Click here to see how these little elephants are made.
Posted in Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, royal icing, Spices, tagged GBBO Technical Challenge, Ginger Biscuits, royal icing on November 7, 2017| Leave a Comment »
I can’t believe that this years bake off has now finished! I really enjoyed watching it and thought the new presenters were great and I was really pleased with the result, Sophie throughly deserved to win! I’m actually feeling quite relieved that all the technical challenges are now done and I can start to think about Christmas baking. So here is my attempt at the iced ginger biscuits.
Posted in Biscuits, Blue, Grey, Other, royal icing, tagged Flower biscuits, Piping, Vanilla Biscuits on March 7, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The best way to use up left over cake decorations is to do some more baking! I have a pot filled with left over flowers of various shapes, sizes and colours, so I picked out these ones to create some elegant biscuits! I usually use a biscuit recipe from the Biscuiteers Book of Iced Biscuits as they are always tasty and have the perfect texture. Click here to try their vanilla biscuit recipe.
Posted in Biscuits, royal icing, tagged Biscuits, cookies, Denning's, DIY, hardware, tools on February 23, 2016| 2 Comments »
In 1957 our Grandpa, Alf Denning, opened a hardware shop on the Bristol Road in Northfield, Birmingham. It was called Denning’s Hardware and sold everything from a single nail, to wheelbarrows. As kids we often used to visit the shop when we went up to Birmingham to see our grandparents. I remember running round the shop with the sticker gun and using it to “price” ourselves! Click here to see what tools are for sale!
Posted in autumn, Biscuits, Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Cupcakes, Easter, Figure Modelling, Halloween, Iced Cakes, Macarons, Other, royal icing, Spring, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, Winter on January 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »
If you follow us on Facebook and/or Twitter you’ll probably have seen some baking over the last 12 months that hasn’t made it onto the blog. Sometimes we spend so much time baking that it’s hard to find the time to blog about our creations, especially since we also work…. Click here to find out what else we got up to last year.
Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, gluten-free, Red, royal icing, White on December 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Making a gingerbread house has become an annual event with my friend Anne. Each year we seem to spend more time talking and drinking tea and less time making and decorating our gingerbread! It’s great fun and hopefully we’ll be doing it for many more years to come. This year I decided to make a bird box and keep the colours simple with just white Royal icing with a few red highlights. Click here to keep reading.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Grey, royal icing, Winter, tagged birds, Christmas, fruit cake, royal icing on December 14, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Last year I didn’t get round to writing about the Christmas cake I made, mostly due to being over ambitious with what I wanted to do before the big day – there were so many thing I wanted to bake, Christmas decorations I wanted to make and prepare for 12 people coming to ours for Christmas. I’d never hosted Christmas before either! So I thought I would write a short blog about it this year in between feeding, nappy changing, playing and watching Emily sleep – it’s amazing how much time you can spend just watching your little one! Click here to see how to decorate the cake I made last year.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, royal icing, Sugarpaste flowers, tagged Classic figure modelling, Mosaic, peony, Quilling, royal icing, Royal icing collar, stencilling, sugar paste on July 1, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Last week Em and I went on our second 6 day Cake Decorating Course at Squires Kitchen International, this time it was an extended techniques course, building on what we had already learnt on the previous course. We had another amazing week doing what we both love. Click here to keep reading and see some of the beautiful things we created.
Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Nuts, royal icing, Summer, tagged apple, Biscuits, caterplillar, cookies, flooding icing, the very hungry caterpillar on June 27, 2015| 3 Comments »
When I was little, every night before bed I would ask to be read the same book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar. For some reason it was my favourite book – maybe because it was all about food! What did the Very Hungry Caterpillar eat today?
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, Other, royal icing, Sugarpaste flowers, tagged baking, Brush Embroidery, calla lilies, carnations, fruit cake, Marzipan, Pastillage, roses, royal icing, stencilling, sugar paste on May 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago Em and I went on a 6 day Professional Intensive Cake Decorating Course at Squires Kitchen International. We had an amazing week refining our existing skills as well as learning some new techniques. Click here to see some of our creations.
