Posted in Chocolate, Christmas, Fruit/Veg, gold, Orange, Puddings, Winter, tagged Chocolate Log, Chocolate Orange, christmas baking on December 13, 2018| Leave a Comment »
A couple of years ago we hosted Christmas with my sister-in-law, hubby and our nephew, I wanted to make a chocolate log but really wanted to make something slightly different. One of my favourite flavours is chocolate orange which feels like quite a Christmassy flavour, so I adapted a chocolate log recipe and this was the result! Click here to find out more.
Posted in Black, Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Figure Modelling, Green, Iced Cakes, White, tagged Caramel Ombre Cake, Children's Birthday Cake, Panda Cake on November 22, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Just over a month ago it was Emily’s 3rd Birthday. Being a typical 3 year old she was changing her mind every day about what kind of party and cake she wanted, slightly tricky when trying to plan things! Her favourite cuddly toy is her panda and so when I suggested that she had a panda themed party and cake, she seemed very excited and the idea stuck, phew! She takes after both her Aunties with her love of pandas. She asked for the cake to have a Mummy panda, a Daddy panda and and Emily panda on as well as some bamboo, so I did a bit of research and came up with a design. Click here to take a look at the panda cake.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, Nuts, Other Cakes, Puddings, tagged GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, patisserie, Torta Setteveli on October 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I was really pleased when I saw what the technical challenge was last week – it’s been ages since I’ve made something like that and I couldn’t wait to try it! The only downside was that it’s pretty big (it’s huge!) and I was on my own for the weekend. Luckily I had a cross-country race and my team mates were more than happy to help me eat it up!
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Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, tagged GBBO Technical Challenge, Wagon Wheels on August 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Finally this years GBBO is underway! It was a great start to the series and I can’t wait for next weeks episode already. This year I am getting a bit of help with my baking from Emily who really enjoyed watching it for the first time on Wednesday morning and couldn’t wait to try and make them. So click here to see how we got on.
Posted in Chocolate, Christmas, Nuts, Pastry, Spices, tagged chocolate brownies, christmas baking, Mince pies on December 24, 2017| 1 Comment »
We haven’t managed as much Christmas baking this year, but I did make a few Christmas goodies this week for Emily’s nursery. I had a lot of homemade mincemeat to use and decided to make a mince pie alternative. Click here to try this recipe.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Christmas, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, Spices, tagged Christmas cake, fruit cake, Turkey Cake on December 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »
This year I decided to try something very different for my Christmas cake, rather than doing something traditional I thought I would do something silly! I’d seen a photo of a turkey cake and thought I would try something similar. I also wanted to try a different flavoured Christmas cake but still wanted it to be a fruit cake so it would keep. Click here to try out this yummy 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.
Posted in Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, Nuts, Puddings, tagged chocolate pudding, GBBO Technical Challenge, Molten Pudding on October 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »
I was really looking forward to making this weeks technical challenge – I love peanut butter! We invited our friends Matt and Beckie over for dinner on Saturday night and I planned to do the technical challenge for pudding, no pressure then…
Posted in Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, gluten-free, Other Cakes on September 3, 2017| 1 Comment »
We are both very excited that the Great British Bake Off has started again! And despite the move to Channel 4 we were pleased to see that the format is exactly the same and although we miss Mary Berry, Mel and Sue, the new presenters did a great job. So it’s now time to start trying all the technical bakes again! It has got off to a good start, chocolate mini rolls looked like a great challenge and something I haven’t made before. Click here to see how I got on.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Fruit/Veg, gold, Iced Cakes, Nuts, Red, Spices, Sugarpaste flowers, tagged chocolate fruit cake, Painted cake, Red and Gold, Ruby Wedding Anniversary Cake, Sugarpaste poppy on August 10, 2017| Leave a Comment »
It was our parents 40th wedding anniversary on the 30th July so not surprisingly Em and I decided to make them a cake as a present! Celebrating 40 years of marriage is a wonderful occasion, so it had to be a very special cake for two very special people. Click here to see some more pics and the yummy chocolate fruit cake recipe we used.
Gloverly Cupcakes 