Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, gluten-free, Iced Cakes, Nuts, tagged birthday cake, Drip Cake, peanut butter cake, sugar paste peony on March 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »
It was my Birthday last week and I can’t think of a better way to spend the day than baking myself a cake! I don’t often get to bake exactly what I want, the cakes I usually do are for customers, so it’s really enjoyable to find a new recipe and experiment with some new designs. I am a peanut butter addict, so when I saw this recipe in Olive magazine, I had to make it! Click here for the scrummy recipe.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Figure Modelling, Fruit/Veg, gluten-free, Iced Cakes, tagged 1st Birthday Cake, Chocolate beetroot Cake, owl cake, Woodland Cake on February 9, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Owl Woodland Cake
Last year was a busy year and I didn’t get round to uploading photos of most of the cakes I baked. October and November were especially busy – with Emily’s 1st Birthday too. We had a small family party on the weekend of her Birthday and I made a baby friendly cake to eat – chocolate and beetroot. I wanted to do something woodland or owl themed and something where all the decorations could be made in advance, so this design was perfect. I had seen an idea on Pinterest and added some extras and changed a few things to make it fit the theme of the party. Click here to see more details of this cake and the yummy recipe.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Fruit/Veg, gluten-free, Iced Cakes, Nuts, Spices, tagged christmas baking, Christmas cake, gluten-free, owl cake on December 20, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Christmas, Fruit/Veg, gluten-free, Nuts, Spices, Tray Bakes, Winter, tagged christmas baking, gluten-free, Marzipan, Sour Cherry Stollen Bars on December 16, 2016| 1 Comment »
It’s always fun to try new recipes of traditional things that people have reinvented. So when I was looking through my Christmas Olive magazine and came across a gluten free baking section I was very excited to see a recipe for Stollen bars. My husband’s family love Stollen – they spent several years living in Germany where Stollen originated. This recipe is amazing and well worth baking this Christmas. Click here to try this recipe.
Posted in Christmas, Fruit/Veg, Nuts, Pastry, Spices, Winter, tagged christmas baking, Frangipane, Mince pies, Mincemeat, Nigella on December 13, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I’ve been making the same mince pies for years so decided to try something different this year. I had a look through my recipe books and found Nigella’s frangipane mince pies which sounded really good. I also made my own mincemeat too and used a different recipe which wasn’t as good as Delia’s so I’ll be going back to her recipe next year! Click here to try these mince pies.
Posted in Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, tagged GBBO Technical Challenge, Savarin on October 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I can’t believe it’s nearly the end of this years bake off! One more technical challenge to go. I ended up buying the tin for this weeks challenge – you can never have too many cake tins and I am sure I will use it again as it’s a very pretty shape. It’s been a bit of a crazy week as it was Emily’s 1st Birthday last Thursdays, so I had a very important Birthday cake to make which took priority, so I am only getting round to doing this now. Click here to see the results.
Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, tagged chocolate, GBBO, jaffa cakes, orange, technical challenge on August 30, 2016| 1 Comment »
In case you missed it, the Great British Bake Off started again last week! Becky and I both really enjoyed trying the technical challenges last year so we’ve decided we’ll be doing them again this year. Last year we took it in turns to make them each week but we both decided we wanted to try the technical challenge from cake week – Jaffa Cakes!
Posted in Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, Summer, tagged 2016, cupcakes, olympic cupcakes, olympic rings, olympics, Rio, summer olympics on August 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »
For the last two weeks I’ve been lacking sleep. Partly because of the Olympics (why do most of the finals have to be in the middle of the night?!) and partly due to being at a hen do last weekend for one of my friends, Sian. These Olympic themed cupcakes were for Sian’s hen do. We had a mini Olympics during the day on Saturday so I decided that some themed cupcakes would help re-fuel the athletes! Click here to keep reading.
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, Spring, tagged bugs, chocolate, cupcakes, orange, spring on April 13, 2016| 2 Comments »
It’s been a gorgeous week, full of spring sunshine so I couldn’t resist making some spring cupcakes as a present for Matt and Beckie who looked after Emily on Saturday while Rich and I were at a wedding. Click here to find out how to make these little bugs.
Posted in Black, Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, gluten-free, Green, Iced Cakes, Other, pink, Spices, White on March 22, 2016| 2 Comments »
It was my Birthday last week, so it was time to bake myself a cake and try out some new recipes. I really don’t mind making my own Birthday cake and it gave me the opportunity to try something new. Click here to see which recipe I chose.
Gloverly Cupcakes 