Posted in autumn, Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, tagged apple, Apple crumble, autumn, crumble, cupcakes on November 27, 2015| Leave a Comment »
One of the most comforting puddings has to be a crumble. Now the nights are drawing in and there’s a chill in the air it is time to do some comfort baking and these definitely hit the spot! Click here to turn this classic pudding into some scrummy cupcakes.
Posted in autumn, Fruit/Veg, Nuts, Other Cakes, tagged almond, loaf cakes, Plum on November 11, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Our parents have a bumper crop of plums this year, so I decidedout some new plum recipes. I think this one was from an old Waitrose magazine, it sounded really good and I had all the ingredients in the cupboard, so thought I would give it a go. Click here to try this delicious plum recipe.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Iced Cakes, Nuts, Spices, Summer, tagged Bake off, fruit cake, Marzipan, sugar paste, Tennis Cake on September 21, 2015| 4 Comments »
I had my parents coming to visit this weekend as well as a few other friends popping over to visit, so this weeks Bake Off technical challenge was perfect, it meant that I had a yummy cake to offer everyone! I make quite a lot of fruit cakes, so I was keen to try this recipe to see how it compares. I have made my own marzipan a few times, but I have never made my own sugar paste, so this would be another thing to tick off the list. Click here to see how I got on.
Posted in autumn, Biscuits, Fruit/Veg, Nuts, Summer, tagged Biscuits, Blackerry, ganache, walnut, White chocolate on September 17, 2015| 1 Comment »
Last year was a bumper year for blackberries, I’m lucky enough to be surrounded by beautiful countryside in Kent and plenty of hedgerows filled with blackberries. I think I picked around 20kg last year and really enjoyed trying all sorts of recipes to use them up. I’ve been out a couple of times this year so it’s time to start making some goodies from all of my pickings. I found a recipe for walnut biscuits and adapted it to sandwich the biscuits together with a yummy blackberry and white chocolate ganache. Click here to try this lovely recipe.
Posted in Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, purple, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, Wedding Cakes, tagged freesias, lilac wedding cake, roses, summer wedding, wedding cake on September 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Just before Christmas last year, a family friend, Emma, asked if I would be able to make her wedding cake. Despite not living near where the wedding was going to be I said yes since it was near my parents so I thought it would be a good chance to go back to my parents for a few days. However, that didn’t happen – instead mum, dad and Becky came up to stay with me for a few days and then took the cake back. Becky even assembled the cake for me! Click here to keep reading.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, pink, Spices, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, tagged 100th Birthday Cake, chocolate, chocolate cupcakes, lemon, lemon cupcakes, pink, sugarpaste roses on July 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I’d never made a 100th Birthday cake before, so I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to make one. It was for our close friend’s Granny, who is called Rose, so the request for pink roses on the cake was perfect. The cake was a light fruit cake, a delicious recipe from an old cook book that our Mum has, great for this time of year! Click here for the recipe.
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, tagged cherry, chocolate, cupcakes, house warming, new home on June 4, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Last weekend I visited my sister-in-law Tams and her hubby Pete, they got married and bought a house together last year and this was our 1st visit, so I thought it would be a nice idea to make some ‘new home’ cupcakes. I chose a yummy looking chocolate cherry cupcake recipe to try out. Click here to see what I baked.
Posted in Fruit/Veg, Other Cakes, Summer, tagged Afternoon tea, British, clotted cream, strawberries on May 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
When I went to the supermarket earlier I spotted that they had British strawberries. I refuse to buy strawberries unless they’re British since the flavour of non-British ones just isn’t as good, so when I saw these I picked up a couple of punnets. I carried on doing the weekly shop and when I got to the cream section I saw that there was one pot of clotted cream left. So I decided I was going to make some scones for afternoon tea – it was meant to be! Would you like some afternoon tea?
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, Nuts, Spices, Spring, Summer, tagged blossom, Delia Smith, Family Tree Cake, fruit cake, leaves, spring on March 19, 2015| 4 Comments »
Over the last few weeks it really has started to feel like spring has arrived. We now have lots of daffodils out in our garden and the sun has been shining! So I thought that this cake was perfect to blog about as it has a real spring feel to it. For our favourite fruit cake recipe and how to build your own family tree cake click here
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Figure Modelling, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, tagged Afternoon tea, Alice in Wonderland, Mad Hatter, orange, Tea Party, White chocolate on February 19, 2015| 1 Comment »
Last weekend it was Emma’s 30th Birthday party. She had decided on an Alice in Wonderland theme for her party. It was fancy dress too and we had an brilliant afternoon and evening playing silly games and eating plenty of scrummy food. But no Birthday would be complete without a Birthday cake! As Emma made me an amazing surprise cake for my 30th, I had a lot to live up to, so after several months of planning I found a design that was perfect that I could adapt for her cake. Click here to visit Underland to see the cake…
Gloverly Cupcakes 