Posted in Christmas, Fruit/Veg, gluten-free, Nuts, Pastry, Winter, tagged christmas baking, Gluten free baking, mini clementine Bakewell tarts on December 24, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Last week was a busy week of baking and here is another delicious Christmassy recipe that we made. I haven’t done a lot of gluten free baking recently as Rich is no longer following a gluten free diet. But these sounded good, especially the pastry made with marzipan in it. Click here to see the recipe.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, gluten-free, tagged Coconut Macaroons, GBBO Technical Challenge on October 5, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Emily was very excited again this week to watch the bake off when she got back from school on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon and couldn’t wait for Saturday morning to make the technical challenge. Coconut macaroons are one of Rich’s favourites, so he was pretty happy too! Click here to see how we got on this week.
Luckily we had all the ingredients and even had some frozen mango which I cooked with some lime juice and zest to make a purée. The recipe for the macaroons can be found here. I used desiccated coconut instead of coconut flakes as that’s all I had, but they seemed to work ok. The mixture was far too hard to pipe for the mango curd filled ones, may be due to the desiccated coconut absorbing some of the moisture, but I shaped them into little nest shapes with a teaspoon and my finger instead.
We had a few problems with Chloe eating the chunks of chocolate before we managed to put them in the centre of the coconut mixture as captured in the photo and then picking at the coconut mixture too! Cheeky monkey!
The final macaroons were a decent size and we enjoyed trying them with a cup of tea on Saturday afternoon!
Posted in Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, gluten-free, Puddings on October 16, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I love pavlova so I was looking forward to making this recipe. Apart from the fact it’s vegan it looked like a normal pavlova! I have to admit to this one not being entirely vegan – I used normal white chocolate and a normal yoghurt (I figured they weren’t the “technical” part of the challenge, wouldn’t alter the overall taste/appearance and I didn’t have them!).
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Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, gluten-free, Iced Cakes, Spices, tagged Father's Day Cake, gluten-free, Pie Cake, Sticky Ginger Cake on June 17, 2018| Leave a Comment »
As it’s Father’s Day today, I couldn’t resist baking a special cake for my Dad as a present. He loves pies, so I thought I would have a go at making a cake and turning it into a pie! I used Pinterest to look for a few ideas and found a great cake made by Clinton’s Cakes with chips, peas and a red and white chequed table cloth. I wanted to make a cake that would keep well for a week and also be one of my Dad’s and hubby’s favourite flavours, so I chose a sticky ginger cake recipe that I have made a couple of times before. Click here to try a slice of the pie.
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.
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, Fruit/Veg, gluten-free, Iced Cakes, Nuts, tagged birds, Bunny, christening cake, flowers, lemon and almond, spring on April 6, 2017| 1 Comment »
Last weekend I got to make a christening cake for my niece, Emily. Becky sent me a photo of a cake she’d seen on Pinterest and asked if I could make something similar. Click here to keep reading.
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.
Gloverly Cupcakes 