Posted in Christmas, Cupcakes, Other, Red, White, Winter, tagged Candy Cane Cupcakes, Christmas Cupcakes, cupcakes, mint cupcakes on December 17, 2023| Leave a Comment »
I always try to make the girls teachers and teaching assistants some cupcakes for Christmas, this year I bought some mini candy canes and decided to use those to decorate the cupcakes with. And of course they had to be candy cane flavoured cupcakes too. Click here to keep reading.
(more…)Posted in Cupcakes, Other, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, tagged cupcake, Flower Cupcakes, Mexican Baking, Tres Leches Cupcake on October 5, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Earlier on this year we decided to pick a country each and then cook traditional food from that country for a whole week. It took quite a lot of planning and research, but it was really good fun and definitely something we will continue to try every so often. I picked Mexico, so I was keen to try out some Mexican bakes, click here to keep reading.
(more…)Posted in Chocolate, Christmas, Other, Tray Bakes, tagged Christmas, christmas baking, Fudge, Peppermint Oreo Fudge on December 15, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I can’t believe there are only 10 days till Christmas, I’m not sure where the time has gone! Finally getting round to doing some Christmas baking and really enjoying trying out some new recipes. Making fudge is a really simple easy thing to do for homemade Christmas presents and it keeps for ages, so it’s perfect for giving to friends and family over the next couple of weeks. Click here to keep reading and try the recipe.
(more…)Posted in Bread, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Other, tagged GBBO Technical Challenge, Jam Doughnuts on November 16, 2020| Leave a Comment »
I’m getting a bit behind with blogging about the Bake Off technicals, but we have been giving them a go! I think I have only made doughnuts a couple of times as I don’t have a deep fat fryer, but these looked so good that it seemed worth the effort of filling a large saucepan with oil and using the thermometer to check the temperature, its definitely much harder to regulate it on the hob. We were all very excited to give these a go! Click here to see how we got on.
I didn’t have any strawberries, but had some of my parents homegrown raspberries in the freezer, so used some of these to make the jam instead. Emily and Chloe helped measure things out and helped with kneading the dough a bit too. Chloe loved poking her fingers in the soft dough! Pauls recipe can be found here.
I fried the doughnuts while the girls were having their tea so we could all have them for pudding. I couldn’t believe how big they got when they were put into the hot oil! They had just enough time to cool down so I could pipe in the filling and the jam. We very much enjoyed eating them! Probably one of the best technical challenges ever, they were so good!
Posted in Christmas, Cupcakes, Other, tagged christmas baking, Christmas Cupcakes, father christmas cupcakes, Santa Cupcakes on December 20, 2019| Leave a Comment »
This year on Christmas jumper Friday at Emily and Chloe’s nursery they had a cake sale to raise money for Save the Children. So I couldn’t resist offering to bake some Christmas themed cupcakes for them to sell to help raise some money. I needed a design that I could make in advance, so these Father Christmas cupcake toppers were perfect. Click here to see how I made them.
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 Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, Other, tagged caramel, GBBO Technical Challenge, Stroopwafels on September 25, 2017| Leave a Comment »
This week was caramel week on the Great British Bake Off and I was intrigued to see what the technical challenge would be. I didn’t watch it live but Becky text me after it finished and asked if I fancied buying an ice cream waffle cone maker – I was intrigued! Since neither of us own one, and Becky said she wouldn’t use it (it’s a bit hard to make them gluten free) I said I was happy to buy it but asked her to order it for me since I was away and worried it wouldn’t arrive in time. When I got back on Thursday it was waiting for me! Click here to see how I got on.
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, GBBO Challenges, Other on September 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Time for GBBO technical challenge number 2! I love Viennese whirls, the biscuits just melt in your mouth, so I was really pleased with this weeks challenge. I have made them before, but probably about 10 years ago, so it’s nice to give them a go again. Click here to find out how I got on.
Gloverly Cupcakes 