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Rhubarb, Caramel and Pistachio Cupcakes

Posted in Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, Nuts, Spring, Summer, tagged , , , , on May 7, 2018| 1 Comment »

It’s been a while since I made some cupcakes, especially ones that were an usual flavour and not just vanilla/chocolate with decorations on. So when I decided to go down to London for the afternoon to meet my best friend’s baby, I offered to make some cupcakes to take. I’ve already got a lot of rhubarb (I’ve made rhubarb and raspberry Frangipane tart, rhubarb crumble muffins, and I still have about 750g left!) so I decided to bake something with rhubarb. Click here to see how to make them.

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Chocolate Brownie Mince Pies

Posted in Chocolate, Christmas, Nuts, Pastry, Spices, tagged , , on December 24, 2017| 1 Comment »

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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.

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Turkey Christmas Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Christmas, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, Spices, tagged , , on December 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »

PC084580.JPGThis 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.

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Chocolate Speckled Peppermint Snowflake Cupcakes

Posted in Chocolate, Christmas, Cupcakes, gluten-free, gold, Other, Red, Winter, tagged , , , on December 2, 2017| 1 Comment »

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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.

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GBBO Technical Challenge No. 10 – Iced Ginger Biscuits

Posted in Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, royal icing, Spices, tagged , , on November 7, 2017| 1 Comment »

PB044320.JPGI can’t believe that this years bake off has now finished! I really enjoyed watching it and thought the new presenters were great and I was really pleased with the result, Sophie throughly deserved to win! I’m actually feeling quite relieved that all the technical challenges are now done and I can start to think about Christmas baking. So  here is my attempt at the iced ginger biscuits.

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GBBO Technical Challenge No. 5 – Molten Puddings

Posted in Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, Nuts, Puddings, tagged , , on October 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »

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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…

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GBBO Technical Challenge No. 4 – Stroopwafels

Posted in Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, Other, tagged , , 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.

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GBBO Technical Challenge No. 2 – Fortune Cookies

Posted in Biscuits, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Nuts, tagged , , on September 7, 2017| Leave a Comment »

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In a mad rush yesterday I thought I would try and squeeze in this weeks technical challenge before we went away on holiday and it meant that we had some baked goodies to eat while we’re away. Click here to see how I got on making the fortune cookies.

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GBBO Technical Challenge No. 1 – Chocolate Mini Rolls

Posted in Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, gluten-free, Other Cakes on September 3, 2017| 1 Comment »

P9023101.JPGWe 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.

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Ruby Wedding Anniversary Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Fruit/Veg, gold, Iced Cakes, Nuts, Red, Spices, Sugarpaste flowers, tagged , , , , on August 10, 2017| Leave a Comment »

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAIt 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.

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