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GBBO Spice Week – Signature Bake: Date & Ginger Malt Loaf

Posted in GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, Spices, tagged , , , , , , on October 2, 2018| Leave a Comment »

So this is a slight change to the normal ‘Technical Challenge’ which we do each week, and that’s because the last technical challenge was a bit odd. I don’t mind trying something new but I didn’t want to have to buy random spices and moulds which I probably wouldn’t use again, just for the sake of a challenge. The other option was improvise, but given it was spice week, not having the right spices seemed to defeat the purpose. I also didn’t really agree with the challenge – I couldn’t work out what techniques it was testing. So… click here to keep reading

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Pie Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, gluten-free, Iced Cakes, Spices, tagged , , , on June 17, 2018| Leave a Comment »

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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.

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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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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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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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Gingerbread Star Tree

Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, Spices, tagged , , on December 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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I bought a set of star cookie cutters several years ago to make a star cookie tree and never got round to using them, so I thought instead of making a gingerbread house this year I would make a tree! Anne and I are still holding up our Christmas gingerbread baking day and it didn’t disappoint this year, can’t think of a more fun way to spent a day than baking with a friend! Click  here to see my star tree creation.

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Fig, Apricot and Pistachio Christmas Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Fruit/Veg, gluten-free, Iced Cakes, Nuts, Spices, tagged , , , on December 20, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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I never got round to writing about my Christmas cake last year and as I tried a new recipe I thought it was worth adding to our Christmas blogs this year. The recipe was from the Sainsbury’s magazine and was a really lovely moist squishy Christmas cake. Click

here to see the recipe for this yummy cake.

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Sour Cherry Stollen Bars

Posted in Christmas, Fruit/Veg, gluten-free, Nuts, Spices, Tray Bakes, Winter, tagged , , , on December 16, 2016| 1 Comment »

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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.

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Frangipane Mince Pies

Posted in Christmas, Fruit/Veg, Nuts, Pastry, Spices, Winter, tagged , , , , on December 13, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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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.

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