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GBBO 2025 Technical Challenge No. 5 – White Chocolate Tart

Posted in Chocolate, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Pastry, Summer, tagged , , , , , , on October 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »

A couple of weeks ago we had family to stay for the weekend and once again the bake off technical made a great pudding! Click here to keep reading.

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GBBO 2025 Technical Challenge No. 1 – Raspberry and Almond Fondant Fancies

Posted in Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, pink, Summer, tagged , , , on September 9, 2025| Leave a Comment »

It’s that time of year again, the Great British Bake Off is back! We are all looking forward to seeing how this year’s contestants get on and trying some new recipes when we try all the technical challenges. So here’s the first one, click here to see how we got on making these fondant fancies.

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Ice Cream Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, pink, Summer, tagged , , on January 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »

I love being asked to make something a little bit different so I was very excited to be asked to make a cake in the design of the Birthday girls favourite ice cream dress! I spent some time looking at various ice cream cake designs and came up with a plan, click here to see more pics of this fun cake.

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GBBO 2023 Technical Challenge No. 6 – Lemon and Thyme Bundt

Posted in Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Iced Cakes, Other Cakes, Summer, tagged , , , on November 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I’m still playing catch up on making the technical challenges but found some time yesterday to give this one a go. Thyme is my absolute favourite herb, but I don’t think I have ever used it in a sweet recipe before, so I was keen to try this out. Click here to keep reading.

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GBBO 2023 Technical Challenge No. 3 – Devonshire Splits

Posted in Bread, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Summer, tagged , , , on October 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I don’t often share photos of the bread I bake, but most weeks I bake bread at least twice, sometimes 5 or 6 times, I absolutely love it! I tend to make milk bread loaves or rolls for breakfast/toast for the girls and sourdough for Rich and me. Then at the weekend we quite often have some kind of enriched dough for breakfast as a treat, any variety of cinnamon buns, babka’s, cruffins, croissants, brioche etc. And now it’s getting colder we’ll be having more soup for lunch which means I can try more savoury bread recipes too. I find it really enjoyable and rewarding. I couldn’t resist making these straight away and having them for breakfast this morning!

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Mexican Tres Leches Cupcakes

Posted in Cupcakes, Other, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, tagged , , , 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.

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Raspberry and Amaretti Baby Shower Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, pink, Summer, tagged , on November 13, 2022| Leave a Comment »

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Several years ago my friend Emma was expecting her second baby and had a baby shower, I decided to make a cake as a present for her. She requested raspberry and amaretto cake, I couldn’t wait to make it! Click here to see the recipe and keep reading.

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Peach and Pink Christening Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, pink, Spring, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, White, tagged , , on November 7, 2022| 1 Comment »

I was asked to create a cake for one of the Mum’s from Chloe’s old pre-school for her new baby daughters Christening. She had several ideas but was undecided on exactly what she wanted. So I designed a cake based on a few separate ideas that hopefully ticked all the boxes! Click here to see more pics of this gorgeous girly cake.

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Ice Cream Drip Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Iced Cakes, Summer, tagged , , , on November 1, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Rich absolutely loves ice cream, so for his Birthday last year I decided to have a go at a melted ice cream drip cake. Not my usual style of cake, but I bought a special scraper to make striped in buttercream and had never used it, so thought this was a good opportunity to give it a go. Click here to see how I got on.

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GBBO 2022 Technical Challenge No. 7 – Pistachio Praline Ice Cream

Posted in GBBO Challenges, Nuts, Puddings, Summer, tagged , , on October 31, 2022| 1 Comment »

Another week down, another technical challenge done! Phew! I really liked the idea of custard week, and we were very excited to see that the technical was ice cream – I make a lot of ice cream, so I was looking forward to this one. Click here to keep reading.

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