Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Iced Cakes, Nuts, Spices, Summer, tagged Bake off, fruit cake, Marzipan, sugar paste, Tennis Cake on September 21, 2015| 4 Comments »
I had my parents coming to visit this weekend as well as a few other friends popping over to visit, so this weeks Bake Off technical challenge was perfect, it meant that I had a yummy cake to offer everyone! I make quite a lot of fruit cakes, so I was keen to try this recipe to see how it compares. I have made my own marzipan a few times, but I have never made my own sugar paste, so this would be another thing to tick off the list. Click here to see how I got on.
Posted in autumn, Biscuits, Fruit/Veg, Nuts, Summer, tagged Biscuits, Blackerry, ganache, walnut, White chocolate on September 17, 2015| 1 Comment »
Last year was a bumper year for blackberries, I’m lucky enough to be surrounded by beautiful countryside in Kent and plenty of hedgerows filled with blackberries. I think I picked around 20kg last year and really enjoyed trying all sorts of recipes to use them up. I’ve been out a couple of times this year so it’s time to start making some goodies from all of my pickings. I found a recipe for walnut biscuits and adapted it to sandwich the biscuits together with a yummy blackberry and white chocolate ganache. Click here to try this lovely recipe.
Posted in Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, purple, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, Wedding Cakes, tagged freesias, lilac wedding cake, roses, summer wedding, wedding cake on September 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Just before Christmas last year, a family friend, Emma, asked if I would be able to make her wedding cake. Despite not living near where the wedding was going to be I said yes since it was near my parents so I thought it would be a good chance to go back to my parents for a few days. However, that didn’t happen – instead mum, dad and Becky came up to stay with me for a few days and then took the cake back. Becky even assembled the cake for me! Click here to keep reading.
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Green, Nuts, pink, Spring, Summer, tagged almond, chocolate, Fudge, pink and mint green, pink roses, pretty cupcakes, summer, Toblerone, toblerone cookies, toblerone cupcakes, toblerone fudge on July 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Last time I got back from holiday, I bought some Toblerone at the airport, I decided to copy Emma’s idea and use it to make some treats for the office. I chose a summery design, perfect for the warm weather we’ve been having recently. Click here to find out more about these pretty cupcakes.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, pink, Spices, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, tagged 100th Birthday Cake, chocolate, chocolate cupcakes, lemon, lemon cupcakes, pink, sugarpaste roses on July 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I’d never made a 100th Birthday cake before, so I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to make one. It was for our close friend’s Granny, who is called Rose, so the request for pink roses on the cake was perfect. The cake was a light fruit cake, a delicious recipe from an old cook book that our Mum has, great for this time of year! Click here for the recipe.
Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Nuts, royal icing, Summer, tagged apple, Biscuits, caterplillar, cookies, flooding icing, the very hungry caterpillar on June 27, 2015| 3 Comments »
When I was little, every night before bed I would ask to be read the same book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar. For some reason it was my favourite book – maybe because it was all about food! What did the Very Hungry Caterpillar eat today?
Posted in Fruit/Veg, Other Cakes, Summer, tagged Afternoon tea, British, clotted cream, strawberries on May 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
When I went to the supermarket earlier I spotted that they had British strawberries. I refuse to buy strawberries unless they’re British since the flavour of non-British ones just isn’t as good, so when I saw these I picked up a couple of punnets. I carried on doing the weekly shop and when I got to the cream section I saw that there was one pot of clotted cream left. So I decided I was going to make some scones for afternoon tea – it was meant to be! Would you like some afternoon tea?
Posted in purple, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, Wedding Cakes, tagged purple flowers, simple wedding cake, single tier cake, wedding cake on March 24, 2015| Leave a Comment »
This wedding cake was a last minute favour for somebody at work. Luckily though, I didn’t have to make the cake, just ice and decorate an 11″ square fruit. It was a single tier cake and I loved the simplicity of the design they chose – a white cake with purple and lilac flowers around the base.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, Nuts, Spices, Spring, Summer, tagged blossom, Delia Smith, Family Tree Cake, fruit cake, leaves, spring on March 19, 2015| 4 Comments »
Over the last few weeks it really has started to feel like spring has arrived. We now have lots of daffodils out in our garden and the sun has been shining! So I thought that this cake was perfect to blog about as it has a real spring feel to it. For our favourite fruit cake recipe and how to build your own family tree cake click here
Posted in autumn, Biscuits, Bread, Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Cupcakes, Easter, Figure Modelling, Halloween, Iced Cakes, Summer, Winter, tagged baking, cake decorating, Gloverly Cupcakes on January 8, 2015| 1 Comment »
If you follow us on Facebook and/or Twitter you’ll probably have seen some baking over the last 12 months that hasn’t made it onto the blog. Sometimes we spend so much time baking that it’s hard to find the time to blog about our creations, especially since we also work. So here is a collection of things we made in 2014 that you might not have seen yet.
Gloverly Cupcakes 