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Easter Bunny Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Easter, Other, tagged , , , on March 31, 2018| Leave a Comment »

For the last few years I’ve made an Easter cake to raffle off for charity at work. I offered to do the same again this year for the charity of the month – Hearing Dogs. Being at work all week meant I only had a couple of evenings to make and decorate it so I picked something fairly simple. The cake was a chocolate caramel ombré cake and I crumbled up the off cuts of the chocolate cake to make the soil. I covered the whole cake in green sugarpaste, cut out a circle from the middle and then filled it with the ‘soil’. The bunny was made from a ball of white icing flattened slightly and then put in the soil. I then stuck on a small ball of icing for his tail and made 2 feet which I finished off with a few small circles of pale pink icing. The carrots were made from orange icing and I marked some lines on them with the back of a knife. I added cake wire to the middle of the green carrot tops to keep them standing upright. Annoyingly they were slightly too tall to fit in the box so I had to break the tops off to make them a bit shorter! Hope you all enjoy the long Easter weekend!

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Aeroplane Cupcakes

Posted in Cupcakes, Figure Modelling, tagged , , on March 5, 2018| Leave a Comment »

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It’s been way too long since we last blogged about anything so I thought as I haven’t done much baking this year yet, I would find something fun that I made last year. I had totally forgotten about these cool aeroplane cupcakes that I made as a present for Emily’s key worker at nursery last year as she was leaving to go travelling to Australia. 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| Leave a 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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Drunk Santa Christmas Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Figure Modelling, tagged , , , on December 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »

For the last few years I’ve made a Christmas cake for the office to be raffled off for charity. Having been on holiday for 3 weeks at the end of November/start of December I haven’t had much time to do much Christmas baking, and still haven’t decided how I’m going to decorate my own cake this year but I offered to make a cake for the office so yesterday I spent a couple of hours making this! Click here to keep reading

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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| Leave a 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| Leave a 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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