Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Christmas, Puddings, Spices, tagged Chocolate Lebkuchen, Christmas, christmas baking, Ice Cream Sandwiches on December 30, 2023| 1 Comment »
I love combining recipes or using them in a slightly different way, so when I saw the cover recipe on November’s Sainsbury’s Magazine for chocolate lebkuchen I thought they would be perfect to turn into ice cream sandwiches and decorate them as Christmas puddings! Click here to see the recipe.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, Spices, tagged Christmas, christmas baking, Christmas Biscuits, ginger bread on December 21, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Last year Em gave me a beautiful wooden pinecone biscuits mould for Christmas and I thought I would try it out and make some lovely pinecone biscuits as gifts for some friends. Click here to see how I got on!
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, tagged Biscuits, custard creams, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge on October 8, 2023| 1 Comment »
I was very tempted this week to have a go at an illusion biscuit bake, but realised it would take far too long, so settled for doing the technical again and you can’t beat a good custard cream! I baked with the girls again on Saturday but due to how long these took to chill and cut out I had to finish them off after bed time, but it meant we had a big box to take with us to the rugby festival on Sunday and share with the team. Click here to see how we got on.
(more…)Posted in autumn, Biscuits, Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, tagged bonfire night, GBBO Technical Challenge, Halloween baking, s’mores on October 23, 2022| 1 Comment »
Halloween week might have been a week early on the GBBO, but we definitely didn’t mind and couldn’t wait to make the s’mores! Rich and the girls love marshmallows and I haven’t made any for ages, so perfect excuse! Keep reading to see how amazing these are.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, tagged Biscuits, garibaldi biscuits, GBBO Technical Challenge on September 23, 2022| 1 Comment »
This week was biscuit week on the GBBO and we really enjoyed the episode. I loved the idea of making a biscuit mask and might try it one day with the girls, I think they would really enjoy decorating their own masks. I have never made garibaldi biscuit so we were looking forward to trying them out. Click here to see how we got on.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, Spices, Winter, tagged christmas baking, gingerbread, mince meat stuffed gingerbread on December 22, 2021| Leave a Comment »
I saw this recipe in the Waitrose magazine last Christmas but didn’t get round to making it. It’s a recipe from John Whaite (who won GBBO in 2012) and it’s a perfect Christmas flavour combination of gingerbread and mincemeat, yummy! Click here to see the recipe.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Christmas, Fruit/Veg, Nuts, Winter, tagged biscotti, Chocolate Orange, Christmas, christmas baking on December 11, 2021| Leave a Comment »
I’m a bit late getting going with the Christmas recipes this year, I’m not really sure where the time has gone! But I have been busy baking, so I have plenty of Christmas recipes to share over the next couple of weeks. Here’s the first recipe, one of my favourite flavours – chocolate orange. Click here to see how to make this chocolate orange and almond biscotti.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, tagged chocolate caramel biscuits, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, homemade twix on November 9, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Oh yes, it’s caramel week! Our favourite flavour! We all love caramel here, whether it’s salted carmel ice cream, cake or in a biscuit bar, it’s a winner. So we weren’t going to pass on this weeks challenge. Click here to see how I got on.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, tagged Biscuits, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, Jammy Biscuits on October 4, 2021| Leave a Comment »
After the success of the malt loaf last week the girls were keen to have a go at making the jammy biscuits after school on Friday. Emily loved watching the GBBO again and is already planning a gingerbread biscuit construction for Christmas! Click here to take a look at our attempt at making jammy biscuits.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Christmas, Pastry, Spices, Tray Bakes, Winter, tagged chocolate tiffin, christmas baking, rocky road, Rudolph Rocky road on December 16, 2020| Leave a Comment »
We have been super busy baking at home this week! So this is the first of my Christmas baking blogs, hopefully plenty more to come. I tried to pick recipes this year that the girls could help with to keep us busy at home. These were really good fun to make and look very cool too. Click here for the recipe.
The recipe was from November’s Sainsbury’s magazine – mince pie tiffin bites. We all love rocky road in our house, so this festive version will definitely be a favourite. Here is the recipe:
Mince Pie Tiffin Bites
100g skin on almonds
85g glacé cherries, quatered
55g dried cranberries
2 tbsp brandy or orange juice
125g butter
100g golden syrup
20g cocoa
Zest of 1 orange
150g dark chocolate
275g mince pies (roughly 5)
For the topping:
200g milk chocolate
3 tbsp double cream
16 chocolate covered pretzles
8 red glacier cherries
Small amount of white and black fondant for the eyes
Gloverly Cupcakes 