Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, Spices, tagged christmas baking, Christmas Star Tree, gingerbread on December 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »
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.
Posted in Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, Spices, tagged GBBO Technical Challenge, Jumbles, Spiced Biscuits, Tudor Biscuits on October 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »
It’s not long till the bake off final, so only a few more weeks of technical challenges left. I’ve got a very busy few weeks, so it’s a good job that last weeks challenge was a quick and easy one! I thought they would be good for a post cross country race snack, so made a double batch to take to the first Met League cross country race of the season. Click here to see how I got on.
Posted in Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, Other on September 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Time for GBBO technical challenge number 2! I love Viennese whirls, the biscuits just melt in your mouth, so I was really pleased with this weeks challenge. I have made them before, but probably about 10 years ago, so it’s nice to give them a go again. Click here to find out how I got on.
Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, tagged chocolate, GBBO, jaffa cakes, orange, technical challenge on August 30, 2016| Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it, the Great British Bake Off started again last week! Becky and I both really enjoyed trying the technical challenges last year so we’ve decided we’ll be doing them again this year. Last year we took it in turns to make them each week but we both decided we wanted to try the technical challenge from cake week – Jaffa Cakes!
Posted in Biscuits, royal icing, tagged Biscuits, cookies, Denning's, DIY, hardware, tools on February 23, 2016| 2 Comments »
In 1957 our Grandpa, Alf Denning, opened a hardware shop on the Bristol Road in Northfield, Birmingham. It was called Denning’s Hardware and sold everything from a single nail, to wheelbarrows. As kids we often used to visit the shop when we went up to Birmingham to see our grandparents. I remember running round the shop with the sticker gun and using it to “price” ourselves! Click here to see what tools are for sale!
Posted in autumn, Biscuits, Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Cupcakes, Easter, Figure Modelling, Halloween, Iced Cakes, Macarons, Other, royal icing, Spring, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, Winter on January 28, 2016| Leave a 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…. Click here to find out what else we got up to last year.
Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, gluten-free, Red, royal icing, White on December 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Making a gingerbread house has become an annual event with my friend Anne. Each year we seem to spend more time talking and drinking tea and less time making and decorating our gingerbread! It’s great fun and hopefully we’ll be doing it for many more years to come. This year I decided to make a bird box and keep the colours simple with just white Royal icing with a few red highlights. Click here to keep reading.
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 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 Biscuits, Other, tagged caramel, cookies, hairy bikers on June 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The other week I realised it had been a while since I’d baked for the office so I decided I should bake something to take in. I wanted to make something quick and simple, which only needed store cupboard ingredients since I didn’t want to go out to the supermarket, so I decided to make some cookies. After a flick through some of my recipe books I came across these in the Hairy Bikers Big Book of Baking. Despite having to make the caramel to go in them, they’re straightforward (and quick) to make. Need a quick sugar fix?
