Posted in Biscuits, Fruit/Veg, tagged Dried Fruit, Rock Cakes, Traditional Bake on February 28, 2019| 1 Comment »
A couple of weeks ago at nursery Emily baked rock cakes, we used to bake them lots when I was little too and they are an old favourite! At the weekend Emily and my Mum also did some baking and made more rock cakes, so thought it was about time I added them on here. Click
Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, Green, pink, purple, Spices, tagged christmas baking, gingerbread house, sugarplum on December 20, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I didn’t get round to uploading any photos of last years ginger bread house but anyone that’s been to our house in the last year will have seen it! It’s been on the sideboard as a permanent feature all year! There’s no chance we’ll eat it now, but it makes a great Christmas decoration and having had baby Chloe just three weeks ago there certainly won’t be time to make one this year! Click here to see more photos of my magical house.
Posted in Biscuits, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Puddings, Summer, tagged Blancmange, GBBO Technical Challenge, Langues de chat on September 23, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I think I must be one of the only people who actually liked blancmange when I was little! So this recipe definitely appealed and sounded very yummy. I had a bit of help from Emily with the biscuits, but it was a tricky one for a toddler to do! Click here to see how we got on.
Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, tagged GBBO Technical Challenge, Wagon Wheels on August 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Finally this years GBBO is underway! It was a great start to the series and I can’t wait for next weeks episode already. This year I am getting a bit of help with my baking from Emily who really enjoyed watching it for the first time on Wednesday morning and couldn’t wait to try and make them. So click here to see how we got on.
Posted in Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, royal icing, Spices, tagged GBBO Technical Challenge, Ginger Biscuits, royal icing on November 7, 2017| Leave a Comment »
I 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.
Posted in Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, Other, tagged caramel, GBBO Technical Challenge, Stroopwafels on September 25, 2017| Leave a Comment »
This week was caramel week on the Great British Bake Off and I was intrigued to see what the technical challenge would be. I didn’t watch it live but Becky text me after it finished and asked if I fancied buying an ice cream waffle cone maker – I was intrigued! Since neither of us own one, and Becky said she wouldn’t use it (it’s a bit hard to make them gluten free) I said I was happy to buy it but asked her to order it for me since I was away and worried it wouldn’t arrive in time. When I got back on Thursday it was waiting for me! Click here to see how I got on.
Posted in Biscuits, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Nuts, tagged Fortune Cookies, Great British Bake Off, technical challenges on September 7, 2017| Leave a Comment »
In a mad rush yesterday I thought I would try and squeeze in this weeks technical challenge before we went away on holiday and it meant that we had some baked goodies to eat while we’re away. Click here to see how I got on making the fortune cookies.
Posted in Biscuits, Blue, Grey, Other, royal icing, tagged Flower biscuits, Piping, Vanilla Biscuits on March 7, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The best way to use up left over cake decorations is to do some more baking! I have a pot filled with left over flowers of various shapes, sizes and colours, so I picked out these ones to create some elegant biscuits! I usually use a biscuit recipe from the Biscuiteers Book of Iced Biscuits as they are always tasty and have the perfect texture. Click here to try their vanilla biscuit recipe.
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.
Gloverly Cupcakes 