Posted in GBBO Challenges, Iced Cakes, Other Cakes, tagged GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, School Cake, Sprinkles, Vanilla Sponge on October 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago we had friends to stay for the weekend, I was hoping that the technical challenge would be something suitable for dessert on Saturday night so I was very pleased when we watched episode 4 to see that it would be the perfect pudding!
(more…)Posted in Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, pink, Summer, tagged Fondant Fancies, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, Raspberry and Almond on September 9, 2025| Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of year again, the Great British Bake Off is back! We are all looking forward to seeing how this year’s contestants get on and trying some new recipes when we try all the technical challenges. So here’s the first one, click here to see how we got on making these fondant fancies.
(more…)Posted in autumn, GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, Spices, Tray Bakes, Winter on November 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »
We all absolutely love any kind of gingery cake in our family, so I was very happy to see this as the technical challenge. I have made lots of different types of ginger cake, but I can’t remember ever making Parkin, so I was keen to try it out. Click here to keep reading.
(more…)Posted in GBBO Challenges, Nuts, Other Cakes, pink, Yellow, tagged Battenberg, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge on October 1, 2024| 2 Comments »
Woo hoo, GBBO is back! I’m not sure if I was more excited or if the girls were. Over the summer they sneaked down one night after bedtime and saw Rich and I watching the Bake Off the Professionals, not surprisingly they loved it and started watching it, they then discovered there’s a junior GBBO too. They can’t get enough of it all! We are all looking forward to the new series and trying plenty of new recipes again. So here’s our first technical challenge.
(more…)Posted in Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Iced Cakes, Other Cakes, Summer, tagged GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, Lemon and Thyme Bundt cake, lemon drizzle cake on November 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »
I’m still playing catch up on making the technical challenges but found some time yesterday to give this one a go. Thyme is my absolute favourite herb, but I don’t think I have ever used it in a sweet recipe before, so I was keen to try this out. Click here to keep reading.
(more…)Posted in autumn, Fruit/Veg, Other Cakes, tagged Autumn Baking, Muffins, Plum and Coconut Muffins on September 26, 2022| Leave a Comment »
It’s suddenly started feeling very autumnal! My favourite time of year, I’m definitely looking forward to making more comfort food dinners and bakes. I made these with Chloe a couple of weeks ago, she absolutely loves plums, so these went down a treat for breakfast at the weekend. Click here to see the recipe.
(more…)Posted in Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, Red, tagged GBBO Technical Challenge, red velvet cake on September 20, 2022| 3 Comments »
Yey, GBBO is back! We all enjoyed watching the first episode and getting to know this years bakers. I hadn’t made a red velvet cake for ages, so I was really looking forward to making this and sharing it over the weekend with friends and family. The girls were also very enthusiastic to have a go at the technical challenges again. Click here to see how we got on.
(more…)Posted in Christmas, Fruit/Veg, Nuts, Other Cakes, tagged christmas baking, Christmas Muffins, Clementine and marzipan muffins on December 20, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Having warm muffins for breakfast is always a popular weekend treat in our house and these have a really lovely Christmas flavour. The squidgy warm marzipan pieces inside are very yummy. So why not give these a try, click here to see the recipe.
(more…)Posted in Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, tagged chocolate cake, GBBO Technical Challenge, Prinzregententorte on October 25, 2021| Leave a Comment »
We all love chocolate cake in our house and especially a cake with lots of buttercream and ganache! So we were very happy to try this recipe out this weekend. It also made the perfect pudding for our friends who came over for lunch on Sunday, both the grown ups and kids loved it. Click here to see how we got on.
(more…)Posted in Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, tagged GBBO Technical Challenge, malt loaf on September 27, 2021| Leave a Comment »
We are all super excited in our house that the GBBO is back on and we couldn’t wait for it to get started! Once again we have done plenty of baking over the last year but struggled to find the time to upload any of it, so thanks to the GBBO I’ll be making a bit more of an effort over the next few months. Emily and Chloe absolutely loved watching the first episode and were very keen to help out, click here to see how we got on.
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Gloverly Cupcakes 