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.
Continue Reading »Posted in autumn, GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, Spices, Tray Bakes, Winter | Leave a Comment »
When they first made filo pastry on the bake off as a technical, I had a go and I remembered saying next time I would buy the pastry as it was so time consuming! But it wouldn’t be a proper technical challenge if I bought it and I had two very keen helpers this week, so we spent Sunday making a lot of mess attempting this one, click here to keep reading.
Continue Reading »Posted in Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Pastry | Tagged filo pastry, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, spanakopita | Leave a Comment »
Caramel week is always one of our favourite weeks on the GBBO and this year was no exception. Rich was very pleased that the technical bake was Tarte Tatin, one of his favourites and something I have never made. Click here to see how I got on.
Continue Reading »Posted in autumn, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Other, Pastry | Tagged caramel, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, pastry, pear Tarte Tatin | Leave a Comment »
Bread week this year was amazing, so many interesting bakes and some brilliant bread making skills! I wanted to try all the challenges but just haven’t had the time, so decided to stick to doing the technical, which was perfect to eat over the weekend for lunch with some soup! Click here to see how I got on.
Continue Reading »Posted in Bread, GBBO Challenges | Tagged bread, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, Plaited bread | Leave a Comment »
There was so much drama in biscuit week in the bake off! We also had our own drama at home with a sick bug from school that was doing the rounds and put a stop to all our plans, so these were made in a bit of a rush on Sunday afternoon. Click here to keep reading.
Continue Reading »Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, GBBO Challenges | Tagged Biscuits, chocolate, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, peppermint biscuits | Leave a Comment »
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.
Continue Reading »Posted in GBBO Challenges, Nuts, Other Cakes, pink, Yellow | Tagged Battenberg, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge | 2 Comments »
It was Mum’s 70th Birthday just before Christmas and she rarely has a Birthday cake as her Birthday is so close to Christmas. But as it was her 70th we had to do something special, so along with all the other Birthday surprises I made her an illusion cake based on a casserole pot and veg as cooking is still one of her favourite things to do. Click here to keep reading.
Continue Reading »Posted in autumn, Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, Nuts, Spices, Winter | Tagged fruit cake, Illusion Cake, Stock Pot Cake | 2 Comments »
I love being asked to make something a little bit different so I was very excited to be asked to make a cake in the design of the Birthday girls favourite ice cream dress! I spent some time looking at various ice cream cake designs and came up with a plan, click here to see more pics of this fun cake.
Continue Reading »Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, pink, Summer | Tagged Children's Birthday Cake, ice cream cake, kids birthday cake | Leave a 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.
Continue Reading »Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Christmas, Puddings, Spices | Tagged Chocolate Lebkuchen, Christmas, christmas baking, Ice Cream Sandwiches | 1 Comment »
I just can’t resist making more than one Christmas cake each year, so once again this one will be a Christmas present for our best friends. I chose to make some cute little gnomes and add some other pops of colour and some snowflakes. Click here to see some more pics.
Continue Reading »Posted in Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, Red, silver, Spices, White | Tagged christmas baking, Christmas cake, Gnome Christmas Cake | Leave a Comment »
Gloverly Cupcakes 