It must be time for another blackberry recipe! I haven’t baked any cupcakes for a while, so thought I would make some seasonal ones. I made some chocolate cherry ones a few months ago and liked the idea of combining dark chocolate with the fruit. I also love the colour from the blackberries so added a blackberry puree to the buttercream, to give a pretty pinky purple colour. I also used the left over blackberry and white chocolate ganache to put in the middle of the cupcakes – delicious! Click here to have a go at the recipe.
Posted in autumn, Cupcakes | Tagged Blackberry, chocolate, cupcakes | Leave a Comment »
September 30, 2015 by Emma
I was really excited about patisserie week – I was hoping that the technical challenge would be something pretty and I wasn’t disappointed! Although these involved making various types of icings, which looked complicated and quite different to what I normally make, they turned out to be easier than I expected. Click here to keep reading.
Posted in GBBO Challenges, Nuts, Other, Other Cakes | Tagged GBBO, Mokatines, patisserie, technical challenge, the Great British Bake Off | 2 Comments »
September 24, 2015 by Emma
After a lot of indecisiveness (usually the case if I haven’t already got a plan about what I’m making!) I decided to make some rubber duck cupcakes for the cake trolley the other week. I had plenty of sugar paste left from cakes I’ve made over the last few weeks so some simple decorations to use it up seemed like a good option. Click here to see the rubber ducks!
Posted in Cupcakes | Tagged cupcakes, rubber ducks | 4 Comments »
September 21, 2015 by Becky
I had my parents coming to visit this weekend as well as a few other friends popping over to visit, so this weeks Bake Off technical challenge was perfect, it meant that I had a yummy cake to offer everyone! I make quite a lot of fruit cakes, so I was keen to try this recipe to see how it compares. I have made my own marzipan a few times, but I have never made my own sugar paste, so this would be another thing to tick off the list. Click here to see how I got on.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Iced Cakes, Nuts, Spices, Summer | Tagged Bake off, fruit cake, Marzipan, sugar paste, Tennis Cake | 4 Comments »
September 17, 2015 by Becky
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 autumn, Biscuits, Fruit/Veg, Nuts, Summer | Tagged Biscuits, Blackerry, ganache, walnut, White chocolate | 1 Comment »
September 14, 2015 by Emma
I was intrigued about this weeks technical challenge. It didn’t seem to bear any resemblance to anything I’d made in the past. It certainly wasn’t like any pastry recipes I’d tried. I can see why the bakers got confused – it felt like it belonged in bread week rather than pastry week! What to know what a flaouna is?
Posted in Bread, GBBO Challenges | Tagged Flaounas, GBBO, Great British Bake Off, technical challenge | 2 Comments »
September 9, 2015 by Becky
I bake quite a lot of gluten-free cakes for my running club as there are several people that follow a gluten-free diet, so I was interested to see what this week challenge would be. When I saw that it was bread, all I could think about were the horrible gluten-free flat breads I had tried to make a few years ago, which were like cardboard! I didn’t think I would ever be making gluten-free bread again… Click here to see how I got on this time round.
Posted in Bread, GBBO Challenges, gluten-free | Tagged Bake off, bread, gluten-free, pitta bread | 1 Comment »
September 7, 2015 by Emma
Just before Christmas last year, a family friend, Emma, asked if I would be able to make her wedding cake. Despite not living near where the wedding was going to be I said yes since it was near my parents so I thought it would be a good chance to go back to my parents for a few days. However, that didn’t happen – instead mum, dad and Becky came up to stay with me for a few days and then took the cake back. Becky even assembled the cake for me! Click here to keep reading.
Posted in Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, purple, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, Wedding Cakes | Tagged freesias, lilac wedding cake, roses, summer wedding, wedding cake | Leave a Comment »
September 1, 2015 by Emma
At the weekend I decided to give last weeks technical challenge a go. It looked impressive but I couldn’t help thinking that it looked like a pavlova, just constructed in a slightly different way. However, I put my doubts to one side and bought a ridiculous number of eggs so that I could spend an afternoon making a mess in the kitchen. Click here to keep reading.
Posted in GBBO Challenges, gluten-free, Puddings | Tagged GBBO, Spanish Windtorte, technical challenge | Leave a Comment »
On the Great British Bake Off last week, it was bread week. The technical challenge was to make 4 baguettes. I do bake my own bread, but not as often as I would like to and I usually end up making a white, wholemeal or granary loaf for the weekend and to put in the freezer. I bought Paul Hollywoods book ‘How to Bake’ a few months ago and I have made a few things from it, with varying success! So my bread making experience is fairly limited. But I love a challenge and really enjoy trying out new things, so click here to find out how I got on.
Posted in Bread, GBBO Challenges | Tagged Baguette, Bake off, bread | Leave a Comment »
« Newer Posts - Older Posts »
Gloverly Cupcakes 