Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, tagged Biscuits, chocolate, chocolate caramel hobnobs, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, Hobnobs on September 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »
We were really looking forward to trying this weeks bake off technical challenge. I love having a go at recreating shop bought biscuits, I’ve made bourbons, custard creams, digestives, wagon wheels and jammy dodgers before but I’d never tried making hobnobs. Click here to see how I got on.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, tagged Biscuits, chocolate, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, peppermint biscuits on October 8, 2024| 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.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, tagged Biscuits, custard creams, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge on October 8, 2023| 1 Comment »
I was very tempted this week to have a go at an illusion biscuit bake, but realised it would take far too long, so settled for doing the technical again and you can’t beat a good custard cream! I baked with the girls again on Saturday but due to how long these took to chill and cut out I had to finish them off after bed time, but it meant we had a big box to take with us to the rugby festival on Sunday and share with the team. Click here to see how we got on.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, tagged Biscuits, garibaldi biscuits, GBBO Technical Challenge on September 23, 2022| 1 Comment »
This week was biscuit week on the GBBO and we really enjoyed the episode. I loved the idea of making a biscuit mask and might try it one day with the girls, I think they would really enjoy decorating their own masks. I have never made garibaldi biscuit so we were looking forward to trying them out. Click here to see how we got on.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, tagged Biscuits, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, Jammy Biscuits on October 4, 2021| Leave a Comment »
After the success of the malt loaf last week the girls were keen to have a go at making the jammy biscuits after school on Friday. Emily loved watching the GBBO again and is already planning a gingerbread biscuit construction for Christmas! Click here to take a look at our attempt at making jammy biscuits.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, GBBO Challenges, tagged biscuit week, Biscuits, Fig rolls, GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, Great British Bake Off, technical challenge on September 6, 2019| Leave a Comment »
This week on the Bake Off it was biscuit week. Some of the showstoppers were amazing – I have chickens so I was very tempted to try to create a biscuit Chicken! But I’ve stuck with the technical challenge this week which was fig rolls, something I haven’t had for years.
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, 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 Biscuits, cupcakes, jammy dodger, party cakes on June 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Time for another installment of the “party biscuit” cupcakes: Jammy Dodger cupcakes. These were just a mix of recipes I’ve made previously – my usual vanilla cupcakes, filled with jam, topped with vanilla buttercream, and my recipe for jammy bodger biscuits made into mini biscuits. Click here to keep reading.
Gloverly Cupcakes 