Posted in Chocolate, Christmas, Fruit/Veg, Orange, Tray Bakes, tagged chocolate, Chocolate Orange, chocolate orange crispy squares, Christmas, christmas baking on December 24, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I keep buying Terry’s Chocolate Oranges to make this recipe, but then we end up eating them and I have to buy more! Chocolate orange is one of my favourite flavours, so I was very excited to see this recipe in Decembers Sainsbury’s magazine, a great recipe to make with the girls too. Click here to try it out, it’s definitely worth it!
(more…)Posted in Chocolate, Christmas, Tray Bakes, Winter, tagged chocolate, chocolate brownies, christmas baking, pretzels on December 14, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Although this one isn’t strictly a Christmas recipe, everyone loves a chocolate brownie and these are really good, the salty pretzels add a yummy crunch and using these Christmas ones adds a festive touch. Click here to see the recipe.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, tagged chocolate, GBBO, jaffa cakes, orange, technical challenge on August 30, 2016| 1 Comment »
In case you missed it, the Great British Bake Off started again last week! Becky and I both really enjoyed trying the technical challenges last year so we’ve decided we’ll be doing them again this year. Last year we took it in turns to make them each week but we both decided we wanted to try the technical challenge from cake week – Jaffa Cakes!
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, Spring, tagged bugs, chocolate, cupcakes, orange, spring on April 13, 2016| 2 Comments »
It’s been a gorgeous week, full of spring sunshine so I couldn’t resist making some spring cupcakes as a present for Matt and Beckie who looked after Emily on Saturday while Rich and I were at a wedding. Click here to find out how to make these little bugs.
Posted in Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, Puddings, tagged chocolate, GBBO, Great British Bake Off, pudding, souffle on October 5, 2015| 2 Comments »
I have to admit, that like all contestants on the GBBO, I have never made a souffle! I love to eat them, but for some reason, I have never got round to making one, so this week I was actually a bit nervous – especially as you regularly see failed souffles on cookery programmes. Click here to see if I rose to the challenge.
Posted in autumn, Cupcakes, tagged Blackberry, chocolate, cupcakes on October 2, 2015| Leave a Comment »
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 Chocolate, Cupcakes, Green, Nuts, pink, Spring, Summer, tagged almond, chocolate, Fudge, pink and mint green, pink roses, pretty cupcakes, summer, Toblerone, toblerone cookies, toblerone cupcakes, toblerone fudge on July 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Last time I got back from holiday, I bought some Toblerone at the airport, I decided to copy Emma’s idea and use it to make some treats for the office. I chose a summery design, perfect for the warm weather we’ve been having recently. Click here to find out more about these pretty cupcakes.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, pink, Spices, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, tagged 100th Birthday Cake, chocolate, chocolate cupcakes, lemon, lemon cupcakes, pink, sugarpaste roses on July 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I’d never made a 100th Birthday cake before, so I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to make one. It was for our close friend’s Granny, who is called Rose, so the request for pink roses on the cake was perfect. The cake was a light fruit cake, a delicious recipe from an old cook book that our Mum has, great for this time of year! Click here for the recipe.
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, tagged cherry, chocolate, cupcakes, house warming, new home on June 4, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Last weekend I visited my sister-in-law Tams and her hubby Pete, they got married and bought a house together last year and this was our 1st visit, so I thought it would be a nice idea to make some ‘new home’ cupcakes. I chose a yummy looking chocolate cherry cupcake recipe to try out. Click here to see what I baked.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Easter, Iced Cakes, Nuts, Spices, tagged chick, chocolate, Easter, Marzipan, orange, Simnel Cake on April 1, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Last year for Easter Emma and I were back at our parents for a few days, so we thought it was about time we made a mess of Mum’s kitchen and did some baking! We wanted to do a slightly different take on a traditional Simnel cake, and came across this yummy chocolate orange Simnel cake recipe. The decoration was another idea taken from Pinterest. So if you haven’t made a cake yet, this one is lovely and the decoration is fairly simple too. Click here to keep reading…
Gloverly Cupcakes 