Posted in Christmas, Cupcakes, Spices, tagged Christmas, christmas baking, cupcakes, gingerbread, gingerbread cupcake on December 23, 2022| 1 Comment »
I feel like I might be overdoing the gingerbread baking a bit this year! But it’s so Christmassy I can’t resist! I always make a box of 6 cupcakes for the girls teachers and teaching assistants for Christmas, it gives me a good excuse to try another recipe or a new decoration. Click here to find out more.
(more…)Posted in Chocolate, Christmas, Spices, Tray Bakes, tagged Christmas, christmas baking, gingerbread, Gingerbread marshmallow slice on December 21, 2022| 1 Comment »
My Christmas baking this year is very gingerbread themed, so here’s another gingerbread recipe I found to try out. Rich and the girls love marshmallows, so this sounded like a winning combination! Click here to find out more.
(more…)Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, Spices, Winter, tagged christmas baking, gingerbread, mince meat stuffed gingerbread on December 22, 2021| Leave a Comment »
I saw this recipe in the Waitrose magazine last Christmas but didn’t get round to making it. It’s a recipe from John Whaite (who won GBBO in 2012) and it’s a perfect Christmas flavour combination of gingerbread and mincemeat, yummy! Click here to see the recipe.
(more…)Posted in GBBO Challenges, Other Cakes, Spices, tagged dates, GBBO, Ginger Cake, gingerbread, malt loaf, signature bake, sticky toffee on October 2, 2018| Leave a Comment »
So this is a slight change to the normal ‘Technical Challenge’ which we do each week, and that’s because the last technical challenge was a bit odd. I don’t mind trying something new but I didn’t want to have to buy random spices and moulds which I probably wouldn’t use again, just for the sake of a challenge. The other option was improvise, but given it was spice week, not having the right spices seemed to defeat the purpose. I also didn’t really agree with the challenge – I couldn’t work out what techniques it was testing. So… click here to keep reading
Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, Spices, tagged christmas baking, Christmas Star Tree, gingerbread on December 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I bought a set of star cookie cutters several years ago to make a star cookie tree and never got round to using them, so I thought instead of making a gingerbread house this year I would make a tree! Anne and I are still holding up our Christmas gingerbread baking day and it didn’t disappoint this year, can’t think of a more fun way to spent a day than baking with a friend! Click here to see my star tree creation.
Posted in Christmas, Other Cakes, Spices, Winter, tagged Bundt, Christmas, delicious magazine, gingerbread, gold on December 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Last weekend Becky came up to stay for a long Christmassy/girly weekend! Of course, the weekend involved plenty of baking. I saw the recipe for this in delicious. magazine last year and really wanted to try it but never got round to it so when I saw it again this year I thought it would make a good pudding for Friday night as well as being suitable to have with tea/coffee. Click here to keep reading
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Iced Cakes, Winter, tagged Christmas cake, fairy lights, Fruitcake, gingerbread, Narnia on December 11, 2014| 2 Comments »
Last year I decided to make a slightly crazy Christmas cake, with lights and everything… and I’m not joking! I had seen a picture of this amazing cake and just couldn’t resist giving it a go. The style of the cake is what I imagine Mr Tumnus’s house looks like from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, so I thought I would to add a lampost too! Click here to find out how to light up your Christmas cake.
Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, royal icing, Spices, tagged Christmas, gingerbread, gingerbread men, icing, lebkuchen, snowflakes on December 15, 2012| 4 Comments »
I’ve got so many things to blog about and not enough time! I made these a couple of weeks ago with Becky when she came to stay. I’m having a baking weekend (again) this weekend and I made these (…again!) so I guess it makes sense to blog about these next. I’m baking Christmas presents for people this year and one of the things I’ve decided to make are mini gingerbread men and snowflakes – hopefully I’ll find time this weekend/next week to blog about the other things I’m making. If you want to make some gingerbread biscuits too click here.
Gloverly Cupcakes 