Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Profiteroles

The semi-final of the Great British Bake Off was Patisserie Week! One of my favourites as it involves some of the most yummy bakes which included choux buns, Les Miserable slices & a Meringue sculpture! It was another warm week in the tent and we saw a few melting meringue sculptures! Steven’s chocolate balloon basket […]

Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Victorian Savoy Cake

This week was Forgotten Bakes week! The bakers’ first challenge was to make four Bedfordshire Clangers for the signature bake, which is a bit like a Cornish pasty, with one end sweet and one end savoury. The pastry is made with suet and is longer and more sausage like in shape than a pasty. The […]

Flamingo Baby Shower Cake

Pink vanilla sponge cake filled with strawberry buttercream and strawberry jam. Covered in baby blue fondant icing and decorated with handmade sugar grass around the bottom of the cake & pink Flamingo’s. Finished with a sugar message on top of the cake & the Mum to be’s name on the cake board.

Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Sfogliatelle

This week’s Great British Bake Off episode was the first ever Italian Week. As the pressure rose, so did the temperature as it was the hottest ever day in the bake off tent! Whilst everyone was trying to cool themselves using fridge doors, fans, sticking their heads in the freezer and fantasising about laying in […]

The Cake & Bake Show 2017

It’s been almost a week since I visited the Cake & Bake Show at The ExCel London! This was the first time I attended and it was AMAZING!! I was literally in cakey heaven! It provided the opportunity for me to see and meet some of my favourite bakers, cake decorators and of course, stock […]

A.C. Milan Cake

Chocolate cake filled with Nutella buttercream. Covered in white fondant icing and decorated with the A.C. Milan colours, badge and personalised birthday message on the cake board.

Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Decorative Chicken & Mushroom Pie

Pastry week in the Great British Bake Off tent was another tense one! For the signature bake; we saw the bakers challenged to make an assortment of decorative pies with a common theme so they all linked together in some way! Then they were challenged, in the technical round, to make Portuguese custard tarts which […]

Katherine Sabbath Greatest Hits Book Review

Last year, one of my favourite home bakers; Katherine Sabbath, launched a crowdfunding project on Kickstarter to create an interactive, entertaining and immersive 3-dimensional cookbook! As if I don’t have enough cookery books in my life…I simply couldn’t let this one pass me by! This is no ordinary baking book…oh no, this is a pop […]