Recipes & Tutorials

This month,I’ve been making the most of seasonal berries, particularly strawberries & raspberries! I also had a cake creation to make for a Birthday last week which was decorated using fresh [...]

Week three of The Great British Bake Off was bread week. We saw the bakers make a tear a share loaf with a flavour and filling for the signature bake; there were some delicious sounding flavours [...]

Week two of the Great British Bake off was Biscuit week! I love biscuits, so was really looking forward to seeing what the bakers were going to rustle up for the three challenges! For the [...]

The Great British Bake Off is back! So naturally, I’m taking part in the GBBO Bake Along again this year :) Week One was cake week, so we saw the bakers faced with a fruity signature challenge, [...]

This week I was craving Ben’s Cookies…but with no branch local to me, I had to resort to experimenting in the kitchen and bake some myself! I first discovered Ben’s Cookies when [...]

Chocolate brownies have to be one of my favourite treats to bake as they are so versatile! You can bake them plain or add chocolate chips, nuts or cherries. They are perfect served warm with a [...]

Rock cakes are among the first cakes I baked. A very traditional bake that is considered rather old fashioned yet so easy to make! I recently found out on Twitter that quite a few people didn’t [...]

Pancake Day has to be one of my favourite seasonal food days! Though it usually turns into pancake week as I love to try out different pancake toppings! I usually opt for some yummy Nutella, [...]

Do you ever find that you purchase fruit and various baking ingredients and end up with the odd apple lurking in the fridge and a banana that gets so over ripe that you simply cannot eat it any [...]

Do you love anyone enough to give them the last slice of this Rolo brownie? I’ve been wanting to share more recipes, using a basic base such as brownies, cookies and tray bakes, adding [...]

I love a good blondie and wanted to make some with the addition of Jammy Dodgers! With their little jam filled heart design, they’d be perfect for Valentines Day! Then I had a [...]

There are so many flavours that you can combine with chocolate! A few of my favourites are mint chocolate, which are great in ice-cream, after eights (yum!) & mint aero (bubbly yum!), [...]

With pretty much one month to go until Valentines Day, I wanted to make something and share a little tutorial. So this weekend, I had a little play with a mini-ice cream mould I purchased a while [...]

Whenever I make my cake creations, I tend to be left with off cuts after levelling my cakes before I fill, buttercream and ice them! These are great to enjoy as a lil left over bakers treat [...]

Dessert week saw the bakers return to the tent to create an array of delights ranging from a roulade for the Signature round where they had to create the perfect swirl when it was rolled. For the [...]