Chocolate Strawberry Mini Loaf Cakes

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 strawberry purée in the filling and frosting…delicious! I also had some leftover chocolate cake batter (yay), so decided to make use of some little […]

The Great British Bake Off Bake Along 2019: Week 1 – Cakes

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, where they created decorated fruit cakes. For the technical challenge they made three layer angel cake slices consisting […]

Banana and apple streusel loaf cake

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 more? An open bag of pecans with only a small amount in the bottom and an almost […]

June Favourites

It’s been a pretty busy month for me! With a couple of family Birthday’s, making the most of the glorious Summer weather and new food & drink products to try plus blogging for cake bag and coming up with some summery, no bake recipes! One of my favourite product launches from June has to be […]

Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Nutella & hazelnut twist bread

Last weeks episode of Great British Bake Off was bread week. Bread has been a bit hit and miss with me, I’ve tried numerous bread recipes with varying results over the years; but after seeing the chocolate breads in the signature bake round, I really wanted to make a loaf filled with Nutella & hazelnuts. […]

Tea addict

Anyone who knows me well knows that I love a nice cup of tea, be it a regular cup of PG tips with 1 sugar and quite a lot of milk or some kind of herbal tea when I fancy something a bit more refreshing. I’ve tried quite a lot of different tea’s over the […]

Three busy weeks & afternoon tea

It’s been an incredibly busy three weeks caking it up in my kitchen!! I baked the most enormous wedding cake I’ve made to date based around a theatre/Wicked theme, which consisted of four tiers of cake!! alongside the cake I made 88 cake pops for the same wedding And in between all those, I managed […]