Christmas Cake
Rich fruit cake covered in marzipan and red fondant icing. Decorated with embossed topper and Christmas wreath made from handmade sugar holly leaves, mistletoe, pine cones, berries and gold bow. Finished with green satin ribbon around the bottom of the cake and presented on an iced cake board.
Lemon & Elderflower Cupcakes
With the Royal Wedding, between Meghan & Harry, happening this weekend; I thought I’d whip up some summery Lemon & Elderflower cupcakes inspired by the flavours of their wedding cake, being baked by Claire Ptak from Violet Cakes Bakery! I did a bit of research into elderflower flavourings, extracts and cordials in baking. I couldn’t […]
Guitar cake
2-tier cake consisting of red velvet cake filled with vanilla buttercream & vanilla sponge cake filled with vanilla buttercream. All covered in white fondant icing & decorated with musical notes, age cake topper, handmade sugar electric guitar & birthday message on the cake board. Perfect for any musician!
January Favourites
Can you believe that January 2018 is over? This Month has actually flown past for me but I feel like I’m getting things in order for the start of this year so far! I’ve tried to really keep on top of my blogging game as well as getting my diary organised and replying to all […]
Teapot Cake
Vanilla sponge cake filled with vanilla buttercream and strawberry jam. Covered in light blue fondant icing and decorated with white polka dots, recipients age, lace detailing and birthday message on the cake board.
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 […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Jam Heart Sandwich Biscuits
Episode 2 of The Great British Bake Off was Biscuit Week! We saw the Bakers create an array of unusual flavours for the Signature Bake round where they made sandwich biscuits! For the Technical Challenge, Paul Hollywood set the difficult and fiddly task of creating Fortune Cookies! One of the instructions was “to fold then […]
Book Review: Candice Brown – Comfort
I was so excited to get my hands on the first book from the winner of The Great British Bake Off 2016; Candice Brown. It’s been far too long since GBBO finished and I really miss joining in with the bake along on Twitter (sad face). I know this book will inspire me to create […]
Easter Rocky Road
As Easter is approaching, I wanted to make some fun yet easy no bake treats using up some leftover ingredients from my pantry (as it needs a bit of clear out!) and what could be better than making some delicious rocky road but with an Easter twist! All I needed to pick up from the […]
Gingerbread Chai Spiced Cupcakes
I love trying out new cake recipes and when Bluebird Tea Co. recently sent me some Christmas tea’s to try out (review post here) I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to try some tea infused baking. I’ve made Bara Brith, in the past, which is a Welsh tea bread using regular brewed tea […]