SU2C GBBO Bake Along – Carrot cake loaf
Week 3 of the Celebrity SU2C Bake Off saw Tim Minchin, Ruth Davidson, Ella Eyre & Jamie Laing enter the Bake Off tent and were challenged to bake a loaf cake, Coffee Viennese Finger biscuits and a meringue showstopper! We saw mixed results once again with Tim’s Meringue offering melting away and falling apart yet […]
SU2C GBBO Twitter Bake Along – Cupcakes
GBBO is back! Five episodes of The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer is being aired weekly on Tuesday nights at 8pm on Channel 4 from Tuesday 6th March. Featuring four familiar faces each week that will battle to be crowned Star Baker whilst also raising funds for SU2C. I thought this […]
Pumpkin Spice Hot Chocolate
Pumpkin Spice Latte’s seem to have vanished quicker than they appeared at Starbucks! Same goes for Halloween (my Favourite Autumn Holiday!!) I want to embrace Christmas but I don’t think I’ve quite let go of Halloween yet or the vibrant orange pumpkins that go with it! As much as I love Christmas with all the […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Iced Ginger Biscuits
The Final episode of The Great British Bake Off 2017 aired this week and we saw the last 3 bakers; Kate, Sophie and Steven challenged to a variety of bakes including knotted bread & bread rolls for the Signature round. For the Technical Challenge, Prue set them the task of creating iced ginger biscuits that […]
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 – Millionaires Cookies
This post is much later than planned because I had such a busy week last week with cake orders, work and generally playing catch up!! But I finally developed a little GBBO Caramel Week recipe for these super easy Millionaires Cookies! I’ve made Millionaires Shortbread before and I have to say they are a bit […]
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 […]
Great British Bake Off Bake Along – Apple Crumble Cake
So week one of the new series of The Great British Bake Off has been and gone! Though a lot of people were skeptical about it moving to Channel 4 with new hosts and Judges (apart from Paul Hollywood!) I still decided to give it a chance…and I love it!! Episode one kicked off with […]
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 […]
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 […]