Christmas

The perfect Hamper :

Look what arrived earlier this week! A beautiful gift wrapped hamper. I love it when a company takes the time to make a gift look extra special. I was really impressed. Now, I love a hamper and what’s more it’s usually because of my love of baskets and wicker more than loving the contents, but …

Book review Cakes Christmas

Top 10 baking books, the one’s you’ll want under your tree. Best gifting ideas

You can never have enough baking books can you? Every one has something different to taste and each one can inspire a whole meal, cake or just give you that excited feeling we get when we find something that just makes out mouth water. This list is a combination of the ones I have that …

Cakes Christmas Festival baking

Mince Pie Recipe

Well, it had to be done really didn’t it? I mean how long can you have baking blog before you make a batch of mincepies? Well for me nearly three years. I absolutely love mince pies but it wasn’t until Darcey asked for “those cakes with all the stuff inside”  (and it took quite a …

Cakes Review

Product Review: Tesco Red velvet cake

Every now and again I get asked to do a taste test on a food product and I have to say it doesn’t take much arm twisting, especially when it’s something as yummy as a Red Velvet cake. This one, from Tesco’s Finest range couldn’t have come at a better time. It was Beau’s birthday. …

Cakes Review

Baking brioche with the experts ‘Brioche Pasquier’ and how it all went terribly wrong!

There is a good reason I should stick to baking cakes and not go anywhere near bread. It just doesn’t work for me! I mean I love the texture of a bread dough as it’s soooo soft and malleable compared to what I am used to kneading – cold hard sugarpaste! But as a blogger …

Review

Product review: Ora kitchen towel (a.k.a Darcey’s new obsession)

Now, I’m not one of those bloggers who posts tons of gushy pictures of her kids all over the place, but when I went to take photos of this new Ora Kitchen towel for this post at the weekend Darcey wouldn’t get out of the way and lets face it- she was so cute. I …

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