Having fun baking and decorating cakes
I wanted to make some cupcakes to take to a friends party last Saturday night and after a quick search (in that little box up on the top on the right hand side of the page) I discovered that I have hardly posted any cupcake recipes here on CakesBakesAndCookies.com in the last three years! How …
I’m very lucky with my next door neighbours. They’re really amazing at taking in the countless parcels I get for work- which always seem to turn up the moment I leave the house after waiting in all day! – and they have given me some of their home grown rhubarb for years now. I love …
I seem to have had a lot of enquires recently for a recipe for a 14″ Madeira cake. I don’t actually have a tin this big (the one above is a 12″) but one of my readers measured the volume of her tin and I calculated the ingredients she would need. She said it as …
Okay, so it’s no secret that I’m a Peggy Porschen fan, but if you don’t live in the world of cakes- or within a 5 miles radius of me! Then you may not know who Peggy is. To keep this from being the longest post in the world let’s just say that she’s a cake …
How are you all doing this morning? I’ve had a great start to the Easter Weekend so far. I spent 4 hours stripping paint from my bannisters yesterday whilst listening to the soundtrack from Frozen belting out from the girls bedrooms! I secretly quite liked it and it kept them entertained over and over and over!!! …
A few weeks ago, along with a bunch of mummy and foodie bloggers I was invited to see a preview of the new film ‘Labour Day’. I have to admit I was a bit miffed as to how I was going to link this film to my baking blog. Then about 30 minutes into the film …
