Having fun baking and decorating cakes
I often get asked how I get my cakes so smooth and I have to tell you that it’s a bit like DIY. It’s all in the preparation. If you don’t sand and fill in the holes on your walls before you paint then you are always going to see those lumps and bumps. Well …
I have made these cupcakes so many times and not once have I taken a photo of them so that I could share them with you guys. I’m not quite sure how that’s happened but this time- for my mum’s birthday, I was determined. The recipe is adapted from The Great British Book of Baking (never one …
This post contains affiliate links. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission Mango, Rum and Lime Syllabub Taken from Sunshine on a Plate by Shelina Permalloo (Ebury Press, £20 hardback) Images © Martin Poole available on AMAZON Serves 4 4 ginger biscuits, crushed 300ml double cream ½ vanilla pod, …
This post contains affiliate links. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission How beautiful is Shelina Permalloo? I mean she can cook that’s for sure but up close and personal she is GORGEOUS!! Even in whites,slaving over a hot stove. I was lucky enough to meet her when …
6 to 12″ in 60 seconds: Madeira cake ingredients I have to say that I have been bowled over by how many questions I have been asked about Madeira cake since I started this blog. I mean if you check out my first post on it there are over 200 comments! So I shouldn’t have …
Last week I made a two-tier wedding cake for a friend and I decided that it was about time I really mastered getting the right amounts of ingredients for different sized cake tins, rather than doubling and hoping for the best. I got the basic gist of how to work it out from Ruth Clemens …
