Having fun baking and decorating cakes- come along for the ride.
(From the archives of 2015) Little boys like pirate ships. Fact! The little man in my life (aka as Asher my gorgeous four year old nephew*⬇︎) is seriously into them. So when I asked him what he wanted for his cake this year I had a pretty good idea of what the answer would be …
I was really excited earlier this week to be able to make my very first ‘Free Cakes For Kids‘ birthday cake. I’ve been wanting to make one for ages but the requests have all come in when I was either shooting or away or had another cake on the go – and let’s face it one …
Sometimes cakes go wrong! Sometimes they go REALLY wrong and other times, if you’re lucky, you can get away with it. Like when it’s a cake for your 6 year old nephew! Asher is mad on Lego and wanted a Lego Policeman birthday cake this year. “No problem” I said. Anything for the other man in …
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 …
No, I’m not talking about The Great British Bake off (which everyone still seems to be talking about). I’m talking about those crazy bakers over at the Baking Mad website. They contacted me last month to see if I would like to link up with them and after a little persuasion (I was knee deep …
It was Tim’s birthday last Monday and his favourite cake is a Black Forrest Gateau. I have made this for him a few times but never properly. Really I just made a chocolate cake with cherries and cream. He was not satisfied! So I decided this year I was going to do it properly, but as usual I decided …
