I'm a little late to the game but better late than never. It was World Nutella day on Feb 5th so I baked some Nutella brownies but have not gotten round to (...)
Summer is fast approaching which means picnic season! I made this quiche for Easter as we had a lovely picnic on the one day that the weather was nice. I had (...)
The theme for this month's Forever Nigella is 'Afternoon Tea'. I knew immediately that I wanted to use my Williams-Sonoma mini tea cake pan that I bought from (...)
When my co-host for AlphaBakes Caroline announced that this month's letter is 'K', the first thing I thought about was kiwis hence my kiwi and strawberry (...)
I've been meaning to make this cake for a long time now and finally got round to it. The polenta gave it a nice fine texture and the orange made it light and (...)
As mentioned in my previous post, I also made a plain and simple victoria sponge for the Macmillan World's Biggest Coffee Morning. I decided that you can't go (...)
My second attempt at making chiffon cake which turned out even better than the first :) I made an orange one this time using my mum's recipe and it tasted much (...)
This is the first time I've baked with matcha powder or green tea. (I made these cookies before I made the green tea chocolate bundt cake). I followed the (...)
Happy New Year! I'm back from a long break and it's quite difficult to get back into the swing of things. I've not actually felt like baking which does happen (...)
I made this lovely carrot cake as a birthday cake for a colleague at work. I used the recipe from the Hummingbird Bakery cookbook and it turned out really (...)
Today was my last day at my current job (sob sob). It's really sad to be leaving as I've had such a fantastic year. The team have been absolutely brilliant and (...)
This is yet another birthday cake for my mum. She had a birthday lunch with her friends so I agreed to make the cake for them. She had a store bought red (...)
These cookies are inspired by a pack of fruit and nut mix with cinnamon dusted milk chocolate almonds that I found in the shops. I decided to add in more (...)
I planned a little surprise birthday dinner for a friend recently. Luckily it went well and the birthday girl was indeed surprised and very happy! I asked the (...)
This was a special request from my brother. The first time I tried to make this cake, it failed horribly. Fortunately I've now worked out the correct (...)
I love how you can connect with others on social media particularly on twitter. A recent follower on my twitter account is David from Old Fat Guy (...)
As you can tell, I've been on a bit of a baking spree lately! I decided to make another entry for this month's AlphaBakes. I looked through my books for 'E' (...)
This month's AlphaBakes challenge is "N" which is actually quite a difficult letter. So far, I've only thought of nutella and nuts. I then remembered (...)
Welcome to another Secret Recipe Club Group D reveal day.Each month we are assigned a blog in secret and we then choose 1 recipe to make and blog about on the (...)
The lovely people at Baking Mad were looking for bloggers to try some of their healthy recipes in January. I jumped at the chance after having a great time (...)
This is a choc-a-holic's dream cake. It's a 2 layer chocolate sour cream cake covered with chocolate ganache with a layer of chocolate ganache in the middle. (...)
I've had a few cake orders from work this month mainly for children's birthdays. The first is this Minecraft Cake for Josh who turned 8 yesterday so Happy (...)
