The end of October brings Halloween and this is the perfect excuse to twist things in the kitchen. It doesn’t need to be complicated. The simple sausage wrapped in thin strips of pastry becomes a mummified sausage; chocolate biscuits blended to a powder make convincing […]
Christmas with a three year old is very different to a Christmas with a baby and we’re only eight days into December. Yes Christmas with a baby is cute with them in awe of the twinkly lights and being content with a piece of paper […]
Excuse the biscuit overkill on the blog at the moment. I’m busy with various projects most of which involve lots of biscuit dough and royal icing. I’m using the spare ingredients to play around with. Weddings are like busses here. Nothing since we married 6 […]
Last week I spent a couple of days at Seasoned teaching groups of secondary school children how to bake. This was one of the recipes they made. I chose this recipe as it is a twist on traditional baking and they had to use both […]
I’m the kind of person who walks excitedly down foreign food aisles and am a sucker for any product I’ve never seen for sale in the UK before. I’m the same when I am on holiday. I have to return with foods to try at […]
; Here for the festive season we’re in a bit of limbo. Not sure where we’ll be this year means shockingly I’ve not made of my traditional Christmas cakes or puddings as I may have nowhere to store them. However I wasn’t going to let […]
Biscuits are wonderful from the spicy speculoo to the melt-in-the-mouth Cherry Bakewell biscuit. I’ll also never say no to gaudy pink wafer. For many making biscuits was one of the first things they baked as a child. In my classes children love making biscuits. I […]