It’s only on special occasions that I bake big cakes here. I was asked to bake a special cake for my Mother-in-Law’s 60th birthday. The original brief was a sugarpaste creation, but time limitations didn’t allow this, then I remembered the cake that Lorraine Pascale…
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…
After being together for 11 years and married for 6 we don’t really need to celebrate Valentine’s Day however that does not stop me insisting we have to make a token gesture on the day. Previous years we’ve dined on oysters at River Cottage (ok I lie,…
; 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…
This isn’t a fancy birthday birthday cake, just a simple colour flecked sponge with a good dose of chocolate. Given it was my sister’s last birthday before the big three-zero I decided she needed a colourful cake, reminiscent of the birthday cakes we used to have…
A few years ago I made an alternative Simnel Cake that wasn’t really traditional apart from the inclusion of dried fruit and marzipan. This year after making baked bean tin Christmas Cake I decided to use the same method to make two mini Simnel Cakes.…