When I first joined my current workee company I quickly learnt that my new team of colleagues were very receptive to goods of the baked variety. Before I knew what was happening I had been crowned team baker and the cake orders were staking up! So in no particular order here are some of the Read more about Let them eat cake![…]
With Easter and the long weekend (yes!) coming up I thought I’d whip up a tin of Easter biscuits for my colleagues at work. The plan was to do them in Easter shapes, my favourite being the hare below. However there was loads of dough left so the Easter man was born! To make your Read more about The rise of the Easter men![…]
As its valentines day I thought it fitting to do a recipe with a heart theme, these jam tarts are really quick and easy to make yet perfectly yummy, whether you make them for your love, your family, friends or neighbours you’ll definitely want to make more. Ingredients 150g/5oz butter (cut into pieces) 225g/8oz plain Read more about Sweets for my sweets[…]
We wanted a big party this year but with the house still being a bit of a state we decided on Harry Potter and scary cakes at Maddie & Jonny’s. We took the Potter and the fantastic Lilly Vanilli’s A Zombie Stole my Cupcake (Jam bought this for me when we first started dating knowing Read more about Halloween[…]
(First photo Sophie and the amazing cake she made for sports relief, isn’t it pretty???). Life in the house is suprisingly busy of late, I’ve got a comission for 100m of bunting for a friends wedding (they had bunting on the invitations so we are trying to match that, the main colours are candy pink, Read more about creating[…]
This year my work team gained a new member, I was more involved that usual interviewing and training our new recuit. But fantastically she is awesome and a keen baker. So for her birthday I decided to bake for her. I went for death by chocolate (pictured being held by the birthday girl). Sophie had Read more about Sophie’s Birthday cakes[…]
I’ve got a bit of a confession to make. I’ve been attending a writing class for the last two months. I didn’t post about the first meet because it was all very new (and quite scary) and I wasn’t sure I had the nerve to go back (I still don’t really think of myself as Read more about Group 2012 and a breadstick experiment[…]
Claire and I have been friends since about the age of 12, when we kind of fell in with each other (and never really fell out, despite the time she pushed me in the mud, but that’s a different tale…). We were together all through high school, but then college came and we were seperated Read more about Bread with Claire[…]
We had a birthday to celebrate this week as well as Christmas calories to consume, Jam turned 28 (or as he prefers to think about it 18 &10) so I made him a chocolate birthday cake filled with chocolate chips and complete with chocolate icing. The night of his actual birthday we went out for Read more about Many many cakes[…]