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Baking and Blogging in Ascot
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Chocolate and Vanilla Mini Cupcakes – New Year’s Resolution size
So Christmas is long gone but all the eating and drinking has taken its toll. New Year’s Resolutions lists are just long – most of them involving diets! So here is the answer to having your cake and eating it… Read More ›
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Chocolate Birthday Cake – with extra chocolate
My “baby” boy was 8 years old on January 1st. I can’t believe how the time has passed – it’s almost long enough to look back on his birth without reliving the horror all over again! As he shares his… Read More ›
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Blackcurrant Trifle – a reminder of summer
Those of you who have been following my blog for a while will know that fruit picking is one of my favourite summer time pastimes (yes, my life really is that exciting!). This year the weather was so terrible there… Read More ›
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Birthday Cake with Blue Flowers
For my Mum’s birthday this year we thought we would pay her a surprise visit. My Dad was in on the secret and had to manoeuvre her round to deciding that it would be better to go out for dinner… Read More ›
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Reality Blog Award Nomination
I have to thank Fae, of Fae’s Twist and Tango, very much for nominating me for the Reality Blog Award. Fae always has an interesting story to tell, or a recipe or insight to share. The rules of this award… Read More ›
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Sloe Gin revisited – and Happy Christmas to all!
I made loads of sloe gin in the autumn with the express intention of giving it as presents. So I have been really pleased with how well it has turned out and how beautiful it looks in proper sloe gin… Read More ›
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Mini Christmas Cupcakes
It’s really easy to transform your favourite cupcake recipe into a Christmas cupcake, you just need the right cases and toppings. I made some mini vanilla and mini chocolate cupcakes in some festive cases and used some holly green sugarpaste to… Read More ›
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Beautiful Blogger Award Nomination
With apologies for taking so long to pass this on, thank you very much to Maria-Teresa of Sugar and Spice Baking, for so kindly nominating me for the Beautiful Blogger Award. Her blog is always interesting so if you don’t… Read More ›
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Gingerbread Wreath Cake – perfect for Christmas coffee mornings
Blogs feature highly on my “to do” list these days, either for writing posts or reading other people’s. There are definitely not enough hours in the day to read or write all the posts I would like to, and one of the… Read More ›
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Sunshine Blog Award Nomination
Another post that needs to start with an apology! Teresa, of Can’t Stay out of the Kitchen, very kindly nominated me for the Sunshine Blog Award ages ago and I have really been taking my time in passing it on…. Read More ›
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