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Baking and Blogging in Ascot

• Blackberry Muffins

  By lovinghomemade on September 14, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  When I have a freshly picked heap of blackberries I tend to look at them and think either crumble or jam. This year I have decided to try to be a little more diverse and it struck me that not… Read More ›

• Say it with Cake – 70th Birthday Cake

  By lovinghomemade on September 12, 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  A friend recently invited me for a delicious Afternoon Tea at Pennyhill Park, which is a beautiful country house hotel in Surrey. We had a really lovely afternoon drinking tea, eating cake and chatting; I started at the bottom of the three… Read More ›

• Strawberries and Cream Cake – a farewell to the Summer

  By lovinghomemade on September 10, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Here in the UK the summer seemed to arrive at the same time as the autumn last week. Finally, just as the nights started drawing in and the mornings began to bring with them a different quality of light and the… Read More ›

• Vanilla Party Cupcakes – Hummingbird Bakery Style

  By lovinghomemade on September 9, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  I love the Hummingbird Bakery cookbook and often turn to it for recipes, inspiration and sometimes just to cheer myself up because it is such a beautiful book to look through. I haven’t made it to one of the bakeries… Read More ›

• Banana and Cranberry Bread

  By lovinghomemade on September 7, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  This is really a cake mixture baked in a bread tin that slices like a loaf. It is delicious with a cup of tea or coffee. All you need is a bowl, a set of scales and a loaf tin…. Read More ›

• Quick and Easy Chocolate Birthday Cake

  By lovinghomemade on September 6, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Sometimes in life the simplest things are the best. A simple chocolate sponge with chocolate buttercream is the perfect birthday cake and it’s what I remember from birthday cake growing up. This is a three tier chocolate sponge cake sandwiched… Read More ›

• Courgette Linguine – or how to use up this season’s vegetables

  By lovinghomemade on September 5, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  I do my best to grow vegetables every summer and last year I had so many courgettes I hardly knew what to do with them. This year I didn’t manage to plant as many vegetables and those that I did… Read More ›

• Homemade Blackberry and Apple Crumble – Autumn is on its way

  By lovinghomemade on September 3, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  I belong to a gym where I tend to do yoga and pilates classes and laze around in the pool, jacuzzi and steam room. I rarely actually go to the gym itself because if I go running I would rather be… Read More ›

• Butterfly Birthday Cakes

  By lovinghomemade on September 2, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  I always have a book on the go; sometimes it’s “proper” literature and sometimes it’s good old-fashioned Chick lit. My all time favourite Chick lit heroine has to be Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) of the Shopaholic series and I was… Read More ›

• Birthday Present Cake

  By lovinghomemade on September 1, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Today I will be mostly mopping the kitchen floor, in an attempt to rid it of the layers of icing sugar that have built up over the last couple of days. I have been making birthday cakes – a 40th,… Read More ›