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 ›
Baking
Banana and Cranberry Bread
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
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 ›
Homemade Blackberry and Apple Crumble – Autumn is on its way
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
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
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 ›
Lemon Cake Bars
Too many cakes, too little time. I needed something to take to a friend’s house for an informal morning meeting and my first thought is always chocolate cake. I thought that might be a bit heavy for first thing on a summery… Read More ›
Granary and Walnut Bread
I have mentioned bread baking in a previous post and we are now back from our week in France spent eating delicious baguette and artisan breads. While you can’t beat baguette made in France, I am excited about being able to… Read More ›
Homemade crêpes at Keranmeriet
We are staying, as we do every year, in Brittany in one of the gîtes built and run by some friends who moved here nearly ten years ago. The place is a rural retreat; 100 acres set in beautiful Breton… Read More ›
Eton Mess
I made a Key Lime Pie to take to a party the other day – that will have to wait for the next time I make it as I don’t have a good photo, mainly due to forgetting to save… Read More ›
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