Hi everyone! Happy Easter! I hope that you are all ok, despite the difficult times we are living in at the moment. I am trying to keep busy despite the quarantine and am doing as much as I can to help where I can. My blog has been neglected again recently but I need to…
Category: Seasonal and Celebration Cakes
Panforte- The Great British Bake Off Christmas.
Friday 22nd December 2017. Panforte is a traditional Italian delicacy which is usually eaten with coffee after a meal. It is full of dried fruit, nuts and spices and baked in the oven on rice paper. A little piece goes a long way as it is very rich. I had tried some Panforte one Christmas…
The Great British Bake Off Christmas- Tunis Cake
Friday 15th December 2017. I must admit I hadn’t a clue what the origin of a Tunis Cake was. Mary Berry had made one on one of her and Paul Hollywood’s original Great British Bake Off Masterclass programmes from a couple of years back. I remember having a go at making one myself after seeing…
The Great British Bake Off Christmas- Peanut Butter, Popcorn and Chocolate Fudge Torte.
Monday December 11th 2017. Gosh, this seems like a long time ago now but the last two weeks before Christmas were so busy. I didn’t have time to get updated with my blogging. Anyway, here we are just after Christmas and I’m sat on the sofa typing this feeling like a beached whale. I haven’t…
The Great British Bake Off Christmas- Rudolph’s Carrot Cake.
Wednesday December 6th 2017. I love a good carrot cake. This version from The Great British Bake Off Christmas book has a special twist to it in that it’s decorated with a reindeer red nose and antlers on the top of it. Although my children are too old for the leaving goodies out for Santa…
The Great British Bake Off Christmas- Mary Berry’s Classic Christmas Cake.
Sunday December 3rd, 2017. Since I gave up baking professionally to concentrate on the day job full time, I’ve had less time to spend on baking things like Christmas cakes. Mr Smartcookiesam says to me every year that I should just go and buy a small one from Marks and Spencer but to me part…
White Chocolate Percy Pig Cake.
This cake was an almalgamation of two recipes which I’ve used plenty of times before. The cake part came from John Whaite’s first book John Whaite Bakes which contains a delicious recipe for a White Chocolate and Raspberry Cake. The decoration idea came from the second Clandestine Cake Club Cookbook A Year Of Cake which…
SmartCookieSam’s Christmas Baking.
I dream about baking and love any excuse to get in my kitchen. But the week before Christmas I just couldn’t get into it. I knew I had lots to make but every time I thought “Right, let’s make that fudge,” something would happen and it would get pushed to the wayside. I started off…
Raspberry and Lemon Love Heart Cake- The Clandestine Cake Club A Year of Cake February Bakealong.
Valentine’s Day to me is a great excuse to bake. I don’t like all the commercialism around Valentine’s Day, though. To me if you want to show someone you love them, its the little things every day, not just on the 14th February. Why wait until the 14th February to buy your loved one a bunch of flowers? They’re…
Raspberry Cranachan Cake- Clandestine Cake Club “A Year Of Cake January Bakealong”
My regular readers might have seen that I’m a member of the Clandestine Cake Club and that last year I was lucky enough to have two recipes published in A Year Of Cake, the second book featuring members’ recipes. Lynn Hill, the founder of the Clandestine Cake Club loves to get members baking. I…
