Sticky Toffee, Date and Banana Pudding: Weight Watchers featured recipe

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A comforting winter pudding that won’t spoil your new year’s diet resolutions. [Read on...]

Baking with Children: Giant Iced Dinosaur Cookie Project

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Making a giant iced dinosaur cookie. The sugar dough tastes surprisingly appealing and Ted was very pleased with the end result. [Read on...]

How to make panettone with your eyes shut

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Making panettone in the middle of October felt a bit strange but it was a necessity to be prepared to host this month’s Fresh From The Oven. Panettone is a traditional Italian Christmas bake, a bready, eggy, buttery, fruity dome usually sold in a pretty cardboard box. My Florentine housemates introduced me to it [Read on...]

Red Ribbon Cookies: Bake Aware with National AIDS Trust

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December 1st is World AIDS Day and the UK’s leading HIV charity dedicated to transforming society’s response to HIV, the National AIDS Trust asked me to spread the message amongst keen home bakers about their fundraiser, Bake Aware. I put together these sparkly red ribbon cookies… they remind me of Dorothy’s shoes in the [Read on...]

Get set for Christmas! Miele Food for Gifts Class

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Around this time each year I attempt to become Martha Stewart, vowing to make more of my Christmas gifts so I was delighted to be invited alongside Helen of Fuss Free Flavours to the Miele Experience Gallery in London for a day making Food for Gifts. [Read on...]

Giveaway #25: Mich Turner goodies (CLOSED) …and making Christmas Pudding Cake Pops

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Made with fruit cake and dipped in Green & Black’s Maya Gold chocolate, Christmas Pudding Cake Pops are a bite size treat you can share with your friends throughout December. [Read on...]

Baking with kids: product round up

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I have a new lens for my camera. This possibly not the most obvious way to introduce you to it but I am still getting to “know” it and experimenting taking pictures of my latest cake decorating booty seems a good plan! Dr Oetker Shimmer Sugar First up, various Dr Oetker products; this canister [Read on...]

Spice up your autumn with orange spice upside down cake!

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Orange, yellow, brown leaves crunching under foot, mist in the air, the smell of bonfire smoke and the fizz bang of fireworks. There’s no mistaking autumn has arrived, even if we’ve just had the mildest October in memory. [Read on...]

Baking with Children: Perfect Pudsey Bear cookies

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We’ve had our dry run for BBC Children in Need 2011! Actually our trick or treaters enjoyed these last week so we’ll have to make some more in time for November 18. [Read on...]

Forever Nigella #9 round up: Halloween horrors!

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Whilst you’re still in your beds sleeping off a bonfire induced hangover, I’ll slip in with this witchy round up of Forever Nigella entries. [Read on...]

Quince and Amaretto Bakewell Tart: a blast from the past

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This is a blast from the past for me; I baked this tart two years ago and somehow it slipped under the radar never managing to be published when quinces were in season for two years in a row. I am pleased to put this right today! [Read on...]

Chocolate Dipped Apples: perfect for Bonfire Night

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As well as the more worthy intention of getting one’s child to eat fruit, this treat also enables you to have a clear out of any last bits of cupcake sprinkles you are either a) sick of the sight of or [Read on...]

Steak and kidney mini pies… perfect fare for Bonfire Night!

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and in particular the little pies on the cover. Using a 12 hole muffin tin they’re the dimensions of little pork pies and it amazes me it’s never occurred to me before to use the same tin for pies. [Read on...]

Fancy going to Flower School?

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Are you fanatical about all things floral? Do you have a passion for pansies, petunias and poppies? If so then budding florists in Wolverhampton to Aberdeen should give serious consideration to popping down to the inaugural Interflora Flower School later this year. [Read on...]

Evil Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes

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The more evil a pumpkin the better so far as I’m concerned. Outrageously for a blog with the word “cupcake” in the title, unless I’m mistaken, these are the first cupcakes to feature on here in eleven months. I’m fairly ambivalent about cupcakes these days and have agonised with changing the name of the [Read on...]

Recipe: Pear and Ginger Spelt Muffins

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Ted and I have spent a lot of time in the kitchen during half term – albeit at the expense of a hideously overflowing in-box that’s going to have to wait until next week. Baking with children I must admit I am enjoying that he’s getting to the age where he can sort of [Read on...]

Recipe: Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

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Note to self; I must, must, must stock up on pumpkin puree whilst it’s in season. It amazes me something in cans should be “in season” but pumpkin puree is non existent in most supermarkets for ten and a half months of the year and costs a fortune on Amazon. Libby’s is the best [Read on...]

Warning: Writing a book can cause cobwebs to build up on your blog

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It’s alright, I have not, incase you were wondering, fallen off the edge of a cliff. I have as those you on Twitter will have gathered, been in the final stages of writing a book! It will be published next summer and I’ll give you all the wonderful details about it in due course. [Read on...]

Pink ribbon cookies for a Breakthrough for breast cancer fundraiser

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October is not just for Hallowe’en but also breast cancer awareness month for the charity Breakthrough. Breast cancer is a devasting disease for women (and sometimes men) and their families; the earlier it is detected, the greater the likelihood of survival. Breakthrough believe this disease can be beaten by fighting on three fronts; research, [Read on...]

Gluten Free Blackberry Blondies inspired by Leila Lindholm

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As promised in my review of Leila Lindholm’s One More Slice, here is my version of her white chocolate blondies. Leila frequently gives readers a basic recipe with half a dozen variations – her original blondies were white chocolate but she gave an option with raspberries instead. Since I was making these after a [Read on...]

Forever Nigella #9: Halloween Horrors

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She’s back! I’ve been touched how many people have tweeted and emailed to ask where Forever Nigella had disappeared to. The truth is that despite having a stack of volunteers waiting to host, I have been too organise to liaise with everyone to set who does which month, which theme and then crack whip [Read on...]

Four ladies and a croquembouche

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Four ladies making croquembouche in front of a TV film crew. [Read on...]

Recipe: Grandaddy’s apple and forest fruit crumble

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Now crumble isn’t rocket science but when you’re only four, it’s nice to have a dish that you feel like you’ve made all by yourself. [Read on...]

Recipe: Mini fig galettes and a ten year anniversary

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Back home I’m more reliant on my local Turkish supermarket but I can never cut into a fresh fig without remembering this moment. [Read on...]

Video review: Snog Healthy Treats Cookbook

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Packed with frozen yogurt, gluten free baking, drinks and raw food treats this book is full of surprisingly appealing healthy goodies. [Read on...]

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    Valentine’s treat using Renshaw’s red Ready to Roll coloured icing.


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    Two limited edition Valentine’s cupcake flavours available from Peggy Porschen Parlour, Belgravia:

    Strawberry & Champagne and Chocolate Raspberry Kiss make the perfect cupcake couple for Valentine’s Day. Cupcakes priced at £3.50 each, available to pre-order for collection online at www.peggyporschen.com from February 1st 2012.


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