Rice and “curry”: a Ted-shaped milestone Two things have been different for me since New Year; blogging more regularly and Ted going to preschool twice a week – see how the two are connected? Last week, the week where I was exhausted after the three charity cupcake sales, was half term and although Ted [Read on...]
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Gel food colouring has infinitely improved my confidence making icing. After the problems I’d had getting the right colours when making the Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake, I decided to invest in some gel food colouring. Mine are little pots of Wilton gel food colouring which come in a box of eight colours. They [Read on...] Sharing how to make a hungry caterpillar cake has been a few weeks coming but I hope you’ll agree it’s worth the wait. This Very Hungry Caterpillar cake was my first creation for a stranger. Someone emailed a picture making a very hungry caterpillar cake showing a large cake for the caterpillar’s head and [Read on...] “Gravy in cupcakes?” my husband cried. Well. Crazier things have happened… Saturday was, shall we say, a tad busy. It was “Caterpillar Day”, when I did my first ever baked-for-a-stranger cake. I keep taunting you but there will be a full post on the Very Hungry Caterpillar after Christmas. Lots of you have been [Read on...] I’ve seen the light. In November it is very definitely outside. Most of these pictures were taken outdoors, my first time photographing food in the garden. Given the gloom indoors on even the sunniest day, I am really pleased with these pictures and will be heading out there to snap away in my hat [Read on...] During last week when my husband and I had flu, we didn’t eat a great deal and I found myself faced with a fruit bowl full of spotty bananas. Some sort of cake seemed to be the way to go with them and after consulting my books I came up with these Sticky Banoffee [Read on...] 
Passionfruit, chocolate and cream are a heavenly trio in this cake recipe using carrots. Casting directors, as my husband is fond of reminding me, have a habit of choosing Brummies for characters a bit slow on the uptake. A regular Fast Show sketch featured middle class people discussing the hoi polloi when the least brightest [Read on...] 
Eggplant recipes and chocolate cake are not normally something you’d expect to find in the same sentence but the beautiful cake you see above is made with aubergine (or eggplants depending what you call them). The Heartache Chocolate Cake, featured in Harry Eastwood’s Red Velvet Chocolate Heartache claims to be the new healthier way [Read on...] 
You may be familiar with Harry Eastwood from her Channel 4 series, “Cook Yourself Thin”. Her book Red Velvet Chocolate Heartache is full of cakes made from vegetables. I’m not going for obvious Hallowe’en references this year but I can promise you this blog post features bleeding and stabbing. If you can’t face the full [Read on...] 
Can pumpkin puree be used to make frosting for cupcakes? Absolutely.See below how I was inspired by this Harry Eastwood (of Cook Yourself Thin) recipe. Going away on holiday is terribly inconvenient when you’re a food blogger. In the last month I’ve had both a weekend away to Provence and a week in Montenegro. In [Read on...] You know that feeling you get after having taken some exams and you get home and don’t know what to do with yourself? I feel a bit like that this afternoon. My house is suitably de-cluttered after this morning’s yard sale and I am not pressurising myself to make any more cake this weekend. [Read on...] I have been very quiet this week. My dad has been staying in the spare room where computer is so I’ve not been able to get on here first thing in the morning when I do most of my blogging. Earlier in the week I made this batch of mini cupcakes following in the [Read on...] I should come clean. It’s now the fifteenth of the month I have not yet posted one recipe yet from my monthly Bake Five challenge. This month I am cooking from Donna Hay’s “Modern Classics: Book 2 ” subtitled “Cookies, Biscuits, Slices, Small Cakes, Cakes, Desserts, Hot Puddings, Pies and Tarts” but I have [Read on...] 
This month I have been baking five recipes from Rachel Allen’s Bake. This time I have baked red velvet cake for the first time. Although this is my last Bake Five blog using Rachel Allen’s Bake, I can honestly say that I will go out and buy this book. It’s been a while since I [Read on...] Now I don’t want you to eat seventeen of these cupcakes, it is the name of the shop they came from. My local deli is called Eat17 since we live in the postcode East 17. Quite a few of my friends have been asking whether I’ve tried the cupcakes in Eat17 so I have [Read on...] Here we have the vanilla and chocolate cake mixtures for yesterday’s Bake Five Rachel Allen recipe. As I explained there, I had too much mixture for the tin I was using so I kept back some mixture and put it into six cupcake cases. They would be a gift for Josie’s 2nd birthday, who [Read on...] 
The third installment of five recipes I am baking from Rachel Allen’s Bake . Today it is Chocolate & Vanilla Marble Cake. The recipes in Rachel Allen’s Bake are for quite large sizes of cake. Here an 8 inch springform pan was required but I only had a 7 inch one to hand. I [Read on...] I say #1 as I know three Marthas who are all 2 years old. I have promised my friends each a batch of cupcakes with their child’s name on them – fortunately everyone’s names have six letters or less so they will fit into these plastic boxes. Today is Martha’s birthday and we are meeting [Read on...] 
This month I’m baking five recipes from Rachel Allen “Bake”. I’m hugely fond of recipes using sweet potatoes so my first recipe baked from Rachel Allen’s “Bake” is Sweet Potato and Pecan Bread. It’s called “bread” but is actually a cake in a loaf tin. It was a very easy recipe to follow, however [Read on...] My mother and I are having a shopping mission in Oxford Street today. Our day started in the basement of John Lewis looking at baking equipment and we continued to Divertimenti in Marylebone High Street, then onto Emma Bridgewater and Cath Kidston in Marylebone High Street followed by M&S at Marble Arch and Selfridges. [Read on...] More of the same here except I have used Silver Spoon White Chocolate Cake Covering instead of either ordinary white chocolate or Silver Spoon Milk Chocolate Cake Covering. I like topping cakes with chocolate as you don’t have to faff about getting the consistency of icing correct. So it is nice and quick for practising [Read on...] Today’s batch are for my Big Lunch girlfriends who are coming round tonight to celebrate our successful Big Lunch Street Party on 19th July. These cakes have a chocolate base and are presented in gold foil cases. On the top I have used Silver Spoon Milk Chocolate Cake Covering. It doesn’t taste so good as [Read on...] The Big Lunch cupcakes were all polished off and I had invited several friends round promising them left over cake. So I had to make some more. I flavoured them with lemon and coloured the icing pale yellow. There were very pretty but I forgot to photograph them and these disappeared quickly too. The [Read on...] Today is the day when things finally came together. Although I had been up early helping make sure cars were removed from the street, moving my table onto the pavement and collecting a bulk order of sausages from the local butcher, it was not until 11.30 that it was time to put out my [Read on...] |
 
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