Recipe 94: Devil’s Food Cake

Hello! You may have noticed that I seem to have been posting a lot of recipes over the past couple of days, well being away from the usual day-t0-day things give you the chance to catch up with things like blogging. Being on holiday didn't even stop me watching the GBBO final on Wednesday - …

Recipe 92: Courgette Loaves

Hello everyone, I am coming to you live from Lanzarote! It's very hot and sunny, which is very different (so I am told) about the weather back home...we had a nightmare journey here. Flying with BA, you generally expect no troubles with the plane, however, we were sat on the runway waiting for an engineer …

Recipe 90: Apple & Cinnamon Cake

  Good morning all! Last Sunday was finally the day of the Run to the Beat 10km challenge, after months of training, we ventured to Wembley Park with the hope of raising a lot of money for Macmillan. Although I walked up the hills and during certain parts of the route, I sprinted to the finish …

Recipe 89: Easter Simnel Cake

Obviously Easter has been and gone and is a distant memory now, but because it has been such long time since I blogged a recipe, I thought it would be a good idea to get on with it! I have missed baking my way through the Baking Bible, so I had to start back from …

Recipe 86: American spiced carrot traybake

Happy weekend everyone! I hope many of you are thinking of doing some baking this weekend, even I am planning to make some of Mary's hot cross buns (guilty treat). Since I've not eaten anything naughty for 2 weeks (and have lost 4lbs  - woo!) I think it's about time don't you? Carrot cake is …

Recipe 85: Hot chocolate (messy) soufflés

Hello everyone! I'm posting this in celebration of finishing one of uni assignments, leaving me with a case study and my dissertation to write, then that's it...degree done! (Anyone want to hire me?!) I had been wanting to make these for ages, every time I'd go to the pudding section of the book, I'd see …

Recipe 84: Treacle Spice Traybake

I made this a couple of weeks ago but since I've been so busy, I hadn't had time to blog it for all of you, my lovely readers. As you are aware, I am on a bit of a 'no cake' allowed couple of weeks but since this was before I started, I can say …

Lemon, Lime and Coconut Drizzle Loaf: Mackay’s Marmalade March

Hello everyone, the new week is upon us and to kick start it off, I've got a wonderful recipe for you. Recently, the lovely people at Mackays sent me a selection of marmalade in order to come up with something to celebrate the month of march and of course, marmalade. I've never been a great …

Recipe 83: Special fruit scones

Scones, for me, really are the staple of the afternoon tea experience, wouldn't you agree? If done right, they're light and fluffy; when warm and served with lashings of cream and jam, it's really something you don't want to miss. We all know they're naughty, we all know that we should have one instead of two but, …

Recipe 81: Classic Sticky Gingerbread

I had been wanting to make this cake for such a long time but had never got around to it, and when I finally did, it didn't disappoint. This has been devoured by my family and definitely enjoyed! It keeps for quite a while too when in an airtight container. It has a strong taste …