Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful festive break and thoroughly stuffed yourself with mince pies, ham, cold turkey and cheese – I know I did! Oh wait … I forgot one thing, delicious gingerbread cake of course. Three layers of deliciously moist gingerbread cake smothered with salted caramel buttercream, topped with […]
Luxury all butter mince pies

This weekend we had a extra special, early Christmas Day at our friends Jess and Ross’ house. We had the works; roast, crackers, games, chocolates, homemade mince pies and the compulsory Christmas day mini argument ( Tim fell asleep during games time, I wasn’t happy!). Jess had never made all butter mince pies before so […]
3D Gingerbread Christmas tree

I have seen a few lovely 3D Christmas trees on twitter and social media this year and wanted to give it a go. So when I was contacted by Renshaw to take part in their Christmas campaign I jumped at the chance and thought a gingerbread Christmas tree would be the perfect bake. I bought […]
Salted caramel cupcakes with a salted caramel buttercream

As some of you may know I am obsessed with everything salted caramel but I have never made it myself, so I decided I would give it a go! I love the Cupcake Jemma Youtube channel and she made some delicious cupcakes on her site so I decided to use her recipe for both the […]
Review: Andrew James piping set

I recently asked my Twitter family to recommend a beginners piping set as I don’t have one and I am looking to ‘up my icing game’. The lovely people at Andrew James then sent me a set to review which was very exciting!! I decided to make some salted caramel cupcakes to test my new set. […]
The ultimate sticky toffee pudding

I have eaten A LOT of sticky toffee pudding in my 26 years but this recipe produces the most irresistibly moist and sticky pud I have tried. The best bit about it – you can have as much toffee sauce as you want – nothing worse than being rationed to toffee sauce in a restaurant. […]
Christmas pavlova wreath

Ok, before anyone says anything, its November so we are now officially allowed to talk about CHRISTMAS!! It really is the most wonderful time of year and this year I was contacted by Wren Kitchens to get involved with ‘Wren’s Christmas Kitchen’ campaign. Of course I said yes, any excuse to start getting festive. I […]
How Mr Owl taught me to be a better baker

Meet Mr Owl. A delicious, spongy, moist chocolate owl cake covered in chocolate butter cream and lots of yummy owl decorations. Oh and of course, all his yummy chocolate cupcake friends. This was by far the hardest bake I have done but I definitely learnt a few things along the way. I made this cake […]
The best carrot cake traybake with walnuts and cream cheese frosting

The Great British Bake Off is back and week one is CAKES! So to celebrate I thought I would bake my favourite cake, carrot cake. I love carrot cake and would always choose it in a cafe however I think the ratios of carrot cake to cream buy cheap accutane in usa cheese frosting are […]
Chocolate banana bread with a rum cream cheese frosting

In case you didn’t know, the 16th August is National Rum Day. I don’t need an excuse to make a boozy chocolate cake but when its a National celebration I think it would be rude not to. Since making my Gin and tonic loaf, I love the idea of adding a little drop of your favour […]