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Get Into Baking – It’s A Piece Of Cake

04/12/2017

Get Into Baking – It’s A Piece Of Cake

Image Source Baking is a hobby that anyone can get into. You don’t need all the time and patience in the world to make it work – it’s one of the few hobbies that you can get kids involved with and the reward is tasty baked food that you can enjoy there and then. Here are a few steps that you can take get into baking. Get kitted out There are a few vital pieces of kit that you may need to stock up on. These include scales, mixers, measuring beakers and baking paper depending on the type of food that you’re making. There are baking kits out there from companies like HobbyCraft with all ... read more

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Baking Biscuits with Bacofoil and their Non-Stick Baking Paper

16/10/2017

Baking Biscuits with Bacofoil and their Non-Stick Baking Paper

If you follow me on Instagram you'll know that I do a fair bit of baking. Especially of biscuits. My late Gran's ginger biscuit recipe is well known locally as they've been enjoyed at numerous WI, school governor and other committee meetings over the years. I was thrilled therefore to see an invitation pop into my inbox from Bacofoil to join a baking masterclass with Great British Bake Off Quarter finalist Benjamina Ebuehi where we would be creating her new white chocolate and coconut cookies using Bacofoil's non-stick baking paper. Over the years I've been lucky enough to meet a few bake ... read more

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The Great British Bake Off Range at Debenhams #GBBO

26/10/2016

The Great British Bake Off Range at Debenhams #GBBO

Who doesn't love the Great British Bake Off? With the series 7 final tonight, it's fair to say that this year there's probably been more publicity than ever, especially about whether or not Channel 4 have been had by spending millions on a tent and Paul Hollywood. Whatever happens in future years the Bake Off (and Mary Berry in particular) will always be a British tradition as far as I am concerned. Although ironically WI meetings always seem to clash with when it is on live, I do make sure I see each week's show and make a real point of staying off social media until I get to catch up so I ... read more

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Christmas Sticky Toffee Pudding – baking with Whitworths and Edd Kimber

23/11/2015

Christmas Sticky Toffee Pudding – baking with Whitworths and Edd Kimber

It's not often that I get to spend my Saturday in the kitchen with a winner of the Great British Bake Off, but that's exactly what I got to do this weekend, thanks to Whitworths. Edd Kimber won the first bake off back in 2010 and this year he's teamed up with Whitworths, those people who bring us all the fruit and nut ingredients that you use in your baking, to develop an alternative to the traditional Christmas pudding. Now, I should start by saying that I love Christmas pudding and I was therefore intrigued to see what Edd had come up with, especially as he claimed not to like ... read more

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Jaffa Cake Cupcakes with HomeSense and #RaiseSomeDough

08/02/2015

Jaffa Cake Cupcakes with HomeSense and #RaiseSomeDough

It can't have escaped your attention that Red Nose Day is back for 2015 and come Friday 13th March there will be people up and down the country wearing red noses and doing something funny for charity. My big bit this year is going to be the Comic Relief Danceathon that I'm taking part in the weekend before - please sponsor me here, hint hint! I'm more than a bit scared at the idea of 6 hours of dancing, especially as at the moment I'm into week two of some flu like thing that's really knocked me for six and stopped all my running too. Comic Relief isn't just about physical stuff though. ... read more

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How to make flowerpot bread

09/01/2015

How to make flowerpot bread

I do love it when the kids get slightly unusual Christmas presents and one of Little Miss C's uncles really came up trumps this year (not that the other two uncles didn't, if you're reading, as the kids love all their presents too thank you!) with a flowerpot bread making kit. Flowerpot bread you may think - what on earth? The idea's quite simple really. You make bread, but rather than put it in a traditional bread tin or on a baking tray in the oven, you instead bake it in terracotta flowerpots. It's incredibly easy to do and a great activity to do with kids, so here's my how to ... read more

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North Riding Loaf

18/11/2013

As a follow on from the Great Bloggers Bake Off those of us that were involved whilst the Great British Bake Off was on telly are continuing to bake and blogging about it. I'm very much playing catch up, but finally this last week have found time to use some gorgeous smelling mixed spices that I was sent by Steenbergs. After having a look at the recipes on their website I was rather taken by their recipe for North Riding Loaf (which seems to have now been renamed on there as North Riding Bread). Now this isn't a bread in the true sense of the word, but more of a tea cake. What really ... read more

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Halloween Cupcake Decorating Workshop

03/11/2013

I was delighted to manage to get myself a place on Heaven is a Cupcake's latest cupcake decorating workshop - a special Halloween themed one. I've enjoyed Lucy's cupcakes for a while now and am always admiring photos of her amazing works of art that she regularly posts on her Facebook page. Ever since my attempts to make Thomas the Cake for Little Miss C's 3rd birthday I thought I'd better do something to up my game before I need to make the next one. Heaven is a Cupcake run regular evening decorating workshops here in St Albans and I've always heard good things about ... read more

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Great Bloggers Bake Off Week 5 – Rocky Road

20/09/2013

There's been a bit of a gap in my involvement in the bake off, mainly due to all the stresses and extra work involved in LMC starting pre-school, Master C starting nursery and Mr C starting a new job - all in the same week! Week 5 is tray bakes and biscuits though and that's exactly my thing. Now, I first blogged about this recipe way way back in 2008, not long after I started blogging. I still make it regularly and still say it is one of the nicest things ever! The recipe originally came from Nigella Lawson, although I have to say that I have absolutely no confirmation as to to which ... read more

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Great Bloggers Bake Off Week 2 – Pain Au Chocolat

30/08/2013

As if Grainy Mustard and Beer Loaf wasn't enough I today came up with my second recipe for week 2 of the Great Bloggers Bake Off - this time Pain Au Chocolat. Again the original recipe came from Bread Machine by Jennie Shapter, but this required much, much more work! This is what you need: 125ml water 250g strong white bread flour 2 tbsp skimmed milk powder 1 tbsp caster sugar 1/2 tsp salt 140g soft butter 1 1/2 tsp dried yeast 225 plain chocolate, broken into pieces You'll also require 1 egg yolk and 1 tbsp milk for the glaze. To start with you put the water, flour, milk powder, ... read more

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