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Olympic Torch Tower Cake

Go Team GB! Olympic Torch Tower Cake something of a surprise entry to this month Olympic Calendar Cakes. After making a sponge cake using a different recipe, heavens knows why I have a perfectly good reliable recipe I usually use. The sponge was something of a disappointment and was best used in a trifle. However …

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Olympic Calendar Cake

It’s here, at last London 2012 Olympic Games has arrived. So with an Olympic sized celebration planned for at work on opening ceremony day, what other contribution could I make than a cake. I made a standard vanilla sponge, butter cream and jam and topped with some magical sugar paste Olympic rings. I had planned …

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Seaside Cake

Yay, last week my niece was 6 years old and I got to bake her a birthday cake. My mission was to bring the seaside to Shropshire. I’d been planning the cake for a little while, I’d bought some shell moulds and lustre dust from the Telford Sugarcraft Show  back in May. The Seaside Cake …

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Shropshire Diamond Jubilee Pageant

Last week, after months of waiting, the much anticipated visit by The Queen to Shropshire as part of her Diamond Jubilee celebrations arrived. The event was being held at RAF Cosford, the perfect location for 30,000 people as every year they have 40,00 spectators at the air show. After days of rain and hope upon …

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Easy Strawberry Jam Recipe

I had picked almost a pound of strawberries from the garden, and there is absolutely nothing I enjoy more than homemade Strawberry Jam. I want to share with you an easy strawberry jam recipe. Easy Strawberry jam recipe Here is a very simple jam recipe. You will find that there is not even a large metal pan or thermometer …

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Mini Gooseberry Tarts Recipe

The Gooseberry bush in the garden is now bare and the lovely hairy green berries have been sitting in a bowl in the kitchen, waiting my attention. Here is my wonderfully simple recipe for rustic looking Mini Gooseberry Tarts.  Gooseberry Tarts Recipe Mini Gooseberry Tarts Recipe Pastry 8oz Plain Flour 4oz Butter Tablespoon caster sugar Filling  …