Would I like to bake a Showstopper Cake? The lovely people at Home Bargains have sent me a selection of some of their great products so I can get involved with the #GBBO craze and bake my very own Showstopper cake. I turned to my Great British Bake Off book and had a flick through …
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A cake, a mug and a giveaway!
Cake and a cuppa and a to do list in the making! How do you like my mug, do you remember back in 2013 the year of the Olympics and Jubilee I made a very patriotic Union Jack cake. Well a few weeks ago I entered a competition (I do that quite a bit) to …
Lemon Madeira Cake with Raspberries Recipe
This Lemon Madeira cake with raspberries turned out to be the perfect choice for a travelling birthday cake. It needed to make it safely from Shropshire to South Devon during the recent heatwave we experienced. I felt a standard sandwich cake with butter cream would not fair well in the heat. I tweaked a standard …
Letterbox Cake from Baker Days – Giveaway (closed)
Letterbox Cake It is giveaway time again! Thanks to the generosity of Baker Days who are offering one lucky blog reader the chance to win their very own personalised Letterbox cake. You can find out more about Letterbox cakes by reading my review of the carrot cake I received. There is agreat selection of cakes designs to …
Sweetie Birthday Cake
Sweetie Cake During my Devon holiday, my niece was seven years old which obviously called for a birthday cake. Nothing to complicated or time-consuming as we were after all on our holidays, and given the heatwave we were experiencing a hot kitchen was the last place I wanted to be in. I suggested that a …
Baker Days Letterbox Cake – Review
Baker Days – are a company situation on the edge of Sherwood Forest, who’s aim it is to make beautiful cakes that taste just as you have made them yourself and deliver them anywhere in the UK by the next day. I confess to being a little sceptical at the thought of having a cake delivered through …
Strawberry Bundt Cake
For sometime now I have been admiring the wonderful Bundt cakes created by Rachel at DollyBakes. Since December a shiny new Bundt tin has been sitting in the cupboard waiting to be used, and I spotted the perfect recipe the Springtime Strawberry Bundt at DollyBakes. I halved Rachel’s original recipe as my tin was half the …
My Blogger Word Cloud
Do you like my wonderful word cloud, apparently I have a lot to say on my blog when it comes to Cake. Previously I have always thought about my blog posts individually, where as this magical tool gives me the chance to take a snapshot of what I have been saying on my blog from the …
Vintage Inspired Christmas Bauble Cake
Vintage Inspired Christmas Bauble Cake At the beginning of December a friend and I attended a cake decorating course, to make the exquisite Vintage Inspired Christmas Bauble Cake you see above. It was a full day course run by the very talented Louise Scofield, I’ve been on a few cake courses in the past and I …
Fairy Cakes Recipe a Baking Essential
A Fairy Cake recipe is a simple but essential cake recipe for every baker. This humble plain cake can be transformed into a perfect masterpiece adorned with butter cream and sculptured sugar paste creations. Or an hour of messy fun for children and adults alike. Below is my favourite basic essential fairy cake recipe. Fairy …