Valentine’s Day Fairy Cake This is a simple but effective Valentine’s Day themed fairy cake. It is worth buying some nice paper cases to bake your cakes in, I used some red and white polka dot cakes. I started off by baking a batch of my plain fairy cakes. Once cooled I decorated them with some …
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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 …
Recipe: Orange and Passion Fruit Cupcakes
It’s National Cupcake Week! No better excuse for me to put my apron on and start baking, and what a bake I have for you. Orange and Passion Fruit Cupcakes, they have a light fruity and refreshing taste to them. The inspiration for the cakes came to me during a recent shopping trip to a …
Honey and Rose Cupcakes
A recipe from Honey and Rose cakes. I’ve never baked with honey before, so was rather anxious working with this sweet goopy syrupy goodness. It was also the first time I have used the bottle of rose water I bought a month ago. This recipe is heavy on the honey and as such I think it …
Local Food Festival – Shropshire’s Best
On Saturday morning I popped out to browse around a local food festival organised and held by Greenfields Farm Shop in Muxton, Shropshire. There were many lovely craft and food stalls representing the local area, I got tempted to pull my camera out a few times for you to share some of my lovely finds. …
Halloween Red Velvet Cakes and Ghost Meringues
If you’re of a nervous disposition look away now, or be prepared to be scared silly. OK, so you’ve chosen the scared silly option – good choice. For Halloween this year I decided to make some spooky cupcakes, and for the first time I made Red Velvet cupcakes. I used the recipe from …
